Red-Winged Black Bird

Robert Burridge - combined media on Fabriano Watercolor paper 10x10 $275
Birds... my latest inspiration. I have no idea where or when this all started. For sometime now, I have been wanting to create a series of black and grey paintings of Red Winged Black Birds. Birds appeal to me. Their flight, their delicacy, their vulnerability. Everything works inside of them. A perfect design, like an egg. If I had to paint someone else’s vision or someone else’s point of view, I would burn out quickly. I would be copying someone else’s dream. But when I paint a subject I am drawn to, I embrace it! I make it my own. I’ll paint the subject over and over again. Before long, I’ve got another series established. Combined media: acrylic and Derwent watersoluble pencil.

Last Snow

Vince Fazio 9x12 Oil on canvas panal SOLD
This painting was painted on a ground color of cadmium orange, the color has a way of glowing through the whole painting. I enjoy experimenting with different ground colors or underpaintings usually a very strong warm or cool.

In the Potato Patch

Libby Caldwell, Oil on Canvas, 9 x 12, SOLD
The late afternoon sunlight seems amplified as it shines through the plastic bag, making it the lightest and brightest form in this painting. The figures and the foliage are dappled in softer light.

Autumn Color

Robert Burridge - acrylic on paper 10x10 $275
This 10" x 10" acrylic on Fabriano paper is one of my "Loose and Juicy Landscapes." As part of my morning warmup exercises, I sometimes make a mess - I put lots of color down randomly with a paper towel, my fingers and a big brush. Then I do negative shape painting to reveal the colorful "tree." Remains me of the glorious autumn color back east, where I grew up

Desert Colors 6" x 8"

Cody DeLong
Oil on canvas panel, 6"x8" $250
This was a scene off of Bill Grey road, I had been tracking a herd antelope in the area and finally got a photo of one that I wanted before they ran off over a hill. I looked to the south and saw this scene, it was kind of stormy that day and I had to hurry to capture the light effects but I think I pulled it off. It reminds me of that special day every time I look at it.

Pink Bows

Betsey Nelson oil on canvas panel 7x5 $220
How much information for a small painting of a person? Always a question for me but more so in such a small painting. Less is best. It allows for the viewer to become more involved. Their story completes the painting process.

Painting with Joella I

Bill Fravel
Watercolor on paper 11" x 14" $350
This was my first time painting plein air with Joella Jean Mahoney, the legendary Arizona painter. We set up below Cathedral Rock, painted and talked about our dogs.

Red Heart Air Balloon

Robert Burridge - acrylic on paper 10x10 $275
This 10" x 10" acrylic on Fabriano paper is one of my Heart Air Balloon series. I do these first thing in the morning as my "Sketch and Warmups." I love typography. I could not help using the painting name as part of the texture.

Cathedral Rock

Larisa Aukon
oil on panel, 16" x 12", $800

It is a plein air painting painted on location in Sedona just before the Christmas. My goal is to finish plein air pieces outside without further studio editing.

Santa Fe

Betsey Nelson oil on canvas panel 5x7 $220
This was done from a photo just as an experiment to see how much information could be painted on a 5x7 panel(alot). Most of the painting was done within an hour. Finishes where added over the course of several days. Most times less is more and as you spend more time with your paintings you realize the strength will be in less not more information.

A Little Bird Told Me

Robert Burridge - Collage on canvas 5x5x1.5 $220
My miniature canvases are small mythical studies of quick, short stories.
I get in and I get out, using a minimal pallette of colors and strong designs. This daily process feeds me for my larger collages.

Ladies in Sunglasses

Libby Caldwell, Oil on Canvas, 9 x 12, $210
Walking through a sunlit archway into another sunny courtyard at Tlaquepaque, here in Sedona, two women enjoy their vacations.

Sarah in the Landscape

Vince Fazio 9x12 Oil on canvas panal $140
A mix of palette knife and brushwork, this painting was inspired by a recent trip to some reflecting pools that form periodically on a rock outcropping near Cathedral Rock. I had planned to have my daughter play Narcissus at the edge of the water but there was too much wind to see reflections! So rather than a mythical theme we found a simpler 'moment in the landscape'.

Toward Jerome

Bill Fravel Watercolor on paper 3.5" x 5.5" $125
We're all but brushes on canvas. Some make better points.

On The Hill

Larisa Aukon
oil on canvas, 5" x 7", $400

This is a study for larger studio painting. The challenge was to show a sunny winter day with cool shadows and abundance of colors.