Blacknose Shiner – Trout Fly, watercolor, 9×12″, 2018 by Jean Krueger copyrighted with all rights reserved
This is nominally a trout fly. Due to its large size, 2 1/4″, it is also handy for landlocked salmon and warm water fishing. Its weighted head makes it a wet fly. It can be fished with both a fly rod or retrieving rod. The design is by T. Krueger.
Exuberant Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″, wattercolor on board, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved.
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Inverted Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″ on paper, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved
Ponderosa 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 reserved
Dangled, unwound, spiraled top to botton, the cone of the pinus family is scratchy hard, buoyantly poetic. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779585
Ponderosa Cone, Watercolor, 6×6″, Jean Krueger, 2017, with all rights reserved
Pine 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 reserved
Here shapes are distilled to flat outlines, depending on color changes to define the pine cones surface.
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Wishing Star, watercolor on paper, 6×6″, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
Dark 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, Hard and Soft Pastel, 6×6″, 2017, Jean Krueger Fine Art, copyrighted with all rights reserved
I’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.
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Detail, Pertfect Cactus
Violet Prickly Pear, 2017, Soft and Hard Pastel,20×16″, Jean Krueger Fine Art, copyrighted with all rights reserved
This 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
Detail, Violet Prickly Pear
Symmetrical Asymmetry – Cactus, Pastel on Board, 16×20″, 2017, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved.
This plant grows in a traffic median close to where I stay. I’ve been watching it over the years and it’s grown large and gnarly. I don’t know the name of the species but continue to search for it.
Cacti are generally quite symmetrical in their growth patterns. This example tries to defy that truism with it’s asymmetrical branching. However, the undulating surface of the branches, while not symmetrical, follows in a pattern which repeats somewhat symmetrically. I find that feature fascinating.
Detail
Detail
Getty Musen Garden, Pastel on Gesso Board, 20 x 16, Jean Krueger, 2017
We 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 Garden
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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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