Now I bring everything into sharp focus and complete the foreground trees. The finished painting is big and dramatic. I love the power and strength in the stone face. This is one of my favorite [...]

After painting in the sky, as I usually do, I begin laying in broad washes of color across the cliffs, with no regard for detail or edges. I am using yellow ochre, along with Cad Red Light and [...]

Once the first washes are dry, I move back into the cliff face and start delineating some of the form, shadows, and surface features of the rock. I rough in the foreground using very dark [...]

After painting the silouettes of the Pinion and Juniper trees I go back to work on the cliffs, carefully identifying shadows and fissures in the rock face. This is fun, but time consuming. Since [...]

This close-up shows how I rough in the foreground rocks and shrubs. While drying, I splatter clear water into the washes using a flat brush and flicking it against my finger. The purpose is to [...]

I usually paint on a drawing board which is tiltable so I can control the flow of water. But as I move into the detail stages of a larger painting I am more comfortable placing the work on an [...]

“Natures Sculpture” 24 x 46 watercolor. Arches 140 lb. cold pressed watercolor paper. I first soak my paper in the bath tub, then stapled it to my backing board. When dry I carefully [...]