It’s almost cold, leaves clatter in the wind, it’s the season of the witch.
Category: Landscape
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Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch, watercolor and ink, 12×9″,2023, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger. -
The Pollarder
The Pollarder, watercolor, 8×6″, 2023. Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger. This painting shows landscape design in the city, the pollarding of a formal grove of trees. Pollarding involves the removal of tree branches to improve the fullness and shape of new growth that will follow. It’s a labor-intensive, tedious practice centuries old.
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Pollards in Stockholm
Pollards in Sweden, watercolor, 9×12″, 2023. Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerTed’s on sabbatical and I’m with him in Sweden, Stockholm mainly, for now. I like it here, clean, civil and non-confrontational. We catch weekly pipe organ concerts, walk a lot, the foods quite flavorful and chocolate’s cheap. It’s seems to be a very cool society. But the climate’s cold…much too cold for me, it’s mid-April and still wearing 4 layers, hat, scarf and gloves.
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KTH, Stockholm, SE
KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, watercolor, 5.75×9.25″, 2023, copyrighted with allrights reserved by Jean Krueger
This is a view from the apartments where we stay in Stockholm. It’s in the middle of campus. We’ll be here and about til late June, a decent amount of time to learn about another place.
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Twisting Hearts
Twisting Hearts, watercolor, 4×6″, 2023
Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerHearts are susceptible to forces of nature such as tornados. Perhaps they’ll be carried all the way to the stratasphere, eventually fly over China and get shot down! Or maybe they’ll land in your yard, a happier outcome. They’re totally friendly.
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Hyatt Chronic, Ft. Lauderdale
Hyatt Chronic, casein, 12×9, 2022, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1369506Ted and Jean slept here.
Nice place, I could stay another couple weeks but…
We check out tomorrow.
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Tropic of Cancer-Causeway
Tropic of Cancer-Causeway, watercolor, 7×10″, 2022.
Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger.Florida. Here we are for the week while Ted works. It’s quite different than the the places I call home in the northeast mid and south west. Different flora and fauna, lots of water everywhere and not all that walkable. Skyscrapers ans doublewides dominate the cities. Mosquitos and seabirds are all over the grasslands and it always sunny and warm. Florida.
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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 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.
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East Brunswick Storage Unit
East Brunswick Storage Unit, pastel, 9×12″, 2022. Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger.https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1299338 We have a lot of stuff…too much. We have a storage unit to accommodate all the forgotten memories, boxes packed decades ago, abandoned projects and other extraneous ephemera of the ages. We go there seldom because none of it really matters any more. It’s just that it’s hard to let go so we pay over $1K a year to accommodate it all…it’s craziness and a folly.
Anyway. This painting is of the landscape that surrounds our storage unit. I sometimes go to the locker just to see the scenery. The facility is on a promontory that looks far to the east into Massachusetts, far to the west into the skies of New York. It’s value far exceeds the $1K+ we shell out annually to rent a storage locker.
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East Brunswick, Mid-Winter
east Brunswick, Mid-Winter, pastel, 9×12″, 2022. Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Kruger.https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1297158 We’re driving on a Saturday afternoon and it’s starting to snow. It’s winter in New York, scrub trees in the field mowed last fall are a silhouetted filigree against the leaden horizon. It’s not the sort of scene to leave the car to admire. The wind starts to gust.
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East Brunswick, New York
East Brunswick, New York, pastel, 9×12″, 2022.
Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger.https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1295843In late winter we took a drive to the east of our city, Troy. Here the austerity of the hills frozen and neutral, the cold, cold sky draped with clouds pushing northeast, all of this struck me as a beauty specific to Upstate. This landscape is worthy of painting in every season, late winter being no exception.
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Clums Corners in Winter
Clums Corners in Winter, Watercolor, x4″, 2022.
Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jena Krueger
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1287300Our storage unit is located in Clums Corners, a small farm community outside Troy, NY. Our unit has a sweeping view to the east. Late in the afternoon when the sun is flat, the colors of the sky and land saturate and you can see all the way to Massachusetts. The land is still undeveloped by tract housing and commercial pad sites, still used for farming as it has been for centuries. The place is haunted by early American history, an unsung national treasure.
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February Ocatillo
February Ocatillo, pastel, 16×12″
2022Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1283506The setting for this painting is of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. The time of year is winter. I hike a lot when I’m here and was surprised when I saw the Ocatillo I’ve featured in this painting. The cactus was all leafed out and bushy which I don’t remember happening at this elevation til 4-6 weeks later in the growing season. Nonetheless, I admire this species and have painted it before. I’ve included a painting I posted a few years ago to illustrate how intricate and downright lovely it is when its leaves emerge. Hope you like it.
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Desert Wash
Desert Wash, pastel, 12×9″. 2022, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger, https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1282510 In the desert when the sun has just vanished below the mountains the light shifts in ways revealing colors not seen at any other time. This amazes me. Fact is, color changes all day long and through the night. Our color perceptions are defined by time and space. Yeah, really…..
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Ford Canyon Arabesque
Ford Canyon Arabesque, pastel, 24×18″, 2022, $165
copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1282112This painting is of a wondrous scene I encountered while hiking. I was taken by the arabesque forms of cactus and earth. I’ve included a shot the initial layout of of the painting which I used as a guide for the painting’s progression. I’m pleased with this painting and I hope you’ll enjoy it, too.
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Ford Canyon Trail, Maricopa County, AZ
Fod Canyon Trail, pastel, 16×12″, 2022
copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1281041
Detailhttps://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1281041 I’m hiking as much as I can while I spend a few weeks of winter in Arizona. Each hike I determine to see at least one wondrous sight. Sometimes I see the rare desert pool of water, sometimes I see a herd of deer, perhaps a lizard or an early blooming of cactus. Most frequently my wondrous sight is the composition of the desert landscape all by itself as its many elements arrange themselves into intricate layers with lines and swirls of light and color. This painting is of a wondrous sight I witnessed while hiking at the end of a day.
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Jojoba and Ferocactus
Jojoba and Ferocactus, pastel, 2022, 12 x 9″
copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1277359While in Arizona I try to hike every day. The temperature is still below 70 degrees F. during the day, perfect for walking. I walk in one of the Maricopa County Regional Parks, a wild and varied landscape with lots of rocks, animals and plants. I’m always looking for my next painting when I’m there.
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Valley Forge, PA
Valley Forge, PA, watercolor, 16×12″, 2021, $175
copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1250698Autumn is upon Valley Forge. The stone barn shown here was built and added to in the 19th c. It has the remnants of a Palladian window in the wall below the ridge, dating it to the Federalist era of architecture.
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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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North of Pardeeville
North of Pardeeville, $85 USA, Casein, 12×9″, 2021
copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
Summer’s are rich and earthy in Wisconsin. Corn and potatoes grow everywhere.In their midst, wind turbines spin in unison when the night breezes pick up at sunset.
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