“Spearfish Creek I”

Watercolor on Clayboard

The warm colors of fall and the sparkling highlights of Spearfish Creek, in the Black Hills of South Dakota.  This area is always there, and never ceases to amaze me by it’s beauty.

Painting with watercolor on the clayboard, I am able to layer color in the same manner as applying glazes in an oil painting.  This gives the painting a luminosity that I am increasingly valuing.