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105-1.  Watercolor.  Huh?  Where did that snowstorm come from?

1. Watercolor. Still Life Example.

3-1. Watercolor.  A Colorado Mine.

2.  Watercolor.  Arizona desert scene.

5-1-1.  Winter in northern Arizona

7-2.  Watercolor.  One of my favorite scenes in Colorado.

206.  Watercolor.  Not in Arizona. Actually in the community of Amana Colonies, Iowa.  The South Amana pond (45 years ago) provides for picnic-on-a-blanket with great views.

210.  Watercolor.  Relaxing at a lake.

204.  Watercolor.  A slant in nature.

200c.  Watercolor.  Another example that Arizona is not all desert.

219b.  Watercolor.  Driving an Arizona  back-road in late afternoon.

200b.  Watercolor.  North of Phoenix back-road scene.

225-1.  Watercolor.  Holiday time.  Join me for church in Colorado?

225.  Watercolor.  Join me for church in Colorado?

383.  Watercolor.  Natives rounding up sheep in Canyon de Chelly.

445.  Watercolor.  Fall maple leaves.

331.  Watercolor.  Eons ago, a subducting plate of the Pacific Ocean moved east under Arizona.  Over 43 million years ago, small lava intrusions created massive volcanic centers, resulting granite like here at The Boulders south of Phoenix.  Since then the lava mass cracked and eroded due to wind, rain and Winter freezing temps.

332.  Watercolor.  After an eight-mile hike, way down toward the Colorado river, you can see pack horses and mules bringing down supplies to the Havasupai Indian Reservation.  Surrounded entirely by the Grand Canyon National Park, it is considered one of America's most remote Indian reservations.  Havasu (means "bIue-green water") and pai (means "peopIe").  Farther are falls about 100' tall with t

333.  Watercolor.  Sometimes a back-road ends at a fenced field.  Now the sun's going down and we have to turn around and drive all the way back in the dark.

104.   Watercolor.  Is this the Columbia River?  A two-color painting, ultramarine blue and Payne‘ s Grey.  

253.  Watercolor.  Another Colorado campsite scene.  We tried to find mostly new sites over a decade.  One result was to have a CB radio handle, the ubiquitous communication then, in my case Watercolorwilly — "You got the watercolorwilly here."  Check out my hobby website www.watercolorwilly.comthat I created since then.

202.  Watercolor.  Clouds, mountain, pine trees and pond.  This scene had to be painted.

191b.  Watercolor.  Camping provides for a lot of scenes.  There‘ s always another slant out there.

122.  Pastel.  I think this was a view along our honeymoon route in Switzerland.

446.  Pastel.  After capturing a desert sunset, then turning around to capture the rising moon.

444-1.  Pastel.  Path near a creek.

443.  Pastel & gouache.  AZ high country wildfire.

407.  Pastel.  The Flagstaff San Francisco Peaks seen from the west.

257.  Pastel on blue paper.  Isn't it fall somewhere in the world today?

386-1.  Gouache.  Havasu Falls.  How tall?  Notice the man in the red shirt. About 100‘ tall, located 1-1/2 miles from Supai village.  It is the more famous of the various falls along Havasu Creek.  It‘s a vertical cliff into a series of plunge pools. High calcium carbonate concentration in the water creates the vivid blue-green color and forms the natural travertine walls that occur in various pl

[ . . . Continued]  386-1.  Gouache.  You‘ll notice the travertine walls with sheets of mineral deposited and dark holes behind them as the falls move from left and right over a long time.  Ten miles of hiking from the start of the trail to the campground, a drop of 2400 feet.  The hike can take between 4 and 10 hours, depending on the pace, trail surface, and pack weight.  The return hike is alwa

220a.  Gouache.  End of its life.

Gouache.  Was I smoking something while painting this?  See the clouds?

303.  Gouache.  If I had a hammer.

413.  Gouache.  Collared lizard meets desert tortoise.