Author: InspiredBlogs
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Hopi Clown In Contemplation
Oil paint on canvas. 14″ x 18″, $1,200. The Hopi Clown Kachina plays an important role in the ceremonial dances on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona. He is often depicted with a watermelon because it’s considered a real delicacy, especially in the heat of the Arizona desert, and because it adds color to his…
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Ying Yang, Rock Water
Oil paint on canvas. 20″ x 24″, $2,300. The presence of male and female in nature is one of the universal truths that appears for us to appreciate. The solidity of stone and the fluidity of water is a beautiful melding of Ying and Yang in nature – how the water sculpts the stone, how…
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Innocence
Oil paint on canvas. 8″ x 10″, $400. In meditation we seek simplicity and peaceful quietude. Often in my work I am thinking of someone who would want that in a painting because our lives today are so filled with abundance in information and visual communication. This piece is the ultimate expression of simple, clean…
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Moon over Marvelous
Oil paint on canvas. 24″ x 30″, $2,700. The vast open sky and land of the Western Slope isn’t often thought of as a Colorado landscape, but the joy and freedom that comes from such an open big-sky landscape is incomparable. Low in the sky is a beautiful daylight full moon, blessing the viewer. –…
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First Rain on the Western Slope – 2
Oil paint on canvas board. 8″ x 10″. $450. SOLD. Some of the fields on the Western Slope often turn a beautiful golden color. In the early morning sunlight, clear and clean, you can see bright spots in the gold, with orange and brown tints. With the San Juans in the distance and a building…
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Raspberry Sky
Oil paint on canvas board. 11″ x 14″. $850. Pink and blue sky with reflections in the landscape. High pinyon pine on the western slope, painted from inspiration on the way to Nucla from Montrose. After a rain in the early evening a sunset lit the sky with pink fire. The dirt road I was…
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Soul Storm
“Soul Storm” 30″ x 40″ Oil on canvas, framed. $5,750 For all those who live in northern Arizona, the miracle of a storm is hard to imagine. The air is dry in this area and so when a storm rises up and rain comes down, you can smell the rain for miles. Flash floods of…
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Betsy’s Formation
“Betsy’s Formation”. 22″ x 28″ Original Oil on canvas, framed. $2,950 In Flagstaff, Arizona I had a neighbor who had the most beautiful pastel rendering of this brilliant desert formation captured by his artist friend, Betsy. After my own adventure of over a year painting this part of the Navajo reservation, I never actually saw…
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Ancient Symbols
“Ancient Symbols” 20″ x 24″Oil on canvas. $2,300 When visiting the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona, you can’t help but feel the ancient history of the land. All those who have come before, all those who live on the land now, and all those who will come in the future. Even through that timeline, these…
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Spirit Spring
“Spirit Spring” 16″ x 20″ Oil on canvas, framed. $1,500 The Navajo’s sacred source of water, their only source of water except for rain. This spring is used to water and irrigate their crops of sacred corn and other eatable plants. This painting was done deep in winter when the sage and other range plants…