Another take on fall at Engelke’s farm. This painting follows the movement of trees and the shadows they cast.
View from the front end of a Hornbeck Canoe.
The Start of Autumn in Upstate New York.
Poolside in Costa Rica.
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COSTA RICA! Spring break, arrived late night. So much sun!
Painted en plein aire, this painting was awarded 3rd Prize at the Sangres art Guild’s Alla Prima Westcliffe competition in Setptember 2019
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Painted en plein aire with the doors open to the cold wet night, this was entered in the Sangres Art Guild Alla Prima Westcliffe competition in September 2019. It was painted as I was hunkered down in my car with the door open. Plein aire is not my favorite way to paint a nocturne. It can be a real challenge, not that I’m not up for challenges. It’s a skill to be acquired through practice, lots of practice
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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.
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.
Looking North.
Cold and cloudy December evening in Wisconsin, fifteen minutes before dusk, we can still get a few hoops in.
Hearts congregate in large numbers, murders these groups are called.
Hearts head home after spending the day in the valley. They’ll fly back tomorrow.
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.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/hearts-on-the-line-2019/775393
I-87 North is the road to Canada. I-87 South is the road to New York City. It’s mid-autumn in Upstate New York and mornings are frosty clean crisp. The daylight filters through the deciduous evergreen mix of forest, atmosphere thickening as the layer of mountains recedes.
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Eastern light, early morning in the garden.
Late in the day, western light, the leaves will plummet to earth in 48 hous.
Looking north in the late afternoon sun the fence posts march into the autumn pasture bleached by summer sun now departed. This is painted using three colors, alizarin crimson , yellow ochre and ultramarine. These pigments are then mixed to create the other colors of the painting. John Singer Sargent, American painter, used this color pallet to great effect.
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