Enchanted Walk on the Inner Basin Trail Our annual trek up to Lockett Meadow to see fall colors happens about the first weekend of October. My wife and I first hiked here together exactly eleven years ago, during which we were engaged. Well this year, since I was busy with a studio tour, we made it up on a Monday and allowed for a …
Upcoming Studio Tour and New Oil Paintings
Upcoming Prescott Artist Studio Tour is September 30, October 1 and 2, 2016! I will once again be part of the the Prescott Area Studio Tour, featuring new paintings completed over the summer months. The studio tour is put on by Prescott’s own Mountain Artists Guild. You can find out more by following this link: prescottstudiotour.com. I will be at …
Sunday Picnic at Granite Basin Lake
The natural landscape around Prescott, Arizona is diverse and Granite Mountain is one place that holds it’s own unique qualities. Granite Mountain looks like a sleeping dragon from a distance. However, up close, it looks like a castle of granite boulders strewn in odd angles. Granite Basin Lake is a small man-made lake at the base of Granite Mountain, stocked …
Hiking in the Indian Heaven Wilderness
Every year, my wife and I head up to Washington for a summer vacation. Last year, I hiked with a friend in the Cascades to Big Heart Lake. After that hike, we decided to make it a tradition to hike again next year. This year, my friend chose something a little closer: the Indian Heaven Wilderness. We accessed the trailhead, …
New Oil Paintings to Premier at the 42nd Annual Phippen Museum Western Art Show and Sale, May 28-30
Before I even knew I would be part of the 42nd Annual Phippen Art Show and Sale for the year of 2016, I was planning and completing new oil paintings. I suppose this may seem unusual for an artist to be so well organized, yet this is what I do. I don’t work so well under a lot of pressure. …
Prescott Winter Hike – Deep Snow and Big Views
A winter storm finished it’s work in northern Arizona, blanketing higher elevations with up to two and half feet of snow. I really wanted to go to Flagstaff, but I knew a weekend drive up that way was a recipe for a busy, crowded time on the road. Flagstaff attracts gobs of people from the Phoenix area whenever it snows …
Winter Snow at Lynx Lake
New Fallen Snow at Lynx Lake – Prescott, AZ Have you ever experienced those winter mornings where everything is pristine? On a whim, my wife suggested a quick trip over to Lynx Lake to check out the winter snow from the day and night before. It was bitterly cold, our car thermometer read 17 degrees. We bundled up ourselves and …
Snow at Thumb Butte – Prescott, AZ
Snow in Prescott, AZ We get a little excited here in Prescott when it snows (“we” as in my little family). Everything looks fresh and new. The forests look coated with frosting and the rocks are glazed with icing. This is only about an inch of snow at Thumb Butte near Prescott, AZ. My son loved hiking up the trail …
New Studio and a New Oil Painting
We sold our home and I lost my long-time studio of the last 9.5 years. This was the studio I converted from a storage room, insulated it, hung plywood and painted everything, added light fixtures, and designed storage for inventory and wet paintings. The ultimate plan now is to find a new place with more space and a potential for a …
Fall Colors at West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon
The beauty of Autumn at West Fork is incomparable. West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon is a fourteen mile side-canyon. In West Fork it is cool, shady, and lush. I go to West Fork for the unique rock formations and water. If it weren’t for the fall colors demanding my attention this time of year, West Fork is still worth …