News

 Hi all,

I keep trying to get back to blogging but life just keeps on

interfering and dragging me away.

BUT, I am back and hope to post regularly.

News:

We had our collaborative plein air show,

"ARTISTS PAINT CORRALES"

in October during the Corrales Harvest Festival.

Such a great group of women artists!

The booth was beautiful and the artwork was incredible.

We didn't make very many sales (small turnout, wrong kind of cutsomer, etc.),

but we had a great time and met a lot of wonderful people.

Here are a few of my plein air pieces from the show:

These paintings are available through my studio.

So, I spent a few days recuperating, deciding what

my next project might be.

I reorganized my studio.

I spent several days driving around Corrales, Algodones, and Bernalillo,

taking photos of the beautiful fall colors.

An example:

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Beautiful, the village of Corrales!

So anyway, several life "things" came up 

and the studio sat empty of life for a couple of weeks.

Then, when I was ready to work, BAM, it got colder.

The knob had broken off of my heater and I had to wait

until we got a new one and have my husband install it.

It just got installed day before yesterday so now I have HEAT!

I also have my Christmas music organized and ready to go.

SO, I am going to start work today on finishing

my roughly 60 150 Challenge paintings.

I have a feeling they are all going to be paintings of fall colors, lol.

I'm thinking about moving my SOUP TO SANTA event until

after the holiday madness has passed.

I guess I will have to call it something else.

I thought it might be nice to have an "end of winter" event

and celebrate the coming of spring.

We'll see.

I have several works at Weems Old Town Gallery

and Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe.

If you're ever in the area, 

be sure to drop by and say hi to the gallery owners

and tell them I sent you!

This painting below is a 9x12" and was painted

while staying at a beautiful home in Taos, New Mexico.

"TAOS MOUNTAIN PURPLES"

9x12"

oil on panel

I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving

 and this is what I will be doing this week:

LOVE TO ALL!

#115 "APPLE ORCHARD"

 #115

$150

Now that it feels like winter in New Mexico, I really enjoying

looking at the paintings I created in the spring.

I love this Taos apple blossom orchard.

My favorite part are the misty mountains

If you are interested in this painting,

CLICK HERE.

Dee Sanchez has a new personal blog post.

Please click on the image above to read.

To read My newest personal blog post,

CLICK HERE.

Corrales, Bernalillo, Algodones

I went looking for the gold.

Autumn Gold. New Mexico Gold.

I spent the last two mornings driving and shooting photographs.

My destinations were Corrales, Bernalillo, and Algodones.

I think I could still spend another eight hours driving down little dirt roads

and not see everything there is to be seen.

Here are some of my best shots:

 Beautiful old cottonwood

 Fall Harvest Decorations

 The Old Church Road acequia

 Virginia creeper and adobe

 Loved the light on these prayer flags

 Dried corn stalks against the mountain

 Harvesting the apples

 Oh my gosh, the cranes were out!

I saw them in several fields.

They noticed me but I was very quiet.

 An old tractor put out to pasture.

 Beautiful horse

 The cranes are everywhere.

 The old church with a little fall color

 A warm adobe against the fall colors

 Cactus pear fruit

 The old peace sign near the Milagro Winery

 Pumpkins are still in the field!

 Sweet peas are still blooming!

 The last of the red leaves on an old shrub

 Actually right near my house.

Oooh, scary.

 Also near my house.

Even scarier!!

 Headed out to Bernalillo

 Along the road, a nice sweet little stream

 with the Sandia mountains as a backdrop.

 Beauty in the fall colors

 Stored hay for horses and cows

You can see the Algodones plateau on the right.

 The Algodones plateaus

 An old abandoned camper under the cottonwoods

 A very brave unescorted chicken

 Beautiful dry arroyo

 Virginia Creeper and old shutters

 The Albuquerque Open Space (yes, I went there too).

Serenity with the ducks

Hope you enjoyed this photo tour.

I have a craving to take as many pics as I can

these next couple of days because the gold is fleeting.