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By stephen, January 26, 2010 2:57 am

If you like this painting or any others like it contact me by e-mail.

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By stephen, January 24, 2010 8:39 pm

I found this nice little plein air study from my trip this(2009) summer to Colorado. I was there as part of a painting workshop taught by noted California plein air artist Ray Roberts. This little work is for sale at my ebay store. Another painting I put up for sale on ebay this week is a Study of Salem pond. I painted it in July of 2009. I hope someone will give these two little gems a home I enjoyed the beautiful outdoors as I made them now hopefully someone will give them a home. In my studio sometimes, I feel like the little old lady who lived a shoe who had so many children(painitngs) she(I) didn’t know what to do. Enjoy some of my painting demos while your here and contact me if you are interested in giving any of my work a home. I should be posting another time lapse studio painting soon, so check back soon.
I painted both of these little paintings using my Guerrilla painting”plein air” box it is a sweet little painting box!

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By stephen, January 24, 2010 3:15 am

Wow! I completed my newest double Arch painting. Its the third time I have used it in a composition and the first time in snow. The snow added an unexpected graphic quality that I enjoy. I painted it using only Yellow Ocher, English red and French Ultramarine. Along with white and a tiny bit of black. I like to use a limited palette, it helps me create a unified color scheme. I plan on posting a time lapse of this painting tomorrow so watch for it.( I also hope to take a better still image and replace this one which has a nasty bit of glare on the top half.) This newest example of my Utah landscape paintings is 40 inches tall and 30 inches wide.
My next studio painting will have a bit of a tonalist quality not that I am a tonalist. I have been in the arches in the fog and it is quite an experience both the area around the windows district and over at delicate arch both areas were magnificent in the mist cold fog. I plan on painting some smaller versions of the arches in the fog because I am temporarily out of larger canvases.
If you are interested in this or any other paintings like it please e-mail me for details. Check my ebay store and see what small plein air or studio study works I have there.

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By stephen, January 23, 2010 12:47 am

Wow! its been a week since my last post. I hope you are a return reader. Enjoy some of my time lapse You Tube videos posted below. Tonight I am working on a 40 x 30 oil painting of Utah’s famous Double Arch. This picture is of it as I started working on it tonight. Its snowing outside right now so I am glad to be in my studio all warm and cozy.

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By stephen, January 17, 2010 6:24 am

Greetings, here is the time lapse video of my most recent oil painting of Utah. I hope you enjoy it. Next up Double Arch in the snow.One of my next posts will be an update on that painting!

If you are interested in this painting or one like it please e-mail me for details or check my home page for paintings for sale. Check my ebay store out, see what plein air or small studies I have for sale or auction there.

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By stephen, January 16, 2010 3:55 am

I have been working on my South Window in the Snow painting this week. I think it is very close to being complete. I am always surprised as I paint by the little things I learn and re-learn about color or value relationships or the sense of rhythm I see and feel as I activate a landscape. It is almost as if I forget half of what I think I know about painting between each painting. With that said I will tell you that I plan on painting the Double Arch in snow for my next project. Double Arch is only about a half a mile walk from the South Window so they have virtually the same geology (although the Entrada sandstone is a little lumpier at the base of Double Arch). Because I visited both arches on the same day at about the same time I hope what I have learned in the South Window painting will still be in my brain as I start the Double Arch painting. Scroll down and watch my Corona Arch time-lapse video (if you have not seen it yet). I have had a bunch of good feedback about how cool the video is, now I need someone to feel that way about the painting. If that person is you e-mail about how it or one like it can be yours. Check out my Ebay store and see what plein air or small studio studies I have for sale or auction this week. Thanks for visiting. Check back soon to see the finished paintings.

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By stephen, January 12, 2010 4:54 am

Here is a 30 x 40 canvas I am working on this week in the studio. I am doing another time lapse video of this painting but it might be a week until I am done so I thought I would share this little painting in progress. I do love the way the snow clings to the shadow side of everything in the canyon country of Utah. It my be a sunny desert, but trust me its a dang cold desert. Last November Rhonda and I camped over near Goblin Valley and we nearly froze! For those of you hoping for some plein air work from me sorry the days are to short. I decided to dedicate myself to the studio until late spring so I can finish my day of teaching and then get to a good location in time to actually set up and paint. So enjoy the studio work!

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By stephen, January 8, 2010 11:53 pm

Here is the complete time lapse vidoe of me painting my first version of Corona Arch.

I hope you enjoy the audio track I added. My sped up brush made kind of an annoying static sound. If you are interested in this or any other paintings hereon my web site e-mail me.

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By stephen, January 8, 2010 4:37 am

I just completed my first version of “Corona Arch Morning”. It is an oil painting. It is a 30 x 40 inches on stretched cotton canvas. The painting was inspired by a trip Rhonda and I took here in October of 2009. We tried to get to the arch near sun up, we were close but we just missed it. Even though we missed the sunrise we had the entire area around Corona and Bow tie arch all to ourselves for more than an hour which was amazing as Corona is a popular hike. By the time we hiked back to our car there were two dozen people including one group that was rappelling down in the window of the arch. It looked kind of fun.

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By stephen, January 5, 2010 2:23 am

Here is my painting which is featured in”Painters of Utah’s Canyons and Deserts”
By Donna L. Poulton, Vern G. Swanson
Its title, “Deimos” after one of the moons of Mars. I painted it during the 1990′s this rock pile is located near Loa, Utah in a side canyon near Fish Lake. I love the way the lichens in that area color the lava boulders a very light green. That green blends right in with the sage brush.
I drove some paintings and drawing out to Price, Utah this afternoon about a Four hour trip so I don’t think I will be painting much this evening. hopefully my Corona Arch painting will be completed by this weekend. check out the small paintings I have on ebay. Thanks for checking in.