
Portico, pastel on paper, 9×12″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
This was painted at an Arizona plein air event.

Portico, pastel on paper, 9×12″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
This was painted at an Arizona plein air event.
Night Painting, Pastel on paper, 12×9″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jena Krueger Fine Art
This was painted at an Arizona plein air event.
Sonoran Desert, pastel on paper, 12×9″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
This was painted at a plein air event in Arizona.
Desert Botanical Garden, pastel on paper, 12×9″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jeana Krueger
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Opuntia – Spring, Pastel on board, 11×14″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
Evening sun, Opuntia in bloom.
Beaver Tail Prickly Pear, pastel on textured board, 20×16″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved
I’m a fool for the subject matter (botany of the desert) which can be found at the Phoenix, AZ, Desert Botanical Garden. I’m a frequent visitor there. The geometry for this painting begins with paisley patterns, ending up with swirling movement from the background to the foreground.

Crested Saguaro, soft pastel on archival board, 20×16″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved
Saguaro, the ubiquitous cactus of the Sonoran desert, mutate from time to time. When they do, they may form an intricately folded fan-like shape at the end of one or more branches. The fan may start to form when the cactus is dozens of years old (saguaros can live a couple hundred years). Other varieties of cactus are able to mutate in this way. To date, there is no explanation for why these plants decide to up and do this…they just do.

Cactus Detail, pastel on board, 6×8″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved
The Desert Botanical Garden is beginning it’s spring bloom.
Brook Trout – Salvelinus fontinalis, watercolor on paper, 12×9″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved
Brook Trout or Brookies or Salvelinus fontinalis are the ubiquitous American fish. They are native to this continent and thrive where water is cold and fast or cold and deep. They’re a favorite fish for the US Forest Service to plant as they have great sport fishing value, not too hard to catch. This guy painted here is full scale about 7-8 inches and is shown at full scale.
Brick Church Road, Troy, NY, watercolor, 6×8″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved
This is a roadside scene that caught my eye on the way to my storage unit in East Brunswick, NY. The ultramarine sky amplified the golden fields in late winter afternoon sun.
Royal Soft Hackle Wet Fly, watercolor, 12×9′, Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved
Royal Soft Hackle Wet Fly is designed an tied by Ted Krueger. It’s made of peacock herl, red chenille and.mallard flank feather, It’s painted ast a scale of 10 to 1.I will discount multiple purchases of trout and lure paintings, Please contact me.
Orange Tree, Soft Paste lon board, 20×16″. bu Jean Krueger,copyrighted with all rights reserved, 2018
Inside the garden wall when the sun is overhead.
Beaded Bugger, watercolor, 9×12″, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved, 2018
Beaded Bugger is a wet fly jigging under the water when it’s retrieved.. I painted it at a scale of 5:1. It’s designed and tied y Ted Krueger.I will discount multiple purchases of trout and lure paintings, Please contact me.
Clouser Minnow, watercolor, 9×12″, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved, 2018
This fly, designed by Bob Clouser, is used for any fish that’ll eat a minnow, that is bass, trout, pike and their ilk. It’s made from two colors of deer hair combined with sparkly streamers. It’s inverted, that is it is weighted by its bead eyes so that the hook is up. As a result it is less apt to get entangled in weeds as it is retrieved. Those who fly fish find it very effective in attracting fish.

Sugar Pine Cone, Watercolor, 16X12″, 2017 by Jean Krueger copyrighted with all rights reserved
Sugar Pine Cone, Watercolor, 16X12″, 2017 by Jean Krueger copyrighted with all rights reserved
These cones are magnificent, a joy to paint.
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Exuberant Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″, wattercolor on board, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved.
This pine cone is happy to be alive. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779940
Inverted Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″ on paper, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved
Ponderosa pine cone standing on its head. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779585
Dangled Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″ on board, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved
Dangled, unwound, spiraled top to botton, the cone of the pinus family is scratchy hard, buoyantly poetic. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779585

Ponderosa Cone, Watercolor, 6×6″, Jean Krueger, 2017, with all rights reserved
Pine cones are tactile as well as visual delights. The spiraling scales of this female cone hide the seeds close to the core. Female cones and male cones grow an the same tree, convenient for them, eh?
Red Green Ponderosa Cone, Watercolor, 6×6″, Jean Krueger, 2017, with all rights reserved
Here shapes are distilled to flat outlines, depending on color changes to define the pine cones surface.
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Wishing Star, watercolor on paper, 6×6″, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
Dark Star twinkling on the desert floor, slowly expanding to fill its place in the universe.
Professional pigments on 140# CP watercolor paper, masked birder. Signed, dated and titled in back.
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Perfect Cactus, Hard and Soft Pastel, 6×6″, 2017, Jean Krueger Fine Art, copyrighted with all rights reserved
I’ve been painting larger paintings for the last several weeks. Im going to paint a short series of smaller works for a few days.
This cactus lives at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ. I would live in that garden if they’e let me. It’s hot heaven on earth.
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Detail, Pertfect Cactus

Violet Prickly Pear, 2017, Soft and Hard Pastel,20×16″, Jean Krueger Fine Art, copyrighted with all rights reserved
This plant is too pretty not to paint. It is backlit with the late afternoon sun, painted from a photo taken at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ.
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Detail, Violet Prickly Pear
Detail, Violet Prickly Pear