9″x12″, acylic. Warm up exercise just for fun. Sometimes I get tired of trying to make things look realistic. Sometimes I just want to play. This is one of those times 🙂

8″×10″, pastel. Painted at the Benedictine  Monastery  in pecos, NM at a workshop this weekend.

According to my instructor, Lorenzo Chavez and classmates this was their favorite piece of mine. Doesn’t look like anything I was looking at, as we were painting in Plein air but I was trying to practice ‘notan’, our lesson for the day; the point of which is to have clear areas of light and dark in a painting…

Challenge D, of challenges A-M, for http://www.letspaintnewmexico.com  5″×7″,acrylic. I challenge myself to paint landscapes!