Downtown Phoenix Sunset 1

Lots of color, palm trees in silouette, a breeze ruffling their fronds, a westward view of the sunset from my hotel room in downtown Phoenix. Listening to a lecture by Wolf Kahn this morning while painting this, the lecture was called "Six Good Reasons Not to Paint a Landscape." - Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat, and as with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

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Crossing Cave Creek

Tiptoe across the stones to sun washed sandbars. This is the Dragonfly Trail on Cave Creek, Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area in the Desert Foothills Land Trust, Cave Creek Arizona. - Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat, and as with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

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Cave Creek Boulders

In the Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area, Dragonfly Trail wanders along Cave Creek before heading up and away into the desert foothills. "Riparian habitat" - fancy words. No words are needed to understand that this is a sacred place to any thing that needs water to live - especially in the desert. As I record the scene, the creek flows tamely, surrounded by evidence of it's power: rounded, tumbled boulders, sandbars of finely pounded rock, willows lying flat in the creekbed, refusing to be drowned, new growth springing straight upward, vertically, from their horizontal trunks. The cottonwoods are lush green, tangles of tinder-dry flotsam caught in their branches six feet above my head. I can only imagine the roots that anchor these giants against such a flood. - Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat, and as with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Saguaros at Spur Cross

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Their spines backlit by the late afternoon sun, saguaro cactus of Spur Cross Conservation Area stand out against the deeper shadows in the bed of Cave Creek. The profile of Elephant Mountain divides land and sky. - Nancy Boudreau

This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. As with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

Blooming Saguaro

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Back from Arizona with many grand images waiting to be painted. Up in Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area, north of Cave Creek, the saguaros were just beginning to bloom. This prolific individual stands along Spur Cross Trail in a sunny, protective south-facing gully, safe from frost and cold winter winds. - Nancy Boudreau

This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. As with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

Bleeding Hearts

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Dicentra, for Mother's Day. - Nancy Boudreau

This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. As with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

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