Ponderosa Branch, watercolor, 6×8″, 2018, copyrighted with all right reserved by Jean Krueger
When I walk in the campground next to our house, I pick stuff up to look at later. This ponderosa twig caught my eye for its shape and texture.
Tag: nature
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Opuntia
Opuntia, watercolor, 8×6″, 2018, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerDozens of varieties of Opuntia are in bloom in these early May days in Arizona. I found this blossom at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. I’m inspired in this painting by the semi-transparent petals and the contrast of vermilion against aquas, greens and purples.
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White Tanks Park, Maricopa County
White Tanks Park, Maricopa County, Pastel on paper,2018, 12×9″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerThe desert blooms in the spring. This is a variety of Cholla with mostly green blossoms.
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Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea, pastel on paper, 2018, 9×12″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerBack-lighted bougainvillea as seen on a morning walk.
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Argentine Giant Cacti – Echinopsis candicans
Argentine Giant Cacti – Echinopsis candicans, 12×9″, 2018, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerThis cactus grows in our neighborhood. It is low to the ground and spreads by growing outward from its middle. It blooms at night and has deliciosly fragrant blooms.The blooms when open are about 12″ across and closely spaced. A Giant Argentine Cactus in bloom is quite a sight to see.
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Night Painting
Night Painting, Pastel on paper, 12×9″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jena Krueger Fine ArtThis was painted at an Arizona plein air event.
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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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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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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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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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Cactus Detail
Cactus Detail, pastel on board, 6×8″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved
The Desert Botanical Garden is beginning it’s spring bloom.
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Brook Trout – Salvelinus fontinalis
Brook Trout – Salvelinus fontinalis, watercolor on paper, 12×9″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reservedBrook Trout or Brookies or Salvelinus fontinalis are the ubiquitous American fish. They are native to this continent and thrive where water is cold and fast or cold and deep. They’re a favorite fish for the US Forest Service to plant as they have great sport fishing value, not too hard to catch. This guy painted here is full scale about 7-8 inches and is shown at full scale.
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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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Royal Soft Hackle Wet Fly
Royal Soft Hackle Wet Fly, watercolor, 12×9′, Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reservedRoyal Soft Hackle Wet Fly is designed an tied by Ted Krueger. It’s made of peacock herl, red chenille and.mallard flank feather, It’s painted ast a scale of 10 to 1.I will discount multiple purchases of trout and lure paintings, Please contact me.
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Beaded Bugger – Wet Trout Fly
Beaded Bugger, watercolor, 9×12″, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved, 2018Beaded Bugger is a wet fly jigging under the water when it’s retrieved.. I painted it at a scale of 5:1. It’s designed and tied y Ted Krueger.I will discount multiple purchases of trout and lure paintings, Please contact me.
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Clouser Minnow – Wet Fly
Clouser Minnow, watercolor, 9×12″, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved, 2018 This fly, designed by Bob Clouser, is used for any fish that’ll eat a minnow, that is bass, trout, pike and their ilk. It’s made from two colors of deer hair combined with sparkly streamers. It’s inverted, that is it is weighted by its bead eyes so that the hook is up. As a result it is less apt to get entangled in weeds as it is retrieved. Those who fly fish find it very effective in attracting fish.
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Stimulator
Stimulator, watercolor, 9×12″, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved, 2018‘Stimulator’ is a classic trout fly pattern. It uses elk hair, wire and colored fiber.I’ve painted this example at a scale of 7 to1.Orivis describes is as an ‘attractor dry fly’ which sits up high on the surface of the water when it’s cast. It can be used in both slow and fast waters.
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Fontinalis
Fontinalis, watercolor, 9×12″, 2018 by Jean Krueger copyrighted with all rights reservedThis is named after the scientific mane for ‘Brook Trout’, It’s a wet fly and is shown at 6 times its actual size. Tied and designed byTed Kruger, Troy, NY.
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Blood Sausage – Trout Fly
Blood Sausage, Wet Trout Fly, watercolor, 9×12″, 2018 by Jean Krueger copyrighted with all rights reservedBlood Sausage is a trout fly, medium in size. Iridescent, transparent film is rolled around the 3/4″ hook secured with golden pheasant feathers by wrapped wire. Ted Krueger designs and ties it in Troy, NY.
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