Plein air painting remains one of my favorite things to do and this painting was done as a demonstration at one of my plein air workshops....

The Taos Watercolor workshop for 2019 is over and I am back in Denver. Thank you to the artists who took the workshop and made it such a...

I am at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House for the first night of my Taos Watercolor Workshop. Tomorrow we begin five days of plein air...

Next weekend I leave for Taos New Mexico where I will be teaching my annual watercolor workshop. This is a painting of the entrance to...

Today was the third and final day of my May Botanic Gardens Workshop. I will have another workshop each month this summer and you can...

As I looked through an opening in the foliage at Denver Botanic Gardens I was struck with this composition. The blossoming tree with the...

I just had my Denver Botanic Gardens Watercolor Workshop on Friday, Saturday Sunday, May 3-5, 2019, and it was a beautiful weekend,...

Did you know that the word iris means rainbow? What a perfect analogy. The iris displays in Denver Botanic gardens are spectacular in...

Painting on location in Botanic Gardens is a time to have fun, loosen up, and compose with rich and dramatic colors. This is a painting...

I am in Phoenix attending a business workshop and seeing this painting has me wishing I was painting in Denver Botanic Gardens where the...

I am in Steamboat Springs Colorado teaching a watercolor workshop on painting flowers. I used to live in Steamboat and it has been like...

This is a painting I did as a demonstration in my workshop at Botanic Gardens last summer. It is always fun and challenging to organize...

Because of the holiday I decided to talk about painting the color green. If you enjoy painting landscapes, understanding as much as you...

Winter in Denver has me dreaming of a painting trip to Venice. This watercolor painting depicts one of the small canals where laundry...

This painting of the mission with the aspens trees is in a quaint little town just outside of Taos. This site is one of our favorite...

Years ago in the early days of the Art Students League of Denver, the director and some of the instructors traveled to Southern France...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS COLORADO WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP August 15, 16, & 17, 2019 Join me for my Steamboat Watercolor Workshop in August 2019! ...

Winter is perfect for setting up something special in my studio like these white orchids. My plan was to offset the orchids with a dark...

When my studio was on South Pearl Street in Denver, I did a small watercolor painting of this scene then recently I did this larger...

I talk to people all the time who struggle with their paintings and often it is because they don't understand the proper use of color...

I am completing a book of Drawings and Paintings of Denver and this is one of the pages. The book will be full of images and history of...

To paint loose expressive watercolors, confident strokes are needed and who better to study than John Singer Sargent. The man was a...

This is a painting of the Couse House from my Taos workshop in May. By the way, there are still two spaces available for this years Taos...

​ ​Dennis Pendleton will teach both the beginner and seasoned artist how to convey movement in their work at this year's 5-day watercolor...