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June 2022. We started our summer travels in Utah with oranges and blues [...]

2022 Winter-Spring, Daniels Park Series. Up on a ridge, you can see the front range from Pikes Peak to the Snowy Range in Wyoming [...]

We camped in Westcliffe in 2015, 2019, and twice in 2021. Westcliffe lies in Colorado's Wet Mountain Valley, with the Sangre de Cristo Range to the west, and the Wet Mountains to the east [...]

We camped in Silverton in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The town is quiet in the morning until the train whistle echos in the valley [...]

The Arts Afield program at Cherokee Ranch & Castle allows small groups of artists to access various locations on the property. I painted these pieces there in 2020 and 2021 [...]

Everything became a challenge in 2020, and painting was no exception [...]

December 2019. Some of the PAAC groups paint year-round, weather permitting [...]

May 2019. We went to Grand Lake for a PAAC paint-out in conjunction with the Annual Show. [...]

I started painting with a palette knife in 2019 [...]

2014, 2016, and 2018. Plein Air Magazine has hosted an annual Plein Air Convention and Expo (PACE) since 2012 [...]

October 2014. DYAO provided the violin, and I was free to paint it however I wished [...]

May 2014. Spring storms turned the small trickle of a stream behind our house into a raging river [...]

December 2013. It was a semi-warm day and the snow was starting to melt [...]

2012 and 2013. The Golden Triangle Museum District (GTMD) arranged special painting locations in August and September, within the Golden Triangle, and in Denver Mountain Parks along the Lariat Loop [...]

April 2013. PAAC chose Riverside Cemetery for a paint-out. It seemed an odd location to me, but I was pleasantly surprised [...]

April 2013. About as far south as you can go in the United States [...]