Spike Ress

Thank you Amy.

"Desert Storm" 9x9'' sketchbook gouache
I love the desert in and around the border between Utah & Arizona especially when the sky is showing off.
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"Storms Embrace" 9x9 sketchbook gouache
A quick sketchbook study from my last trip to Toas, New Mexico.
#spikeress #southernutah #parowan #studio #oilpainting #pleinair #southwest #arizona #newmexico #colorado #utah #papnm #paput #gouachepainting #watercolor #taos

Thank you.

''Autumn Church Taos'' 12x16'' oil
Painted on location in Taos, New Mexico.
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"Ancient Echoes" 20x38'' oil
Oil painting of Long House ruin in Mesa Verde National Park from a recent painting trip.
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"Prairie Showers" 30x30'' oil
When I was young the American west was spotted with the iconic windmills pumping water for livestock. Today very view of them still exist, they've been replaced with solar panels and electric motors.
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#spikeress #southernutah #oilpainting #southwest #newmexico

Thank you.

"Navajo Desert" 13x19'' oil
An area in Monument Valley on the border of Utah and Arizona.
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#spikeress #southernutah #parowan #studio #oilpainting #pleinair #southwest #arizona #newmexico #colorado #utah #papnm #paput #gouachepainting #navajo #monumentvalley

Thank you @paint-1t

"Autumn Embracing El Salto" 12x16'' oil
Painted on location near Arroyo Seco, New Mexico.
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"Prairie Sowers" 30x30'' oil
I came to the realization recently that the southwestern ranching windmills of the American west are disappearing and being replace by solar panels to provide energy to pump water.
#southernutah #studio #oilpainting #southwest #arizona #newmexico #colorado #utah #papnm

Hey thanks Dennis, I appreciate it.

A small on the spotter painted near Mount Carmel, Utah.
"Morning light Above Mount Carmel" 9x12'' oil
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"Winter Canyon" 18x14'' watercolor has been awarded the Watermedia Award of Excellence in the American Impressionist Society's 26th Annual National Exhibition. Thank you AIS & the judge Ned Mueller.
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"Remnants of Winter on Top" 11x14'' oil
Painted on location in Toas, New Mexico during a Spring visit.
Available - Parsons Gallery of the West. 800-613-5091
www.parsonsart.com/parsonswest/...
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#spikeress #parowan #studio #oilpainting #pleinair #southwest #newmexico #colorado #utah #papnm #paput

"Summer Sky over Las Golondrinas" 12x12'' oil
Painted on location. If you have ever visited this place on the south end of Santa Fe, New Mexico you know the amount of eye candy it has.
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#spikeress #studio #oilpainting #pleinair #southwest #newmexico #papnm #paput #santafe #Lasgolondrinas

"Autumn on the Snake River" 9x9'' gouache
Painted on the spot in Idaho.
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I don't know about ongoing but yes occasionally.

Yes done.

Very nice of you to say, thank you.

''Sun Set Moon Rise 16x16'' oil
From an area in northern Arizona near Lee's Ferry on the Colorado River.
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Thanks, I appreciate that.

"LaRae King's Neighborhood"
Sketchbook acrylic painting, private collection.

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They are my own works but I'm not interested in dealing with nfts.

Painting somewhere along the Bitterroot River in Montana.
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"Fire in the Sky" 9x9'' gouache
A sketchbook gouache study painted in preparation for something larger.
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I am delighted to learn "Canyon Winter" 18x14'' watercolor has been juried into the American Impressionist Society's 26th Annual National Exhibition! The show will be exhibited at Cassens Fine Art in Hamilton Montana and opens Aug. 1, thru Sept. 2.
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#spikeress #ais #americanimpressionism

Paintng the De Valk Windmill in Leiden.

Starting block-in.

Finished sketchbook painting of De Valk Windmill in Leiden, Netherlands.

Quick little sketchbook painting in Leiden, Netherlands. The block in & the finished sketch.
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Painting in Zundert, Netherlands the birthplace of Vincent Van Gogh. #vangogh #zundert #netherlands #spikeress #pleinair #acrylic #amsterdam #thehague #vincentvangogh