I love painting snow scenes, probably because I lived in Steamboat Springs for ten years before moving to Denver. Also, snow simplifies...

“City Rhythm” Watercolor, 22×30″, Private Collection Occasionally I like to work from memories and my imagination and that is how I...

Visiting Paul Cezanne’s Studio in Provence is something I have wanted to do since art school at The Ohio State University. We were there...

This is a painting I did at the workshop I teach in Taos New Mexico. After I set up and started painting it got really windy so the...

Ledoux Street in Taos New Mexico is a tiny one way street with lots of examples of the old traditional adobe architecture. The sunlight...

Denver is famous for its city parks and they are wonderful places for artists to sketch. This is a painting I did for a class in...

I taught a ten day watercolor workshop in Tuscany and this is one of the bedrooms at our charming lodging. I was intrigued by the light...

My annual Watercolor Workshop in Taos New Mexico in May is full of beautiful days of painting on location and this is a demonstration...

Montmartre in Paris is one of the liveliest places I have ever been. It used to be a bohemian area outside of Paris when Toulouse...

This is a traditional old adobe home right in the middle of Taos New Mexico and a favorite subject for plein air painters. The lady who...

When I was in Tuscany teaching a watercolor workshop there were lemon trees every where and I painted this in a private garden in the...

This building in Venice is typical of the architecture on the grand canal in that beautiful city. The byzantine influence is obvious in...

There was a Henry Moore sculpture show at Botanic Gardens in Denver and it was an exciting time for painting on location and I did this...

This is the first day of my blog “Watercolor paintings and sketches by Dennis Pendleton” so welcome. I will post to this blog weekly and...

This is a painting that I did as a demonstration for my weekend workshop at Botanic Gardens in Denver. It took a little over an hour and...

Hello, my name is Dennis Pendleton, and this is the first day of my blog “watercolor sketching and painting” so I thought I would start...