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.
Category: America the Beautiful
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Hearts, Incoming
Hearts, Incoming, watercolor, 8×6″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger -
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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Winter Ball
Winter Ball, gouache, 10×8″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Cold and cloudy December evening in Wisconsin, fifteen minutes before dusk, we can still get a few hoops in.
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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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A Murder of Hearts
A Murder of Hearts, watercolor, 6×8″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Hearts congregate in large numbers, murders these groups are called.
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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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Daily Cat 85
Daily Cat 85, brush and ink, 6×4″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Cozy fur coat for a snug nap.
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Sugar Pine Cone – Pinus lambertiana
Sugar Pin e Cone – Pinus Lambertiana, watercolor, 11×14″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Drawn to scale, the cone of the Sugar Pine shown here is in the medium range in size. These cones can grow to over two feet in length. They are superb in their symetry and the rythmic spiraling of their woody scales.
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Beadhead Bugger – Wet Fly
Beadhead Bugger.watercolor, 9×12″, 2020, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger This is a popular fly pattern, designed to travel below the surface of the water after it has been cast. I don’t use a fly rod but a casting rod, instead. If I were to use this lure, I would attach a clear casting bubble stopped by a sinker ahead of about two feet of 6 pound test line to which the fly is tied. The bubble can be filled with water to add ballast, thus distance when casting into a lake or river. The lure will be slowly retrieved, then cast out again til the hapless trout spots and bites it.
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Daily Cat 83
Daily Cat 83, brush and ink, 6×4″,2020,copyri9ghted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Chilling on the sheepskin. Meow.
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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.
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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.
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Hearts Fly North
Hearts Fly North, watercolor 6×4″ 2019, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Hearts fly high and in a Vee as they wing northward to the warm summer waters.
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Winter Hearts
Winter Hearts, watercolor, 5×7″, 2019, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Winter rolls in. Hearts roost in leafless trees in the late-light early morning, winds 15-17mph out of the northeast. Hardship forms a bond.
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Off Ramp – Winter Hearts
Off Ramp – Winter Hearts, watercolor, 5×7″, 2019, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger It snowed all day and at high noon the sky is leaden and icy. Hearts huddle on the power lines to stay warm. They hear the traffic signals switch and see the cars flow beneath them.
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Daily Cat 79
Daily Cat 79, brush and ink, 4×6″. 2019, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Cat with a string.
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Migrating Hearts and Hearts Fly North
Migrating Hearts Hearts travel together while migrating, safety in numbers, ya know.
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Hearts Fly North Hearts fly high and in a Vee as they wing northward to the warm summer waters.
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Paints are 4×6″ watercolor on 140# HP watercolor paper, 2019, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger.
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Skip Parsons
Skip Parsons at McGearry;s, Albany, NY, watercolor, 6×4″, 2019, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Skip Parsons and his band perform dixieland once a month at McGeary;s, a bar in downtown Albany. Stop in sometime.
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