County Road #12, #250

Here is one I did a few weeks ago.  This painting in my opinion has it all...  Great light, depth, and balance.  I forget sometimes that paintings need a purpose and I also need to keep ones that do as a reference.
Well enough of that, I am all focused on Fantasy Football.  If my team holds on tonight I'll be in the Championship game..

Beautiful Backlit, # 247

I painted this little beauty on Tuesday.  I have been so busy this week.  I just picked up a new gallery in Phoenix.  I had to frame and get them over to them today.  They don't have their sign up yet, but I'll do a post with all their info soon.  The space is really nice and the gallery owner is wonderful.
I also cut and gessoed about 40 panels for the next months paintings.  We have been getting rain everyday for the past three day, so the gesso is drying verrrry slowww.
Back to the painting, I love the way this turned out.  Trees are so much more interesting to me when light shines through them.  I chose to really pump up the variety of colors in this one.  Thanks for looking.  This one will be up for sell at my online gallery, dailypaintworks.com.

This is an example of how I frame my paintings.  I use plain air style gold leaf frames.  This frame is from Jerry Artarama.  In this 9x12 size, the frame is about $30.  There are many other frame companies that sell plain air gold leaf frames but Jerry's sells this one at the lowest price.  I think they look really nice.  They do sell them in different colors and finishes as well.

Purple Mountains #1

The hardest thing for me about being an artist is trying to come up with snappy titles to my paintings.  I really enjoy painting them but have no clue what to call them when I put my brushes down.  So "Purple Mountain #1" is as good as it gets for now.  I have even thought about just numbering my painting.  That is pretty cool because I could see the progression from my first painting ten years ago.  I think I have painted over 200 painting but I don't really know.
I used a photo reference to paint this one.  The light was intriguing for me.  I especially like the thin slice of light in the foreground.  Check it out in my auction at dailypaintworks.com tomorrow.

Taos Valley Farm #1

I was sifting through some old photos last night, and came across this beautiful pastoral scene.  The photo was not this much fun though.  I increased the size of the cottonwoods and added the structure.  The colors in New Mexico in the fall are a welcomed sight for me.  The only bad part is, it's an early reminded that winter is just around the corner.  New Mexico winters bring way too many months of brown and grey for me.  But, it is great when you get a fresh snow to paint.  The sun is almost always out, making the snow pop.
I live in Scottsdale now and winter is our best time of year.  I look forward to painting outside.  This is a good size painting and it will be up for auction on dpw.com tomorrow probably with my regular starting bid price of $75.  Thanks for reading and join my email list