Additional paintings from Victor, CO

" Third Street", (right,8x10,oil on canvas), "Abandoned",(below right, 6x8, oil on linen), and "Victor Nocturn #1", (below right, 6x8, oil on linen). As up can see, Victor is a really funky town with lots of great stuff to paint--mining equipment, falling down, abandoned houses and buildings, trailers, treasures, and trash, rusted cars and trucks, and on every street it looks like you are on the set of a movie. Extremely paintable and awesome! A really enjoyable experience complete with all the lovely, giving, beautiful, different, and crazy characters who people the town. Beautiful scenery in the high country of Colorado!

"Shelf Road Composition", (6x8, oil on birch panel), and "Working Mine", (8x10, oil on linen)

Trolley Time, 6x8, oil on canvas

The One I Should Have Entered

Dawn, Moraine Park, 16x20, oil on hardboard

More from Estes Park Plein Air

I was really fascianted with all the dead pines and conifers in Rocky Mtn National Park, especially on the western side of the park. They are really amazing with all the colors in them, depending on how long they have been dead or dying. They range from greys and browns and light tans (the longest dead) to orange, red, pink, lavendar, ochre, burnt sienna, and alizarin crimson (newer). I hope people will come to see the beauty in these trees and look at it as a part of the whole system nature has devised and the continual cycle of birth and death. This environment will look completely different in just a few years, but will still retain a sense of beauty and wonder. There will be many dead, red trees to paint, and I welcome the opportunity to do that.

Beetle Kill Beauty, 16x12, oil on linen Aspen Grove, 8x10, oil on linen

Moraine Park Magic, 6x12, oil on canvas

Rocky Mtn Dry Dock, 12 x16, oil on linen

Special Edition, 8x10, oil on linen