Victor Colorado has and annual Plein Air event. I painted there for over a week last summer. Victor is a gold mining town and has been since the 19th century. There’s mine pits and mine heads all over town, lots to paint.
Category: Colorado
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Victor, Colorado
Victor, Colorado, watercolor, 12×9, 2022. Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1365513 -
CR 119 Looking Northeast, Westcliffe CO
CR 119 Looking Northeast, $1110USD, Casein, 16×20″, 2021.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1219127Cold front meets warm front. Looks like rain.
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Grove
Grove, $40USD, casein, 6×8″, 2021, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
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This abstract forest looks a lot like Colorado to me, but you be the judge.
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CR 199 – Westcliffe, CO
CR119 – Westcliffe COI- $50. USD, Pen and Ink, 9×12″, 2020
Copyrighted with rights reserved by Jean Krueger
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CR-119, Westcliffe, CO” – $50 USD
Micron Pen on Bristol – 12×9 inThere’s so may forms of ink painting and drawing. I think drawing is more tedious than painting and that painting is more fluid (literally) than drawing. Micron pens are good for building layers and tones. Unlike brushes, the points wear and the ink supply runs out…I have a couple sets of Micron pens in the mail. I’ll be trying to complete the iNKTOBER project. #inktober2020
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/cr-119-westtcliffe-co/833225
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Greyling
Greyling, $80. pastel,122×9″, 2020 copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
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Greyling is a fresh water fish that lives at high altitudes (think Colorado). It’s a relative of trout but has scales whereas trout do not. It’s painted at close to full scale. They’re quite colorful.
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Copper Gulch Road
Copper Gulch Road, $60. USA, Pastel, 9×12″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
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Looking North, monsoon day.
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Stampede Rodeo Stars
Stampede Rodeo Stars, watercolor, 12×9″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger July is Rodeo in Westcliffe, Colorado, and mixed team roping is one of my favorite events. The woman, the man and both horses work in tight partnership to rope a calf while riding at a full gallop out of the shoot. It’s not easy, and there’s a lot more misses than successful roping of a running beast.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/stampede-rodeo-stars/789243
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Cottonwood Creek, Westcliffe, CO
Cottonwood Creek, Westcliffe, CO, watercolor, 9×12″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Painted en plein aire, this painting was awarded 3rd Prize at the Sangres art Guild’s Alla Prima Westcliffe competition in Setptember 2019
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/cottonwood-creek-westcliffe-colorado/788555
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Shell Station, Westcliffe, CO
Shell Station, Westcliffe, CO, watercolor, 12×9″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Painted en plein aire with the doors open to the cold wet night, this was entered in the Sangres Art Guild Alla Prima Westcliffe competition in September 2019. It was painted as I was hunkered down in my car with the door open. Plein aire is not my favorite way to paint a nocturne. It can be a real challenge, not that I’m not up for challenges. It’s a skill to be acquired through practice, lots of practice
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/shell-station-westcliffe-co/788568
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Hearts, Incoming
Hearts, Incoming, watercolor, 8×6″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Hearts fly in to start the day, over the mountains to the high plains valley. The air is crisp and clear, it should be a good day.
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Schoolfield Road, Westcliffe, CO
Colorado skies are some of the most punchy that I’ve ever witnessed. Light streams in through breaks in the thunderheads that dump momentary showers like clockwork during the monsoon season of July and August. The light can be bright and dark all at the same time. Wide vistas of the mountainous panorama can display a full range of meteorological conditions simultaneously.
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Hermit Lane, Westcliffe, CO
Hermit Lane, Westcliffe, CO., watercolor, 9×12″, 2020, copyrighted wiht all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Backlit mountains as the sun sets on Phantom Ranch, looking down Hermit Road.
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Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado
Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado, watercolor, 12×9″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Looking North.
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Meadow Hearts
Meadow Hearts, watercolor, 6×8″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger In the crisp late winter air the hearts gather on the fence line.
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Hearts Fly Over the Mountain
Hearts Fly Over the Mountain, watercolor, 8×6″, 2020 copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Hearts head home after spending the day in the valley. They’ll fly back tomorrow.
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Victor Mines
Victor Mines, watercolor, 14×11′, 2019, copywrited with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Victor, Colorado, is the site of many mines, operational and abandoned. For those mines which no longer operate, the architecture that supported them still towers throughout the town’s landscape, a built presence that defines what Victor is, a place locked the memory of a different era and lifestyle It’s eerie, sort of magnificent and very interesting.
Victor Plein Aire 2019, Sold.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/victor-mines/778423
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Butter and Eggs – Linaria vulgaris
Butter and Eggs, watercolor, 11×14”, 2019, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Victor alla Prima, sold.
Butter and Eggs was painted on site in Victor, CO. It’s a snap-drangonish perennial that stands 18-24″ and seems to love poor soil. It is delicat and detailed.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/butter-and-eggs/778422
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Aspens Alvarado
Late in the day, western light, the leaves will plummet to earth in 48 hous.
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Brush Creek Fence
Brush Creek Fence, watercolor, 8×6″, 2019 copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Looking north in the late afternoon sun the fence posts march into the autumn pasture bleached by summer sun now departed. This is painted using three colors, alizarin crimson , yellow ochre and ultramarine. These pigments are then mixed to create the other colors of the painting. John Singer Sargent, American painter, used this color pallet to great effect.
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Forest Mid-Morning
Forest Mid Morning, Oil on Card, 6×8″, 2019 copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger This little sketch is painted while looking west from our front porch. The spruce trees and low junipers are backlit by filtered sun through tall ponderosa pines.
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