Wilderness Studio 2018: Chaco and Bandelier

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Night Painting!

Friday night is a great night for some night painting!

Van side art show breakfast!

Sunday Morning our camp neighbors, made up of philanthropical groups affiliated with the New Mexico Museum, asked to see what we were working on

Wilderness Studio 2018: Chaco continued: Pueblo Bonito tour, Penasco Blanco, Supernova

The following day we did the Penasco Blanco hike and stopped at petroglyph trail and the Supernova Pictograph

Beau Carey paints along Penasco Blanco trail

Supernova Pictograph

respite from the sun inside Pueblo Bonito

Pot sherds all around

Wilderness Studio 2018: on to Chaco Canyon, day 1

We arrived at Chaco around Noon on the 17th

May 18th we headed up to Alto House and the trail overlooking Pueblo Bonito

Tim Stakes out a good spot to work

Brian Stakes out a good place to work

Ari paints ravens above Pueblo Bonito

Cliff gives us a tour of Bonito

Amazingly old viga's / ceiling work from 1100

Wilderness Studio 2018: getting ready for our adventures

May 14th we got right to work, building our portable field easels

May 15th we took a local "tester" Plein Air adventure to the Rio Grande at the Tingley Beach entrance

Wednesday May 16th we did all of our shopping and staging,

and Thursday May 17th we figured out how to get everyone and all of our things in the van and 3 additional vehicles

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

This is a really late post-wilderness studio contribution.

I enjoyed the process of making quick little plein air paintings during our travels in Chaco and Bandelier enough to continue doing so on my own. Using the materials provided in the course I reconstructed the larger plein air device into a smaller cube to house multiple little completed paintings for drying/transport.

I stuck with a 5x7" painting size in order to more feasibly stow all of my painting stuff on a bike for bike camping adventures. Plus, that was the max size I could tape to the inside of my cigar box pochade.

Last December and January a friend and I rode from Santa Fe, NM to Austin, TX taking mostly dirt roads and jeep trails. We wanted to get off the beaten trail and spend a lot of time in the mountains.

I brought my plein air painting stuff and made loads of paintings along the way with the goal of using them as inspiration in the studio.

A small sample of what I brought home.

Thanks Raychael for the wonderful time in Chaco and Bandelier. My studio practices have grown because of it and I'm grateful to have spent time with all of the awesome people who participated and facilitated the course.

-Calvin