Mt. Helena with Winter Trees. oil on board, 6 x 6"

$125

                                            Helmsville Turnoff,  pastel, 5 x 7", $125

Sieben Willows, pastel, 6 x 8"

Deerborn in Summer Smoke

Dearborn in Summer Smoke,  pastel,  8 x 10", $225

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This was a demo I did last night for my pastel class demonstrating atmospheric perspective.  There's lots of that in Montana this summer with thick smoke from all the fires. 
The Missouri River at Deerborn, Montana.  

Canyon Creek Field

 Canyon Creek Field, pastel,6 x 8", $125

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Mountain Hay

Mountain Hay,  pastel,  8 x 11", $250

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Down Canyon

This is the view from Mountain Village at Big Sky, Montana.  I had gotten up before dawn to watch the sun rise over the mountains.  It was a beautiful subtle sky with thin clouds that reflected the rosy hues.  To capture the breadth of the view I decided to paint on three separate panels and frame them together.  The frame is a beautiful black frame with a glossy finish.  


Down Canyon, Triptych, oil on gessoboard, 6 x 24"
   $600.

Rocks and River

Rocks and River,  oil on canvas, 16 x 20", $1250.

This scene is along the Missouri River near Cascade, Montana.

There was a full moon rising in a very clear sky but there was a pink glow on everything from the setting sun.

Big Sky

   Lone Mountain dominates the landscape at Big Sky.  I got up early one morning to watch the sun illuminate the peak and work her way down her flanks.  No snow, it was early fall.  


Lone Mountain Sans Snow.  oil on gessoboard, 
6 x 8",  $150

New Work for Russell Week

                                            Huddle,  oil on board,  11 x 14" ,  $600.




     Russell Week, for those of you non western art followers,  is a big week for western art in, of all places,  Great Falls, Montana, where I went to high school.   I never would have thought in the 60's that Great Falls would become an art town.  But,  thanks to Charles Marion Russell and his followers,  the C.M. Russell Museum started an annual auction and it has grown into one of the biggest auctions of western art bringing in over $1 million in sales.  The major hotels turn their rooms into galleries for the hundreds of artists that come to exhibit their paintings and  sculpture.

      I will be participating for the first time in the Out West Art Show in the Heritage Inn.  The dates are March 17th - 19th.  Room 175.  

      The image above is one of the new pieces that I will be exhibiting in the show.

Spring Willows

Spring Willows,  oil on board,  6x8",  $200 

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Spring Hay

   The greening of the landscape this time of year is a discovery for me.  The colors of winter in Montana were very different from Maine.  All winter the muted colors of the landscape were livened up with those yellow orange trees that I still have not been able to identify. (A species of willow?  Too wide to be cottonwoods.  I'm asking around and will find out soon. ) The willows along creeks were pink red orange magenta depending on the light.  Winter fields were ochre straw beige or white with snow.  And all these contrasted with the black shapes of the angus cows, blue mountains, pink mountains with snow at sunset.
      But now spring.  The black angus shapes now have smaller versions among them - calves!   Fields are becoming yellow green. Those red willows are turning yellow-ochre green.  The bare cottonwoods are now leafing out with yellow beigey green of the newly budding leaves.  The light is different, too.  I have to get up very early or be out there between 8 and 9 in the evening to get those long shadows I like.  At these high altitudes - nearly a mile high - the mid day light blows out any shadows and color saturation disappears.  There is usually a haze in the atmosphere but it's not air pollution.  The air is clean here and it's too early for forest fires.  I'm appreciating those days with scudding clouds that give shadow and contrast to the landforms below them.

                                           Spring Hay - Blue,  oil on board, 6 x 6"
                                                 $150,  free shipping ready to frame.

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Snow in the Shadows, oil, 6 x 6"

$100,  ready to frame, free shipping 

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City Through the Trees,  oil,  5 x 7"

$100,  ready to frame, free shipping

Day 13

    This is turning out to be a very fun and worthwhile project.  I love hearing every day from people who are viewing the paintings and it's very gratifying that so many have sold.  Thank you!    I'm behind by a few so will try to catch up in the next few days.

 

                                           A Cold Day But Sunny, oil on board,  6 x 6
                                           $100,  unframed,  free shipping

                                     
This is what I saw cross country skiing on the Bill Roberts Golf Course looking toward Mt. Helena                                           

Day 2

Montana City,  oil on board, 6 x 6"

$100,  unframed,  free shipping

 Day 2 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge.  

20 % of Sales to Benefit Prickly Pear Land Trust

A current project of the Prickly Pear Land Trust is to create a greenway along Prickly Pear Creek from Montana City to the Helena Airport.  This is the view from Helena toward Montana City on a very cold afternoon.  The plume from the cement plant is illuminated by the afternoon sun.  The Elkhorn Mountains provide the backdrop.