Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “San Juan Mountains”
Telluride Colorado is a winter wonderland. Heck Most of the Colorado high country is a Winter Wonderland. Who am I kidding. This is a scene looking upstream on the frozen Ingram Creek with Mt. Ajax in the background. I had dropped my son off to go snow boarding and I wandered around taking photos since it was too cold to …
Any place in the Colorado High Country can be a good place for trekking. This 20×30 oil painting depicts a solo high country trekker following a trail through some beautiful terrain in Yankee Boy Basin out of Ouray, Colorado. Summers can have dramatic skies and can be very unpredictable with associated weather. Often it doesn’t last long but it can be …
“Drama in the High Country” is the first of a series of paintings I am starting. Smaller plein air studies and photography will yield to larger more significant paintings done in the studio featuring the Colorado High Country, my backyard. The idea for these paintings was inspired by a video I watched in which Cory Trepanier, a Canadian artist, ventured into the …
Below Mt. Sneffles in the San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado.
The golden color of the aspen trees in Colorado in the fall months, beginning in September are a feast for the eyes. This scene is in what is locally called Willow Swamp in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado with Mt. Sneffels in the background.. The fence seen here is called a “worm” fence because of the way it “wiggles” …
The San Miguel River is a favorite of mine for fly fishing. It runs down from the high country over near Telluride, Colorado in the San Juan Mountains. Of course combining the fall colors and a day on the river is pretty hard to beat. An original 21 x 28 image watercolor using professional grade Winsor & Newton paints in a hand …