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I love Alpinist Magazine, a super-quality climbing magazine.
This issue you can see my painting, FREE, depicting Red Mountains I, II and III, here in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado! [more]
It's spring in the Colorado Rockies, playtime in playland.
Is it time for shorts, or snow boots? The mountains keep us guessing. Some days I wake up to snow-covered bulbs poking their heads out of frozen dirt, thawing as the day goes on. Spring in the mountains is nature's tease, constantly keeping us on our toes.
As I transition from windshield scraping mornings to bike riding afternoons, this spring energy is exciting and hopeful. [more]
A little painting I made for Axel Charrette, who passed away this month at age two. Your presence will be greatly missed, and we will continue to love your family in every way possible, in our community. Love. [more]
A Trip to the Zoo – Telluride Exhibit
A few shots from my current Telluride, Colorado show. On display until March 6 at La Cocina in Telluride. Stop by if you're around! [more]
Fuzzy lands in the midst of blossoms, just a wee ball of fluff with one round eye
searching out the ripest berry
the brightest flower.
Where is the Door to the Tavern? one scrap of paper says
Fuzzy bounces up and down on one gold branch
because he can
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Just wrapped up my entire series of animal paintings and headed up to Telluride tomorrow to hang the show at La Cocina Restaurant on the main street of Telluride – stop by [more]
A Trip to the Zoo
In the final stretch for preparing for my Telluride show at La Cocina restaurant, which I'll hang next Wednesday. The show was inspired by my trip to the New Orleans zoo and will hang from Feb. 6 to March 6. It's been a busy month, and all my creativity has poured into this zebra's polka dots. (And a few logos!)
Elephant, leopard, zebra, flamingo, purple back starling – it should be one colorful wall at La Cocina! [more]
Feel Your Heart Skip a Beat at Resource’s Wine & Chocolate Art Opening
Open your heart to wine, chocolate and art Thursday, February 7, from 5pm to 7pm at the Resource Gallery Valentine’s Art Opening in Ridgway.
It’s easy to shop for your sweetie and have fun doing it this year. Resource artists are creating Valentines Day collections to inspire heart-opening fun. With a glass of wine in your hand, experience Jill Rikkers’ brand new line of metal heart art – featuring antique tins from Prince [more]
I know sometimes zoos can be less-than-uplifting places to visit. But through the eyes of three boys, running madly from zebra to elephant to snake to cotton candy – it can be the happiest day on earth.
The whimsy, the colors, the carousel, the patterns on the back of a komodo dragon. Aztec exhibits in winding tunnels... running to see wild dogs, then climb life sized spider webs. Laughter, tigers, roaring – all one big [more]
It's winter in the Colorado Rockies and I am painting a four foot pink flamingo? Why not!
Having recently spent a week in New Orleans visiting the tropical zoo, riding the trolley cars, and eating beignets, feeling the spray on an elephant fountain, soaring on a carasoul with white tigers, riding a wild hurricane simulator, and photographing my son in an alligator tank... I couldn't return home and paint mountains!
Something about [more]
I saw this upside-down biker chick illustration by Erika Lopez and couldn't help but incorporate it into this little gift for a friend. Her illustration perfectly captures the sassiness that simmers within me.
I learned of Ms. Lopez through a collage kit, bought in Boulder, that included scraps of her infamous book, "Flaming Iguanas". The little tidbits of writing had LOTS of naughty words and COMPLETELY unexpected phrases – it was [more]
