Dancing Leaves

Dancing Leaves 16x20

This was painted up Pinos Creek Road - I was drawn to the color and was able to actually get off of the road to paint as well- an added bonus.  I had a hard time trying to keep my palette in the shade- something that I was determined to do- I know that had the sun been shining on my canvas, this painting would have been about 2 shades darker.  This is a large plein air for me so I moved rather quickly -

The Road to Pinos Creek

Pinos Creek View

14x18

I haven't been posting my paintings as well as I should so I will do some catching up here.  This painting was done at the beginning of fall, up Pinos Creek Road west of Del Norte, CO; the trees were just beginning to turn gold and although I was interested in painting aspen, I saw this scene and decided to pull over and paint.  This was done at about 4 in the afternoon and clouds were starting to boil in.  This was difficult to paint as the sun played peekaboo the whole time.