All Posts from February, 2007

Now just a few days ago I was bragging about the flowers blossoming and Spring being in full bloom. All that changed today. Take a look.My studio from the parking lot. The view out my studio window.

I feel like I’m catching on to it a little. With a nod to my hero David Drummond, I used a photo I shot near Bullfrog on Lake Powell and tried to capture the glassy undulating feel of the [...]

Photo above l to r: Ben Rogers the library architect and his wife Michelle; Ben’s mother and Nellie’s sister-in-law Anna Marie Rogers Budge; Nellie Lee; and Roland Lee standing in [...]

What a gorgeous southern Utah day it was today! I was invited to join a few other artists to demonstrate painting at the huge Kayenta Art Festival. The setting is absolutely spectacular with the [...]

I have participated in the Sears Invitational Art Show for some years, which is held annually in the Eccles Art Gallery at Dixie State College. I entered two very large paintings this year and [...]

My daughter Jennie and my two little granddaughters Emma and Ellie came to spend the week with us. I always like to let the grandkids have a turn painting in my studio. Today it was Emma’s [...]

“Winter Reflections” 14 x 21 transparent watercolor by Roland Lee This is the painting I demonstrated in my February workshop. I had the class participants work from the same resource [...]

I enjoyed spending the last two days with some wonderful artists at my February watercolor workshop. I took a different approach with this group, and we did a lot more hands-on work actually [...]

In late fall Zion Canyon is peaceful and quiet. The crowds are gone, the streams have dwindled to standing pools, and the leaves have begun to fall. In this scene the afternoon glow on the cliffs [...]

Jane Juber, owner of the Mission Gallery and Authentique Gallery in St. George, Utah, put on a wonderful three-day show featuring six of her gallery artists. Last night she invited about 80 of [...]

This is a small painting in the Lake Powell Series. I hope to have about ten small paintings ready for the Museum show in March. However right now I am concentrating on some of the larger pieces [...]

I put the finishing touches on a painting of Ivins Reservoir today. It’s a place I love to visit and paint. A tiny reservoir in the middle of the desert at Kayenta, Utah. It’s too [...]