Oh my goodness.
I just spent four blissful days in Taos, New Mexico.
I went with my two artist friends, Barb Clark and Susana Erling.
We went to paint, eat, relax, sleep, and paint some more.
I made seven paintings, not as many as I wanted, but I
took over 400 reference photos that will be fantastic
subject matter for my 100 painting series, "FOR A SONG."
I will say that when we got to Taos, it was raining.
And cloudy. And beautiful.
I'm showing the images extra large to give you the full effect:
Beautiful New Mexico
Embudo
Looking into Valdez and Taos Ski Valley
El Salto Peak
The mama was telling me not to come any closer
Grazing Horse
Blemenshein Museum flowers
The museum
Cloudy Peaks
Old Church in Arroyo Seco
My favorite old truck
Shades of blue
Susana and her beautiful self
El Salto with clouds and shadows
My first painting
The moon that night
Our scene all evening
One of my cloud paintings
Susana and Barb
Early Chamisa
Mac carrying my paints
A scene of El Salto in a beautiful setting
My start - not done yet
A scene from my relatives' house
Michelle Chrisman painting with us
Barb and her beautiful painting
I found a rainbow!
Last Light
That rainbow is everywhere I go.
Sunset
Sunset around the apple tree
I love the light on this image!
Sunset on the valley
Morning on the mountain
Up a little road
My favorite little stream
I painted it!
Hollyhocks
Hollyhocks
Red-winged black bird in an Arryo Seco marsh
My husband's street name
Barb painting Valdez
Sunset that same evening
All of those light green trees will be golden in October
PLEASE tell me what these flowers are!
An old morada in Valdez
It looks like "Bernado Salazar."
Born 1855
My next car
From Taos you can see Pedernal in Abiquiu!
Pink Hollyhocks
Hollies
Stream in Arroyo Hondo
Hollyhocks in Seco
Hollyhocks and truck
Magpie
Susana painting and Mac playing.
I have enough reference material for a year of studio painting.
But i already want to go back to Taos.
In October!!
More to come.....
The plant looks like Crown Vetch-----a viney(is this a word?) ground cover. I know crown vetch because a variety of it ('Penns Gift') was developed at Penn State University where my husband taught when right out of graduate school.
ReplyDeleteThose hollyhocks are just gorgeous and so are all the other pictures. Grey, cloudy days are underrated and come as a relief amongst all the sunny summer days.
Wonderful photos - and the whole post is very inspirational. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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