
Black Cat, birdseye view.

Black Cat, birdseye view.

“Daily Cat 150” – Stealth.
Brush and Ink on 140# HP watercolor paper, graphite – 6×4 in
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/daily-cat-150/797559

Colorado Blue Spruce thrives in the Colorado montane where we spend summers. The tree is making a comeback after having been severely attacked by a beetle that plagued the species ten or more years ago. They grow tall an thick, their neighbors are the ponderosa and fir trees in the area in which we live. Their foliage is a light turquoise mixed with deeper blue greens, the needles are short and quite densely spaced.

The cones shown here are from the Limber Pine. They are shown in an unripened stage, as they mature they’ll turn brown. I found these while walking in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado.


These are studies for a block prints. The cat is mine. Meow.

I’m trying a small Qor brand travel set of paints, 12 different pigments in a small metal case. The colors are really saturated and spring to life when water is applied to them, they have tremendous flow. This was painted at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden en plein air.
$20. USA, $4. shipping
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/aloe-vera/712440
Quillback Rockfish, watercolor on paper, 9×12″ 2018, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
This is a fish native to the west coast of North America from Alaska to Mexico, they can be up to 24″ in length and live to 95 years. Its biological name is Sabastes maliger. It lives in kelp covered rock outcrops with smaller fish preferring the shallower depths of the Pacific Ocean. Larger fish can be found in water up to 900′ deep.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/907362