This commissioned work pushed me to try two things I’ve never done before. One, paint a picture of a golf course. Two, paint a city skyline. Happily it was essential for me to play a round or two at Southern Hills to research the scene.
Tough duty!
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Marshall
Here’s a small painting with a high degree of color tension. It almost vibrates. Here’s why. Red toward red violet tints overlayed with red-orange toward orange color creates two thirds of a dynamic split complementary color relationship. Throw in green and blue green and the crazy color composition is complete. Vivid!
What do you think?
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Marshall
This decidedly non literal painting was inspired by one of the hundreds of trips I’ve made through Bad Rock Canyon. Sometimes, after I begin a painting the imagery takes me in an unexpected direction.
When that happens I do my best to pay attention and enjoy the ride.
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Marshall
I’m happy to be back at my home away from home, Ventana Fine Art in Santa Fe. And it is especially gratifying to see red dots on the gallery walls. 10 of the 36 paintings in the show have already been sold and the exhibit doesn’t open until tomorrow!
Join us for the party from 4-6 at 400 Canyon Road. I’d be delighted to see you!
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Marshall
After weeks of painting small works I’m happy to be back on reasonably sized canvasses! Here’s a 60×48 of the Norway maple trees we planted outside our home a few years back. Red!
Red!
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Marshall
For those of you who have travelled through the canyon towns of Hungry Horse, Martin City, and Coram this will be a familiar scene. On the way to West Glacier Highway 2 winds past mile after mile of dense lodgepole pine forest with the ridges occasionally revealed through the nearly ever present cloud cover.
My country!
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Marshall
More homegrown inspiration. When we moved up to Lone Pine hill nearly twenty years ago we started planting trees. Here’s a look at a young Norway maple just west of the group of aspen we put in the north of our house in the area we loving refer to as “the dog yard.”
After a couple dozen recent 12×12 paintings I’m starting to get comfortable with such a small canvas!
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Marshall
We had a late snow storm earlier this month. I started this sketch just as the last of the snow melted. The painting turned out to be subtle and almost monochromatic. Very uncharacteristic for me.
Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks! I’m simply trying to live life with my eyes open. You never know what you’ll see.
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Marshall
The western larch conifers turn a spectacular shade of yellow and gold every fall here in our part our the country. Here’s a small painting of one larch standing in front of a background of Norway maples.
Two of my favorite trees!
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Marshall
The flowering crabapple trees, in fact all the flowering trees, are spectacular in Northwest Montana this spring. I’m not sure I’ve ever witnessed such an abundant display! Close to home inspiration is such a luxury.
This painting is another in the series of 12×12 inch works I’m engaged in. I’m learning to paint small.
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Marshall
