Watercolor Artist Blog

Denver Watercolor Class Teacher Dennis Pendleton

Nov 1, 2020

The Artist Is The Director

Flower Gardens are an exciting subject and this painting was done in a friend's garden in Taos, New Mexico. I wandered around the garden...

Oct 25, 2020

History on Broadway

One night when I was teaching at the Art Students League Of Denver it started snowing so, after class, I ran over to the Mayan Theater on...

Oct 18, 2020

Fond Memories

On a painting trip to Europe I visited the historic town of Honfleur with its picturesque harbor. The port is so enchanting that people...

Oct 11, 2020

Summer's End

I included myself in this picture so that you could get a since of the size of the painting which is 40 x 60 inches. Every year I do a...

Oct 4, 2020

Gold Fever

I am working on a series of aspen paintings from my recent trip to Steamboat Springs and this is one of the first. This series will...

Sep 27, 2020

Aspen Gold

I spent the last five days in Steamboat Springs, Colorado painting the fall colors and gathering material for future paintings. My...

Sep 20, 2020

Flight of the Seagulls

In preparation for a painting trip to New England, I studied the watercolor paintings of Philip Jamison. He lives in West Chester,...

Sep 13, 2020

Paint The Music

I traveled on a painting trip through Mexico with my mentor, Lowell Ellsworth Smith, and this musician was preforming in a restaurant in...

Sep 6, 2020

Get Lost In Nature

This is a scene in Washington Park, Denver that I have painted before which begs the question "with all the subject matter available, why...

Aug 30, 2020

Wild Enchantment

I recently came into possession of some pictures of paintings that I did several years ago and this is one of them. It is the front yard...

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