Painting at Steve's Arizona - Mittry, Cibola and Alamo Lakes

I was happy to paint while Steve was sharing his favorite Arizona fishing holes with my husband. I didn't know if I could paint on a trip designed primarily for fishing. I wasn't sure I wanted to come on this trip at all. But I enjoyed painting where Steve fishes every winter for 25 years. As it turned out camping in the wilds in our Winnebago was excellent inspiration. I can put emotion and life into a painting if I am totally living in the space where I paint. Painting 6 feet from our Winnibago's door

at first camp at Mittry Lake.

In the background is Steve and his pontoon boat.

Camping on BLM lands near Cibola Lake.

At Mittry Lake and Cibola Lake Painting flowed during and after March trip

Painting at Red Cliff State Park before meeting up with Steve and his wife at Mittry Lake the first week of March.

The main purpose of this blog is to show the way my paintings developed in chronalogical order. RVing and painting is working out for me. I also sell. To see prices look at the column on the right and click on "Willing to Sell".

Red Cliff State Park, California

Moleskin pocket book sketch done on location.

"Red Cliffs"

watercolor on 300 Lb. Killamonjaro cotton rag paper, 19" x 14"

Done in camp after sketching on location.

First Stay at Mittry Lake

" Changing Chair at the Put-in for the Pontoon Boat"

Watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 Lb cold press cotton rag paper

13" x 9"

"Facing the Setting Sun at Mittry First Camp"

Watercolor and acrylic on 140 Lb. Kilimanjaro paper

11" x 15"

"Reeds in Front of our Winnebago"

Watercolor and acrylic

on cold press 140 Lb. cotton rag Kilimanjaro paper

11" x 15"

Three Miles dirt from Exit 52, HWY 8 to Tucson

"Saguaro Once Thrived Near exit 52 E"

Watercolor on hot press Arches, 9" x 12"

"Jagged Mountains Comb Cloudy Locks "

Acrylic on museum wrapped canvas, 16" x 20"

Second Stay at Mittry Lake and One Time at Cibola

"Coots on Mittry Lake"

Watercolor on 140 Lb. Killamonjaro cotton rag paper, 14' x 20"

This painting was begun on our first stay and completed on our second stay.

"Sunshine on the Reeds at Mittry Lake"

"Mittry Lake's Sprouting Reeds"

"Calm Before the Storm Mittry Lake"

On the second stay at Mittery Lake I did many paintings of the reeds which were an important step to doing some interpretative works later on at home. The above three are all watercolors on 140 Lb. hot press cotton rag Arches paper 9" x 12".



"Picacho Peak Wilderness"

Painted at Cibola is a memory of our drive from Mittery to Cibola.

Watercolor on Arches, 19" x 14"

"Wild Flowers at Cebolia"Acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

"Moon rise near Cibola"

Watercolor on cold press Arches, 19" x 14"

Paintings Completed at Alamo State Park

"Emerging from Depths of Alamo Lake" is a watercolor on 140 Lb. cotton rag Arches paper, 14" x 21".

"Steve Fishing at Alamo Lake" is watercolor on 140 Lb. arches cotton rag paper, 14" x 20". The reservoir here is only 17% full and the falling water level is making a terraced waterline and revealing previously drowned cotton wood trees.

"Alamo Sunset" is watercolor on two ply cotton rag museum board, 21 x15". The watercolors all soak in like rice paper.