by Dawn Chandler | Oct 1, 2014 | aspens, autumn, en plein air, new mexico landscapes, Santa Fe, trees
I can’t resist. I’ve got to be up there among them. To lose myself among the gold coins of leaves — a world’s ransom of gold leaf.My new home in town gives me a fine vantage point from which to observe the mountains and their mood. And so it was one...
by Dawn Chandler | May 1, 2014 | Albuquerque, cottonwoods, en plein air, landscape painting, santa fe ashbaugh park, santa fe new mexico, spring, trees
coming into leaf ~ ashbaugh park, santa fe ~ by dawn chandler ~ oil on panel (en plein air ~ 5″ x 7″ ~ copyright dawn chandler 2014Despite a hard frost last night and the night before, spring has arrived in New Mexico. I know for sure, because I’ve...
by Dawn Chandler | Apr 6, 2014 | en plein air, oil painting, santa fe ashbaugh park, spring, trees
first plein air painting of the year with my totally cool new guerrilla pocket box paint kit. A day of firsts!My first plein air painting of the year AND my first oil painting of the year AND my first use of my sweet, sweet little Geurrilla Painter “Pocket...
by Dawn Chandler | May 22, 2013 | backpacking, new mexico landscapes, oil painting, pathways, Philmont, Pueblano, summer, trees
the trail to pueblano ~ by dawn chandler ~ oil on panel ~ 12″ x 24″ ~ copyright dawn chandler 2013Ohhhh…..Nature’s pathways….How you ease my troubled mind….’funny how even just a picture of a pathway can do that…....
by Dawn Chandler | Feb 21, 2013 | mixed media landscape, mourning, poetry, trees
there in the forest, ii ~ by dawn chandler ~ mixed media on panel~ 8″ x 16″ ~ copyright dawn chandler 2013 The message came over two years ago:As you know my sister died on Friday morning. I feel like I know you through her and her...
by Dawn Chandler | Jan 28, 2013 | mourning, Santa Fe, snow, Stowe, sunset, trees, Vermont, winter
wiinter sunset light across the stowe mountains and treetops ~ by dawn chandler ~ oil on panel ~ 6 x 6 inches ~ copyright 2013 dawn chandlerMemories of lost loved ones seem to resound most strongly at the end of a winter’s day. I don’t know why that is....
