Jun 22, 2019
Painting On Location
Plein air painting remains one of my favorite things to do and this painting was done as a demonstration at one of my plein air workshops....
May 27, 2019
Colors of Taos
The Taos Watercolor workshop for 2019 is over and I am back in Denver. Thank you to the artists who took the workshop and made it such a...
May 27, 2019
High Desert Painting
I am at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House for the first night of my Taos Watercolor Workshop. Tomorrow we begin five days of plein air...
May 27, 2019
Colors of Taos
Next weekend I leave for Taos New Mexico where I will be teaching my annual watercolor workshop. This is a painting of the entrance to...
May 27, 2019
Beautiful Day In The Gardens
Today was the third and final day of my May Botanic Gardens Workshop. I will have another workshop each month this summer and you can...
May 27, 2019
Spring Is Here!
As I looked through an opening in the foliage at Denver Botanic Gardens I was struck with this composition. The blossoming tree with the...
May 6, 2019
Denver Botanic Gardens Watercolor Workshop
I just had my Denver Botanic Gardens Watercolor Workshop on Friday, Saturday Sunday, May 3-5, 2019, and it was a beautiful weekend,...
Apr 21, 2019
Another Word For Rainbow
Did you know that the word iris means rainbow? What a perfect analogy. The iris displays in Denver Botanic gardens are spectacular in...
Apr 15, 2019
Loosen Up!
Painting on location in Botanic Gardens is a time to have fun, loosen up, and compose with rich and dramatic colors. This is a painting...
Apr 15, 2019
Excitement With Color
I am in Phoenix attending a business workshop and seeing this painting has me wishing I was painting in Denver Botanic Gardens where the...
Apr 15, 2019
Excitement With Flowers
I am in Steamboat Springs Colorado teaching a watercolor workshop on painting flowers. I used to live in Steamboat and it has been like...
Mar 25, 2019
Move Your Studio Outdoors
This is a painting I did as a demonstration in my workshop at Botanic Gardens last summer. It is always fun and challenging to organize...
Mar 18, 2019
Between Blue and Yellow
Because of the holiday I decided to talk about painting the color green. If you enjoy painting landscapes, understanding as much as you...
Mar 18, 2019
Afternoon in Venice
Winter in Denver has me dreaming of a painting trip to Venice. This watercolor painting depicts one of the small canals where laundry...
Mar 4, 2019
High Desert Beauty
This painting of the mission with the aspens trees is in a quaint little town just outside of Taos. This site is one of our favorite...
Mar 4, 2019
French Ambience
Years ago in the early days of the Art Students League of Denver, the director and some of the instructors traveled to Southern France...
Feb 18, 2019
Steamboat Watercolor Workshop 2019
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS COLORADO WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP August 15, 16, & 17, 2019 Join me for my Steamboat Watercolor Workshop in August 2019! ...
Feb 17, 2019
Don't Give Up
Winter is perfect for setting up something special in my studio like these white orchids. My plan was to offset the orchids with a dark...
Feb 11, 2019
Watercolor Sunset Painting
When my studio was on South Pearl Street in Denver, I did a small watercolor painting of this scene then recently I did this larger...
Feb 4, 2019
Color Secret's
I talk to people all the time who struggle with their paintings and often it is because they don't understand the proper use of color...
Jan 28, 2019
Page From My New Book
I am completing a book of Drawings and Paintings of Denver and this is one of the pages. The book will be full of images and history of...
Jan 28, 2019
New Ways To Paint
To paint loose expressive watercolors, confident strokes are needed and who better to study than John Singer Sargent. The man was a...
Jan 22, 2019
Afternoon In Taos
This is a painting of the Couse House from my Taos workshop in May. By the way, there are still two spaces available for this years Taos...
Jan 7, 2019
Taos In Watercolor 2019 Registration
Dennis Pendleton will teach both the beginner and seasoned artist how to convey movement in their work at this year's 5-day watercolor...
