Ocotillo, Pastel, 9×12″, 2017, by Jean Krueger copyright with all rights reserved
A fussy painting of a prickly plant.
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Ocotillo, Detal
Ocotillo, Detail

Ocotillo, Pastel, 9×12″, 2017, by Jean Krueger copyright with all rights reserved
A fussy painting of a prickly plant.
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Ocotillo, Detal
Ocotillo, Detail

Symmetrical Asymmetry – Cactus, Pastel on Board, 16×20″, 2017, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved.
This plant grows in a traffic median close to where I stay. I’ve been watching it over the years and it’s grown large and gnarly. I don’t know the name of the species but continue to search for it.
Cacti are generally quite symmetrical in their growth patterns. This example tries to defy that truism with it’s asymmetrical branching. However, the undulating surface of the branches, while not symmetrical, follows in a pattern which repeats somewhat symmetrically. I find that feature fascinating.
Detail
Detail
Bronc Riding, Watercolor, 12×9″, Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved, 2017
That’s how they do it in the West.
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Getty Musen Garden, Pastel on Gesso Board, 20 x 16, Jean Krueger, 2017
We made a trip to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA, in the middle of winter. The garden is stunning, a master work of landscape design. These succulents demanded the iPhone take their picture and then asked to be painted as well.
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Detail, Getty Museum Garden
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Green Orange, Watercolor, 9×12″, Jean Krueger, 2017
Green turns to orange, November flows to January and sour becomes very sweet.
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Detail, Green Orange
Green Orange, Watercolor, 9×12″, Jean Krueger, 2017
This orange will be ripe in about 2 months. The tree grows in the backyard of our apartment and is about 50 years old. It’s nearing the end of its productive life, it bears fewer oranges each year. We still love the tree and will let it stand when there’s no more fruit. It provides midday shade under the hot Arizona sun.
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Detail of Green Orange
Aloe – Caliornia Coastal, pastel on saned paper, 12×9″, Jean Krueger, 2017
This aloe is shown before it’s blossom have opened. I like the orange and green contrasts, also the serpentine movement of the the leaves.
Native American Headdress Warbonnet Detail, Watercolor
This pattern is designed by Louis Marcus Plante. I’ve painted is several times because it’s very popular. If you’d like one, I’ll paint one for you, just ask.

Prickly Pear, soft pastel on sanded paper, 12 x 9″ 2017, by Jean Krueger. All rights reserved.
The ubiquitous Prickly Pear sparkles and shines, shifting colors in the intense sun of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. The complimentary teal-turquoise and rose-magentas beg to be painted. The sun washes and deepens the contrasts, highlighting every surface contour. I love it.
Prickly Pear, pastel on sanded paper, 12 x 9″, 2017, by Jean Krueger. All rights reserved.
This plant almost paints itself. It’s curves, spirals, dark depths and skylit heights arrange themselves on a painters surface and sing out which colors should be chosen. I look forward to getting to paint it, really.

This landscape is painted of a view found in a small Colorado town. The clouds are blown in a line, a towering front, from the west over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. A show of vaporous forms reflect the last rays at the end of day, mixing, swirling a morass of color overhead until, at last, darkness falls.
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Artists’ pigments on 300# CP watercolor paper, masked border
I spent last summer in southeast Colorado. My mom and I left for Arizona in early October. I continue to paint from the photos taken while in the mountains, images taken with future watercolors and pastels in mind.
This view stretches west to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains which are the eastern front range to the the Rocky Mountains. The road leads to the low foothills where it ends at San Isabel National Forest. From the Forest, footpathes ascend to heights of 13,000 feet and above.
I will return to these places next year after the snows have come and gone away.
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