Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I have done several paintings of High Tea at the historic Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver and I always find interesting viewpoints. I love the antique furniture, glass top tables, cut glass lamps, three tier desert trays, white dishes, and happy customers. I enjoy sitting at one of the tables sipping coconut tea, sampling the deserts, putting down ideas in my sketchbook and as long as I am discreet, I can capture reference photo

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Last Sunday I talked about these ramshackle adobe buildings next to the Saint Francis Church in Taos, New Mexico being one of my favorite subjects and this is a nocturnal that I painted in my studio in Denver. I have always loved the watercolor paintings of Taos artist Tom Noble and his unique style. His color choices are rich and childlike with bright blue trees, pink adobes, lime greens, and different violets. In my mind, he represe

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. The famous art colony of Taos, New Mexico provides so many interesting subjects for painting and this is one of my favorites. Next to the iconic Saint Francis Mission is this abandoned group of ramshackle adobe buildings that I have painted many times. Every year in my May Watercolor Workshop I visit this compound and, every year, it is a little more run down. I have painted it so many times that the workshop attendees have taken to c

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Cityscapes present interesting challenges and, with a complicated subject like this, I work from pencil sketches, color studies and photo's. This is 17th Street in downtown Denver on a Sunday afternoon and it is a mixed media painting with watercolor and pastel. These two mediums work well together because they provide different colors and textures and you can paint over watercolor with pastel. That is exactly what I did with some of