Mixed Media Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a large monotype, 30 x 40 inches, that I actually painted in less than 5 minutes. I was at Hand Graphics Print Shop in Santa Fe with my artist friend Rod Goebel and I had been watching him paint monotypes all morning. That afternoon he told me to paint one but I only had two minutes. The day before we had talked about a process where you clear your mind then paint in a meditative state and that is what I wanted to do. I quick

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. When I was an art student at The Ohio State University, Henry Moore was one of my heroes. I was fascinated with how he created human figures with volume, form, and the total absence of details. I realized that if I reduced things to simple shapes in my paintings I could eliminate unnecessary details. This is something I have continued to work on throughout my painting career. I also discovered that the same art principles worked in wh

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I went up into the mountains to paint with a friend and this is the result. Plein air painting is always an educational experience and one that I enjoy very much. We walked around for a while looking at different settings and then decided to set up in the coldest place we could find. Go figure. Once we started painting I forgot about the cold and concentrated on getting some painting done before my water supply froze. First I painted

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. When you ride a vaporetto, a Venetian public water bus, on the Grand Canal in Venice you pass timeless grand palazzi's and this is one of my favorites. The constant motorized boat traffic on the Grand Canal is damaging to these palazzi's and the Venetian craftsmen are constantly redoing all the buildings, bridges, and walkways. When they finish one it is strikingly handsome and yet still has that old world charm. This one is ready for

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I found a photograph of these fishing shacks along the shore in New England and decided to paint it with a few changes. First I look for what is unnecessary and should be left out. There was a third fishing shack and I liked the composition better with just these two. Photo's show the dark values darker than reality and the area under the shacks and along the shore was to dark. There was a barely visible large rock which I lightened a