Happy Noo Year

It's not too late for one last hoopee, even though it is in the middle of January already. I've resolved to blog, draw and paint more in the new year. Also I want to show my remaining artwork from last year, including a painting that I used for my holiday card:
Old Town Mazatlan, Catedral Basilica de la Purisima Concepcion, oil 16" x 20"


I showed this picture six months ago, when I began this blog. Even though this is a blog about oil painting, I do make lots more drawings than paintings. My first drawing of the year is from the window of our hotel room in Denver on Jan. 1, after waking from the New Year's party our daughter Chris took us to:
Coors Field, ink and watercolor pencil, 9" x 12"


The party was appropriately wild, with dancers on stilts:
The White Rose Gala, watercolor marker, 9" x 12"


STILL ON THE HIGH ROAD

I love the living drum I got in Santa Fe on our second trip last year, by Elk Good Water, Taos Pueblo. I wish you could hear it:


Having more leisurely time on this trip, I made new sketches along the High Road from Santa Fe to Taos:
Judy on the High Road


The High Road is my favorite sketching route. I've always drawn in my notebooks wherever I've travelled, and this is how I've filled up a notebook a year. I was looking for different views in our old favorite locations:
A scene in Chimayo


Three scenes in Truchas:







And a scene in Las Trampas, the back side of San Jose de Gracia Church:


Even though I'm done showing old pictures from the High Road, in this new year I still have lots of fond images that I'm compelled to turn into more pictures, which I'll continue to post as I make them.