Showing posts with label sage brush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sage brush. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2019

A Rose in Snow

oil on panel, 6" x 6"

This little abstract palette knife painting is from a few months back; I just never got around to posting it.  There are more than a few others in my inventory that have met that fate.  This painting was inspired by the colors of New Mexico in October, like the rich red of chili peppers you see hanging everywhere in clusters, along with the warm yellow of drying chamisa amongst the cool green sage out on the mesa.  And then there's the snow.  It snowed here in Arroyo Seco on Halloween night, and my backyard has been carpeted in snow ever since.  It snowed again last night.  Everything's white.

Monday, October 8, 2018

San Luis Storefront with Salvia

oil on panel, 9" x 12"

This (mostly) palette knife painting is of a crumbling facade of an old storefront in San Luis, Colorado.  I loved the profusion of salvia, or Russian sage, obscuring all but one window of the storefront, and the cool shape of the facade made me want to paint this perspective.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Taos Mountain from Wisdom Way

oil on panel, 8" x 10"

Another plein air study of Taos Mountain with a modern adobe home in the foreground, amid a field of sage brush.