In January 2024, Boulder had a run of shockingly warm days near the end of the month. I realized it was so nice out that it would be silly to stay indoors, so I got out for a bit and did plein air on the Mt. Sanitas trail.

I think for many, Mt. Sanitas is an exciting and beneficial climb, for my purposes it’s certainly fun, and I go incredibly slow and only maybe 1/4th of the way up. There are many colors to see in the rocks on the trail, because the rocks are red and gray, and often covered with bright yellow-green lichen. There are also deep shadows on the rocks and glaring white mica. I find myself using a complete range of values of paint when I am painting around here.

Aside from landscapes, I worked on portraits a bit too, which I go into in detail more in this blog. I was happy with how these turned out.

I also made several flower and mountain paintings in January.

I made a few other lupine pieces that aren’t shown here, but I think there were about 5 of them total, mostly of small size.

I’ve been able to do some ‘collaborations’ with my 18 month old, it’s been very fun. He scribbles a bit and I make a drawing. It’s fun to do these on canvases from Michaels because they are durable and survive all the spills, footsteps, and other mishaps that paper cannot.

In January I also made some non-collaborations of art of myself and Bebe. We’re right on the line between being able to still call him Bebe, he’s more of a toddler now I suppose.

On the digital art side of things, I finished Glass House Man, a piece I’ve been working on for a while

Anyways, that’s what I got for January!