Comanche Lake Looking East, watercolor, 2018, copyrighted by Jean Krueger with all rights reserved
I hike to go fishing here. This lake has great big cut throat trout.
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Comanche Lake Looking East
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Sometimes It Rained in Rome – Piazza del Popolo
Sometimes It Rained in Rome – Piazza del Popolo, 2018, professional watercolors on 140# hot press watercolor paper, masked border, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerGray day, long ago, Eternal City.
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Thistles
Thistle, 2018, professional watercolors on 184# wet media recycled, acid free paper, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
This studies a small thistle I found while on a walk. The paper it’s painted on is a Strathmore product, that has a tan-ish cast and contains 30% recycled material. It’s the first time I’ve painted on it…it’s okay. I prefer white papers but it’s nice for experimenting with color and imagery.
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Thistle, 2018, Permanent black pens on Japanese notebook paper, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerThis studies a dried Canada Thistle I found while taking a walk. It’s drawn with ink…I think this is the first drawing I’ve posted in that media.
A few weeks back while teaching beginners watercolor and pastel classes I became aware how REALLY important drawing skills are to any person learning to paint.
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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.
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Cattle Cutting, A Painted View Ranch, Westcliffe, CO
Cattle Cutting, A Painted View Ranch, Westcliffe, CO, , 2018, professional watercolors on 140# hot press watercolor paper, masked border, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
Each year in Westcliffe, CO, A Painted View Ranch sponsors the Sangre de Cristo Classic Cutting Horse Show. I go and take photos. It’s a great show, the horses and cattle are magnificent and the action is non-stop.
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Paintbrush and Purple Fringe
Paintbrush and Purple Fringe, watercolor, 12×9″, 2018, copyroghted with all rights reserved
This painting shows alpine flowers as they start to bloom in the late spring. They are shown in the late afternoon sun as I started back from a day of fishing at Comanche Lake, elevation 11,000+ feet. I caught four large cutthroat trout and this image to reminds me of that day.
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Pretty Babies
Pretty Babies, watercolor, 6×4′, 2018, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
Life is fabulous!
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Buck the Cat
Buck the Cat, Original Watercolor, 8×6″, 2018, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
Buck is the family cat. He’ll be a year old at the end of May so he’s still technically a kitten. We really love him. Meow.
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Swimming Laps
Swimming Laps, watercolor, 12×9″, 2018, copyrighted with all rights reserved bu Jean KruegerSwimming back and forth doing laps I notice the shimmer of water and all the reflections that move with the sun.
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Musicians
Musicians, Original Watercolor , 2018, 12×9″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean KruegerMusicians of Ahmedabad, India,
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Trout Fly
Soft Hackle Trout Fly, watercolor, 9X12″, 2018 by jean Krueger copyrighted with all rights reservedThis fly is a go-getter, always attracts hits. Ted Krueger designes and ties them. Counting the days til trout season’s open.
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Ponderosa Cone and Red Green Ponderosa Cone
Ponderosa Cone, Watercolor, 6×6″, Jean Krueger, 2017, with all rights reservedPine 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 reservedHere shapes are distilled to flat outlines, depending on color changes to define the pine cones surface.
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ARARIBA
Arabiba, 12×9″, watercolor on 14O # Paper
These winged seeds come from a tree which can grow to over 100 feet in height. In Brasil the tree is used extensively in reforestation projects, urban landscaping and for its ornamental wood. The yellow flowers become really large, 4-6″ whirly-gig units which are blown far and wide. The seeds also have pickery spines that cling to fur, clothes or wherever they can get a grip. I painted these as part of an ongoig study of seeds, my interest in these being their enormous size. These are painted full scale.
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Tamboril
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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Philodendron
Philodendron, 12×9″, watercolor on 140# HP paper
If you are a philodendron, the Tropic of Capricorn is where you want to live, not in the upper latitudes clinging to life in an office planter, overwatered, underfed, starved for daylight.
Here the size and variety of this species is vast. Plants which are scrawny potted slips in the US are as big as a house in Brasil, co-habiting with even bigger plants as they climb, coil and wind skyward. Their closed pods are the size of a liter Thermos bottle. When the pod (blossom) opens it reveals a huge ivory anther. After fertilization the blossom closes. Why? I don’t know, yet. I walk past this philodendron daily and always look to see what’s new.
Philodendron Pods
Philodendron Leaves and Pods
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Goose Preening
Goose Preening, Campinas, Brasil, 12×9″, watercolor on Arches 140# CP
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Edwardo’s Patio
Edwardo’s Patio, 12×9″, watercolor, 2016
Edwardo invited us to dinner last weekend. He has a highrise apartment in downtown Campinas, Brasil. The view’s great from the seventeenth floor and his deck is enormous and totally private. I was caught by the combination of geometry and airy openess and painted it in tribute to built spaces.
Downtown Campinas, SP, Brasil, looking northwest
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Tropical Sun and Shade
Tropical Sun and Shade, 140# h0t press watercolor paper
A couple years ago when I decided to paint with watercolors I found a book by Tom Hoffaman, Watercolor Painting, 2012, http://hoffmannwatercolors.com. I got a digital copy of it and refer to it frequently. Tom put out a post today about his upcoming teaching schedule for this and next year so I checked out his blog. Reading it led to the painting above.
Tom is very clear-headed in his approach to painting, suggesting that all paintings initially be directed by identifying the value, wetness, composition and color of the topic at hand and then consciously proceeding with these attributes as guides for subsequent painting. He says to place each brushstroke with purpose. That advice has resonance with me. I did a lot of architectural drawing at one point in my zigzag career and remember I well that an architectural drawing has NO superfluous marks, that every line must mean something.
Thinking on this, I did today’s painting and am pretty happy with it. Remaining mindful and attentive to each movement of the brush, how much paint and water to apply and keeping the total design in mind works way better than letting it rip in any ole direction.
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