Western Landscape Painting, Fine Art, Utah, Moab, Mountains,”River to Moab” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

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Western Landscape Painting, Fine Art, Utah, Moab, Mountains,”River to Moab” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 FRESH OFF THE EASEL..

 18"x30" Acrylic on Canvas Board/Available

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 Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work

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Day 44, Project 125 Ranch House, plein air paintings BECKY JOY

© 2013 Becky Joy      Day 44, Ranch House    oil    6 inches x 6 inches  

This composition is reminiscent of yesterday's. I've been using the small paintings painted in the studio as a way to experiment, but also trying to find ones that I want to paint larger. What struck me about this scene was the grasses and the fence posts. I may do something similar to this painting, creating more foreground with the fence posts. I'll have to play with this one some more.

After painting this one, I worked on a couple of plein air paintings that have been hanging around the studio. The first one was painting in Zion last fall during the plein air festival. I liked the overall scene, but felt that it just didn't have the wow factor to it. I painted some shadow in the foreground which helped to bring out the background light. I also softened the mountains and clouds on the left side to help bring out the bright yellows on the right side. I think the painting is much more successful now.

© 2013 Becky Joy     High Desert Dance     oil   11 inches x 14 inches

Next up was a painting that had just literally five strokes on paint added to it. I painted this a couple of years ago in Escalante, Utah. I was attracted to the afternoon light and all the junk in and around this little shed. The pile of light colored "stuff" on the right is where I added a little more light. I wanted the attention there and it needed to be lighter to bring the viewer there.

© 2013 Becky Joy      Utah Storage    oil     8 inches x 10 inches

Tomorrow I need to get down to some serious painting. I spent too much time working on my facebook page this morning. Unfortunately, I find the computer and photoshop too much fun.

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Talk to you tomorrow,

Becky Joy

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Plein air painting in Utah and New How-to Painting EBook BECKY JOY

© 2013 Becky Joy  Utah impressionist painting    oil on panel   6 inches x 6 inches

Tomorrow morning I will be heading home. It's time, lots of work to do in the studio. I will be continuing my small painting from home. Some may be studio paintings, but I will get creative with color. At 115 + degrees in Arizona it is just tooo HOT to paint on location. I painted a couple more paintings here, but the photos were not good. I may have to wait until I get home to do so and to post them. I will be on the road all day tomorrow, a long day. But I do need to get home for Friday for a demo that I will be giving at the Royal Palms Resort. It will be indoors!

I still have some openings in some of my workshops coming up:

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Hood River, OR  1 day plein air Sept 4
Carmel, Indiana  3 day studio   Sept 27 - 29
Phoenix, AZ  3 day plein air Oct 3 - 5 more workshops

   Since I'm on the road tomorrow, I'm not sure if I will be posting or waiting a day. Talk to you later.
 Becky   Joy

Day 25, Project 125 Baker City Oregon plein air oil landscape painting BECKY JOY

© 2013 Becky Joy     Baker City Oregon Clouds   oil on panel     6 inches x 6 inches

It is been a challenge with the computer the last couple of days. I left my family in Oregon 2 days ago and have been on the road. I stayed the night in Baker City, Oregon which is in Eastern Oregon. The internet access that I had was verrrrry slow, but I did manage to get some work done. And, that was the problem, some but not all the work. I uploaded my new e-book, but was not able to finish the job. So, those that paid were not getting the e-book. Once I got to my friend, Shanna Kunz' house in Utah I finally got a good connection. This morning I was able to finish everything with the e-book and now trying to catch up with the blogging, emails, etc, etc.

Talk to you all tomorrow.

Becky Joy

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