No, I haven’t been in North Carolina all of this time nor “on the road” nor lost in the Harley dealership. Just been busy…busy framing pictures and busy painting. That’s a good thing I guess. I’ve got some really cool portraits done from the Stars of Sturgis collection I’ve been working on which I’ll post in the next few days, as well as a few more paintings of the the fall colors here in Colorado. Of course they are just a memory now as we have moved on into winter.

This is an 8×10 studio painting I recently finished. It was done from a series of photos I took this fall. The colors this year were just wonderful. I got a wealth of material to paint from. The fall color in aspen trees is best viewed with back lighting…looking at the leaves with the sun behind them. This illuminates the color in the leaves. This scene however was chosen for the long shadows and low light which was just as effective. I used a palette knife to create the warm highlights on the aspen trunks. I love painting the aspen trunks. So much character to them.

This painting is available from my studio. Please contact me if you are interested.