This little sketch is painted while looking west from our front porch. The spruce trees and low junipers are backlit by filtered sun through tall ponderosa pines.
Tag: Landscape
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Forest Mid-Morning
Forest Mid Morning, Oil on Card, 6×8″, 2019 copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger -
Brush Creek – Greenleaf Ranch
Looking southeast, the barns, the fences, the hills and mountains beyond glow in the mid morning sun. The horses are out to pasture.
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Three Trees
Three Trees, watercolor, 12×9″, 2019 copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Just three trees in the late afternoon sun, washed and warmed by the horizontal light.
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Laundry
Laundry, oil on panel, 10×8″, 2019, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger Painted at a Plein Aire event, Victor, CO.
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Indian Lake Inlet
Indian Lake Inlet, watercolor, 9×12″, 2018, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerFiltered light, deep water, fishing from a canoe, mid-summer.
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Utah
Utah by Jean Krueger, 7×5″, watercolor, copyrighted with all rights reservedI saw this landscape on the way to Arizona where I will winter. Textured and sunwashed.
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Comanche Trail
Comanche Trail, pastel on board, 12×16″, 2018, copyrighted by Jean Krueger with all rights reserved
The late summer air in the alpine landscape is still warm, 60-65 degrees F, although the wind can gust and make it feel cooler. But when I hike I’m in a sleeveless shirt and with pantlegs rolled up, working up a head of steam. The sky is just as blue as the pastels show and the grasses are drying, dying to naples yellow and light buff. However, those evergreens will weather all seasons looking just like they do today.
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Comanche Lake Looking East
Comanche Lake Looking East, watercolor, 2018, copyrighted by Jean Krueger with all rights reservedI hike to go fishing here. This lake has great big cut throat trout.
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Platte
Platte, watercolor, 9×12″, 2018, by Jean Krueger copyrighted with all rights reservedI was hiking and found a rock that impressed me . It looked like a landscape. I’ve started a series of landscape paintings based upon the colors, shapes and contours I see in the rock. I am doing this as an exercise to paint quickly without too much analysis, letting the paint flow and granulate in watery washes. I’m limiting my pallet to no more than 5 colors. I tilt and turn the painting to direct the water’s flow. I plan to create a least landscapes from the same rock.
This is a simple concept but an effective way for me explore the watercolor media. -
CR 140, Westcliffe, Colorado
CR 140, Westcliffe, CO, 2018, Professional watercolors on 140# hot press paper, masked border, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
This view is my drive home in the summertime. Typically, the clouds gather and a bit of rain falls each afternoon. After the shower, everything is a bit greener and the sky is full of sifted light filtering through to the mountains and western pastures. My painting is about the light as it slides through the clouds.
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Schoolfield Road and Macey Lane, Westcliffe, CO
Schoolfield Road and Macey Lane, Westcliffe, CO, Professional Watercolors on 140# rough watercolor paper, masked border, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
I go by this place almost daily. It’s a lovely view, always different owing to the weather or time of year.
This painting studies the movement of sky and the pattern of light in the fields as the the winds shift the sun’s rays. -
Desert Botanical Garden
Desert Botanical Garden, pastel on paper, 12×9″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jeana Kruegerhttps://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/836688
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Beaver Tail Prickly Pear
Beaver Tail Prickly Pear, pastel on textured board, 20×16″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reservedI’m a fool for the subject matter (botany of the desert) which can be found at the Phoenix, AZ, Desert Botanical Garden. I’m a frequent visitor there. The geometry for this painting begins with paisley patterns, ending up with swirling movement from the background to the foreground.
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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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Brick Church Road
Brick Church Road, Troy, NY, watercolor, 6×8″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reservedThis is a roadside scene that caught my eye on the way to my storage unit in East Brunswick, NY. The ultramarine sky amplified the golden fields in late winter afternoon sun.
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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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Violet Prickly Pear
Violet Prickly Pear, 2017, Soft and Hard Pastel,20×16″, Jean Krueger Fine Art, copyrighted with all rights reservedThis plant is too pretty not to paint. It is backlit with the late afternoon sun, painted from a photo taken at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ.
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Detail, Violet Prickly Pear
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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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