
Agave, Arizona – $35 USD, oil on rigid board – 5×2.75 in
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/agave-arizona/853595
Nature and realism as abstraction…go figure.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/agave-arizona/853595

Nature and realism as abstraction…go figure.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/agave-arizona/853595

It’s difficult to travel more than a few block in Sun City, Maricopa County, Arizona, before encountering a golf course. I don’t play and they’re closed to all but paying customers. They’ve remained a huge mystery to me for the more than 60 years that I’ve been a visitor to this specialized City. The golf paths wind through lush, shaded and watered landscapes that disappear in the far distance, forbidden to non-golfing mortals such as I so I’m very curious as to what lies beyond. Nonetheless, the courses are lovely and I don’t begrudge those who are to allowed to amble the greens from dawn to dusk. After dark the greens belong to coyotes, the rabbits they hunt and the birds who roost til morning. This is the order such and the way it shall be.

Here’s the end of the day at the end of the Summer in Upstate New York in a canoe where Ted paddles and I try to stay warm… and take photos to take my mind off how cold I am. Yeah, I’d stay warmer if I paddled, too, but I’m not a paddler. I’m a painter.

CR-119, Westcliffe, CO” – $50 USD
Micron Pen on Bristol – 12×9 in
There’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

On the water at sunset, Raquette Lake, NY.

A view from a Hornbeck canoe, late summer at dusk.

This is a study for an larger oil painting executed during the same session. I use the study to locate objects, study the movement of the composition and to use as a reference when composing the oil painting.

Looking North, monsoon day.

Poolside in Costa Rica.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/lasabana-hotel-san-jose-costa-rica/790299

COSTA RICA! Spring break, arrived late night. So much sun!

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.

Backlit mountains as the sun sets on Phantom Ranch, looking down Hermit Road.

Wha dat down dare?
Meow.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/daily-cat-94/782929

We were in Chicago the weekend after Thanksgiving, stayed a couple nights on Michigan Ave. Perfect fall/winter weather, wet and cool but not windy. Spent the day at the Art Institute, dinner at Berghoff’s. And walking, lovely lights and reflections. I love Chicago, wish I had a good reason to live there.

In mid-autumn, the Raquette River in New York’s Adirondack Park start to freeze at the edges. The river still rushes on down the rock towards Long Lake in Hamilton County, icing the banks with its spray.

Perched and curious.

The long reach of a limber cat, legs are hair-triggered springs, so quick.

