It's Just Colorado Peachy

6" x 6" oil on hardboard

Looking for a late night snack one night, I spotted this peach in a beautiful yellow bowl; so I painted it.

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Rockies in June

5" x 7" oil on stretched canvas

This was painted from a photo taken on my daughter's birthday trip. It's the smallest painting with this much detail I have ever attempted. I have only done one other majestic mountain view before and it was for the set of Molly Brown at the Longmont Theatre Company. I remember it being about 16' high by 12' long, and I had to do one on either side of the stage. I resorted to using rollers with very long extension poles; the paint trays were on the floor, I was 9' up a 15' ladder swinging the extension poles up and down for days, what a person gets talked into just to "do that art.thing".

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The Pageant

18" x 24" gray pastel

Another quick study, this one of a clothed model's progression across the room. The finished drawing reminded me of a choir procession or some staged pageantry or festival.

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Walking Nude Study 2

18" x 24" gray pastels

This study brings the figure forward until it almost invades the viewer's space. By darking the shading, intensifying the line work with stronger strokes, and eliminating the head, leaving just the torso, the fourth figure is suddenly aggressive.

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Walking Nude Study

18" x 24" Gray pastel

This is a drawing using gray hard pastels combining four 10 minutes poses. Although overlapping and seemingly translucent, the three left figures come forward by darkening and increasing their size until the third figure's head is off the paper. The fourth figure leaves the group not only because she is turned away but she is on a different plain and her overlapping leg is solid, but the third figure still appears to be forward and crossing behind the fourth because the fourth figure's head and left arm are only suggested. So spacial ambiguity can be such a blast.

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