Portico, pastel on paper, 9×12″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
This was painted at an Arizona plein air event.
Tag: botany
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Sonoran Desert
Sonoran Desert, pastel on paper, 12×9″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerThis was painted at a plein air event in Arizona.
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Opuntia-Spring
Opuntia – Spring, Pastel on board, 11×14″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
Evening sun, Opuntia in bloom.
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Cresed Saguaro
Crested Saguaro, soft pastel on archival board, 20×16″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reservedSaguaro, 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.
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Orange Tree
Orange Tree, Soft Paste lon board, 20×16″. bu Jean Krueger,copyrighted with all rights reserved, 2018Inside the garden wall when the sun is overhead.
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Brussell Sprouts with Grape Tomatoes
Brussell Sprouts With Grape Tomatoes, Soft Pastel on Board, 20X16″, 2017, by Jean Krueger copyrighted with all rights reservedThis painting glorifies stacked roundness.
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Exuberant, Inverted and Dangled Ponderosa Cones
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 reservedPonderosa 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 reservedDangled, unwound, spiraled top to botton, the cone of the pinus family is scratchy hard, buoyantly poetic. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779585
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Ponderosa Cone and Red Green Ponderosa Cone
Ponderosa Cone, Watercolor, 6×6″, Jean Krueger, 2017, with all rights reservedPine 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 reservedHere shapes are distilled to flat outlines, depending on color changes to define the pine cones surface.
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Wishing Star
Wishing Star, watercolor on paper, 6×6″, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerDark 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
Perfect Cactus, Hard and Soft Pastel, 6×6″, 2017, Jean Krueger Fine Art, copyrighted with all rights reservedI’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.http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/776743http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/776743
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Getty Museum Garden
Getty Musen Garden, Pastel on Gesso Board, 20 x 16, Jean Krueger, 2017We 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 GardenCopyright by Jean Krueger who retains all rights to this painting.
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ARARIBA
Arabiba, 12×9″, watercolor on 14O # Paper
These winged seeds come from a tree which can grow to over 100 feet in height. In Brasil the tree is used extensively in reforestation projects, urban landscaping and for its ornamental wood. The yellow flowers become really large, 4-6″ whirly-gig units which are blown far and wide. The seeds also have pickery spines that cling to fur, clothes or wherever they can get a grip. I painted these as part of an ongoig study of seeds, my interest in these being their enormous size. These are painted full scale.
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Tamboril
Tamboril, 8×8″, watercolor on 140# HP paper
The tamboil tree goes by many names, most of which are associated with its ear shaped seed pods. Scientifically it belongs to the Fabaceae family and is named Enterolobium contortisiliquum. They’re native to Brasil. They can reach 20-40 meters in height giving welcome shade. The wood is used for furnishings, the bark which is high in tannin is used in learher industries.
The seed pods have a wonderful, pouchy shade with a have a rattle when jiggled!
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Tropical Sun and Shade
Tropical Sun and Shade, 140# h0t press watercolor paper
A couple years ago when I decided to paint with watercolors I found a book by Tom Hoffaman, Watercolor Painting, 2012, http://hoffmannwatercolors.com. I got a digital copy of it and refer to it frequently. Tom put out a post today about his upcoming teaching schedule for this and next year so I checked out his blog. Reading it led to the painting above.
Tom is very clear-headed in his approach to painting, suggesting that all paintings initially be directed by identifying the value, wetness, composition and color of the topic at hand and then consciously proceeding with these attributes as guides for subsequent painting. He says to place each brushstroke with purpose. That advice has resonance with me. I did a lot of architectural drawing at one point in my zigzag career and remember I well that an architectural drawing has NO superfluous marks, that every line must mean something.
Thinking on this, I did today’s painting and am pretty happy with it. Remaining mindful and attentive to each movement of the brush, how much paint and water to apply and keeping the total design in mind works way better than letting it rip in any ole direction.
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