time flies...

Oh my goodness, I haven't blogged since April 19!

That is crazy to me.

Life has gotten busy and I will fill you in

on what's been going on in my artworld.

First off, I am STILL working on my 150 CHALLENGE paintings.

They don't call me the Queen on Procrastination for nothing.

But I will get them done!

Here are some recent 150 CHALLENGE paintings:

 Sandia mountains

 Jemez river

 Abiquiu

I painted for a week in Jemez in early May with the 

Plein Air Painters of New Mexico and loved it!

Jemez is majestic and beautiful.

Pictures really don't do it justice.

These are a couple of the paintings that I created:

 SOLD

The gallery is lovely and run by such nice people.

I will definitely come back to paint soon.

Then, I painted for the Placitas Garden Tour.

Here is the landscape:

And the block-in of one of the paintings I painted.

This painting is SOLD.

Whew, a lot of work.

Next, a group of twelve plein air painters (including myself)

were painting for the 2017 Corrales Garden Tour.

We decided to paint the beautiful village of Corrales 

for the month of May, paint for the Garden Tour,

and have an awesome exhibition at Corrales Fine Arts,

a new gallery from my friends Barb Clark, and Susana Erling.

Here are a few of the sites we painted:

Wow, I have never had such a fun month of painting!

Here are some garden images:

Some of the paintings I completed:

These paintings (along with the gorgeous work of eleven

other artists), are all at Corrales Fine Art,

4685 Corrales Road, through the end of June.

Stop by and have a peek!

Next time, I will chat about

what is coming up this summer and Fall!!

2 daily painting

"AUTUMN ON THE MESA"

6x8"

oil on panel

 Please click on the image to enlarge

I am so happy to be painting daily studies again!

For one thing, they get me motivated to paint, 

which gets me into the studio early.

 They also help me avoid procrastination (which I have loads of).

This is a view of the Algodones plateau from the high mesas of Placitas.

I was painting back on the old Placitas Loop Road, the sky was full

of clouds and I must have shot a million photos.

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Also, please come to visit me this Friday, July 3, at

Sumner and Dene Gallery downtown for the Architecture Show!

The Artist Reception is from 5-8pm.

I have ten paintings in the show and there will be work by some of 

Sumner and Dene's stellar artists.

517 Central Avenue NW, 505-842-1400.

See you then! 

  

ROAD TRIP

Finally, I was able to go on a paint-out, even though it was close by,

to the village of Placitas,

which is about 15 minutes away from my house.

I also went to Algodones and Bernalillo.

Nothing is green yet, but everything was still beautiful to me.

 This are the Algodones plateaus with beautiful winter color.

 A tumbleweed acequia. 

Empty but ready to be cleaned and filled.

 A pretty cross at San Antonio church,

the pretty little old Catholic church in the heart of the village.

I look forward to going again when the roses

are in full bloom.

Looking at the the Placitas Loop road in 

the foreground, the Algodones plateau in the

middle ground, and the Jemez mountains

in the background.

And those clouds!

 A closer look at the plateau.

Can you image that cottonwood in full bloom?

And those grey trees in the back will be

spring green shortly.

What a nice life for the horses living there!

 The cemetery in Algodones.

 A really cool hand-painted fence!

 Well, if it only had wheels?

 A roadside descanso.

 This is a beautiful but dry arroyo 

near the plateau.

I was drawn to the dark golden bushes on the right.

 Okay, someone has to go to Algodones and tell me what this is!

I know it's a cross, but what's on it?

I'm going to take binoculars next time!

 San Antonio Church

I've painted this scene several times.

 A really cool old truck

 Cholla cactus before it blooms that beautiful fuschia color.

 A winding wash in Placitas

with the Sandias as a backdrop.

Last year, on a windy day, I lost my

canvas down this little wash.

 This is the side of a pretty old church in Bernalillo.

 View of the Sandia mountains and pretty clouds.

My only painting that came from that day.

It's funny, I haven't been out on location

for a while and I forgot some basics:

my umbrella, my hat, my sunscreen.

I had a blast.

I got so many reference photos and

it was so nice being out in the mountains

with only the wind and the birds 

for company.