Longbranch Studio

The road to Bear Lake has some of the most stunning mountain scenery in Colorado. In order to get this one it took some balance and a bit of stupidity as I stood on a hillside falling sharply to the creek. The lighting made it all worth it. Watercolors on paper 14x10”

“The New West” a painting about change, old meets new and the incredibly vast prairie. I had this painting designed for some time before I was ready to paint it.

Recent blog about painting in the field

The Reality of Field Work- A Day in the Mud The reality of field work is mud, bugs, hot, cold, forgetting pieces of equipment, getting your vehicle stuck, paintings tipping over into the dirt, rapidly changing weather and light. So why do it? Well because of photo reference like this: