Summer Clouds on Mt. Silverheels

Mount Silverheels is a near Fourteener that sits just to the north and west of Fairplay, Colorado. It is an impressive mountain and she keeps watch over the South Park region.

 Silverheels was a dance hall girl in the mining camp of Buckskin Joe, she got her name from the silver shoes she wore. When a smallpox epidemic hit in the 1800's most left but Silverheels stayed and took care of her friends. She caught the disease and was badly scarred; retreating to a small cabin at the base of the mountain she mysteriously disappeared. Many say that a woman wearing a black veil still visits the graves of her friends in the cemetery at Buckskin Joe.

In South Park

 Colorado's South Park is a place that I hold very near and dear. I have spent a lot of time in this are and fished the area with my Grandpa and now fish it with my son.

    South Park is one of those areas that people pass through on their way to someplace fancier or more "dramatic". The beauty of Bayou Salado is not as obvious but drive southward over Kenosha Pass on 285 and you are treated to a vista that is overwhelming.

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Watercolor on 300# Lanaquarelle paper.

 Double matted $650.00

Framed in a slim black wood frame $750.00

Spruce sketch

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Englemann Spruce sketch.

I painted this watercolor on a recent camping trip. As much as i love painting in the studio I love painting outdoors a little bit more.

The Way Back a work in progress

I am just now finishing up this watercolor inspired by a fishing trip with my son. The scene is  set near Kite Lake, a high-mountain lake above Alma, Colorado. 

watercolor on paper      11 x 15" 

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The Way Back    a work in progress

Crow Flight

'Crow Flight'    acrylic on canvas       10 x 30"                  $750.00

South Park

 'South Park'   acrylic on canvas     16 x 20"         $850.00

   The middle fork of the South Platte wanders and turns as it makes it way through the grassy flats of South Park.

A Horse drawing in progress

  I have wanted to get back into my horse drawing for a long time and the other night I did just that. This drawing was done in pencil, Conte crayon and acrylic paint. It is fairly big ( 30 x 40" ) and is ready to be transferred to canvas.

Master-label

  A very kind woman recently remarked that I am a master of watercolor and for that kindness I am  truly thankful. But. I am concerned that the term 'master' carries with it an implication or indictment of finality, that in mastering something there is no longer anything in the medium to be discovered. One of the reasons that watercolor fascinates is the possibility of something new. Bob Ross spoke of  "happy accidents " and that happiness is something I look forward too.