Apr 21
High Key Painting
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I thought it would be interesting to show one of my plein air paintings plus a picture of my...
Apr 14
High Desert Retreat
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Every year in May I teach a Watercolor Workshop in Taos, New Mexico and this is one of the...
Apr 7
City Movement
Mixed Media Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I enjoy painting cityscapes especially after it snows. This painting is of downtown Denver...
Apr 1
Growing Your Painting Skills
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Spring is here and the gardening season is fast approaching. Some of my best childhood memories...
Mar 24
Beauty In Bloom
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Last Friday, I taught a four hour zoom class on composition and I used this painting of mine as...
Mar 18
Venice Vignette
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Vignette: French word meaning a small illustration or painting which fades into its background...
Mar 10
Spring New Beginnings
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Today is the time change so now we get an extra hour of daylight. Spring is only nine days away...
Mar 3
The Pigeon Condos
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. One of the unique things about the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico are the...
Feb 25
Count Only Happy Days
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Venice is one of my favorite places on the planet and it seems to be a city created for...
Feb 18
Impressions of 17th Street
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a cityscape I painted of 17th Street in downtown Denver inspired by the watercolors of...
Feb 11
Aspen Memories
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I just finished this painting in my studio from old photographs and memory and it will be used...
Feb 4
A Study in Edges
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I recently purchased a Hahnemuhle sketchbook with tan colored toned paper and, for my first...
Jan 29
The White Picket Fence
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Starting on the 6th of February 2024, I am teaching a four week in-person class at the Art...
Jan 21
Sketchbook Spontaneity
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a page from my Hahnemuhle sketchbook with two images from Taos, New Mexico. Sketchbooks...
Jan 15
Sunlit Adobe Wall
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. The Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico is a handsome rambling adobe building that...
Jan 8
Exotic Blooms
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Orchids are one of my favorite subjects and this painting is on a full sheet watercolor size 22...
Dec 31, 2023
Simplicity
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Happy New Year everyone! As we venture into 2024, I am thinking how much I enjoy painting and...
Dec 25, 2023
Happy Holidays
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I wanted to send out a painting full of color and richness. I remember how happy I was when I...
Dec 17, 2023
View From The North Window
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. The view from the the north windows on the second floor of the Art students League of Denver...
Dec 10, 2023
Try Something New
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a painting I did in my Denver Botanic Gardens Workshop last summer and it was fun...
Dec 4, 2023
Planning Ahead
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. The effective use of white paper is one of the hallmarks of watercolor painting. It is like a...
Nov 27, 2023
Adobe Nocturne
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. One of the places where we paint in my Taos Watercolor Workshop is the small community of...
Nov 20, 2023
Encountering A Deer
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. In February 2024, I will be teaching an ONLINE CLASS titled "Landscape with Animal(s) in...
Nov 12, 2023
Creating A Heightened Mood
Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. In my Watercolor Salon, we just studied the work of Edward Hopper and how he used figures in...
