Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I decided to take Christmas off because I was celebrating with friends so my Sunday email is coming out on Monday. I choose this painting because it represents that feeling of sheer happiness that I feel when I am painting without worrying about the results. I painted it in a class at the Art Students League of Denver and discussed what I was doing and why as the painting developed. Because I was limited in time, simplicity was the ke

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a walking trail where I used to live in Centennial, Colorado and I did this painting in the afternoon when the trail was covered with cast shadows from the surrounding trees. The time of day is important to plein air painters. In the morning and late afternoon, there are long cast shadows and in the middle of the day their are short cast shadows because the sun is directly overhead. Cast shadows provide an opportunity to add m

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I am developing a workshop where we will be painting aspen tress in all four seasons and this is one of the paintings I will be using. The workshop will be available in early 2023. I painted this in my studio in Denver from sketches in my sketchbook, other paintings I have done, photo's and memories of living in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. On the way to the hot springs in Steamboat Springs, you drive on a little dirt road through an

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a painting that I just finished yesterday and it is part of my series inspired by paintings I have done at Denver Botanic Gardens. It is painted on a full sheet, 22 inches by 30 inches, of Hahnemuhle 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper and this is number 5 in the series. I create my own border for these paintings and then make the border part of the painting. Each of these paintings start with one idea and the placement of a s