2020 Challenges

The Dragon's Back

"Lone Cone"
8x8 matted and framed to 12x12  SOLD
Prints available $40

                                                                        "The Red Mountains"

                                                                 6x12, matted and framed to 10x16

                                                                                       $145

                                                                   SOLD, prints available $40

                                                                 "Sunset Over The San Juans"
                                                              8x8, matted and framed to 12x12  SOLD

                                                                      Prints available $40

                                                                   "Sneffles Sunset"

                                                    8x8x matter and framed to 12x12  SOLD

                                                                    Prints available $40

                                                                            "Poppies"

                                                        6x12, matted and framed to 10x16  SOLD

                                                                       Prints available $40

                                                                    "Red Mountain 3"

                                                    6x12, matted and framed to 10x16  SOLD

                                                                   Prints available $40

            

                                                      "The Many Peaks of Hayden Mountain"

                                                            6x12, matted and framed to 10x16  SOLD

                                                                            Prints available $40

                                                

                                                                 'The Colors of the Blowout"

                                                             8x8, matted and framed to 12x12

                                                                   SOLD, prints available $40

                                                               "Red Mountain 3 Glows"

                                                            8x8, matted and framed to 12x12

                                                                                      $85

                                                                           Prints available $40

                                                                        "Twin Peaks"

                                                           8x8, matted and framed to 12x12  SOLD

                                          Prints available $40

                                                 "September Snow on Mount Abram"

                                                    8x8, mated and framed to 12x12  SOLD

                                       Prints available $40

                                                    "Canyon De Chelly Cliff Dwellings"

                                                 6x12, matted and framed to 10x16  $145

                                                                    "Autumn Quakies"

                                                           6x12, matted and framed to 10x16  SOLD

                                           Prints not available

Life has been a little crazy this year for all of us.  I love the way so many have found creative ways to make the best of the situation.  My "paint group" who usually meets once a week to paint together and derive inspiration from each other, has had to meet via emails.  Each week a member of the group came up with a challenge for the week; A theme or photos to reference for that week's painting.  Some of the above paintings came from those challenges.  Then a crazy thing started to happen in August, my paintings began selling at

Mountain Fever and Mad Dog Arts in Ouray.  We had an overabundance of tourists in town this summer and that continued through mid October.  So far, 14 of my paintings have sold!!!  How exciting!  Then I had to get busy painting to keep up, so I was not always able to experiment with the weekly challenge, but paint Ouray scenes instead.  I am not complaining.  It has been great and I love painting Ouray scenes.  

Over the past few years, I have painted many small scenes:  6x6, 8x8 and 6x12.  When 

matted and framed, these small watercolor and ink "sketches" of our beautiful area of the world seem to fill a niche in the "Ouray Art Market"  Who knew??  But I have never been able to make cards from these small paintings as they just would not "fit" right on the size card that I was using.  But I finally figured out how to do it, and now I have all of these small paintings available as cards.  They are 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" (thank you note size), and they are available for $3.50 each from me, Mountain Dog Arts, and Mountain Fever.  

There is a "movement" to designate Sunday, November 29th as Artist Sunday to promote the purchase of local art for holiday gifts.  I along with Mountain Dog Arts in Ouray am participating in that promotion.  Special deals will be available.  Contact me at:

bobbiejohnson@mac.com.  for information.  

"Thank you for everything, I have no complaints whatsoever" Lona

A Year's Worth Of Art

Twin Peaks and Sister
6x12, matted and framed to 10x16, $145
Watercolor and Ink

Autumn Quakies
6x12, matted and framed to 10x16  $145
Watercolor and Ink

Chimney Peak in Autumn
8x8, Matted and framed to 12x12  $75
Watercolor and Ink

Flower rag quilt for great niece, Mia
60x60

Delicate Arch landscape quilt
24x26

Mount Abram Autumn
8x8, matted and framed to 12x12, $75
Watercolor and Ink

Gray Copper Gulch
 6x12, matted and framed to 10x16, $145
Watercolor and Ink

Zion's East Temple
Watercolor and Ink
8 1/2 x 11

the Sonoran Desert
8 1/2 x 11
Watercolor and Ink

A quilt for my friend, Pat
50x56

Flower rag quilt for great niece, Emma
60x60



I did not realize how long it had been since I updated my blog.
So included in this post are most of the paintings and quilts that I have done in the past year.  Except for the landscape quilt, all of them have been gifts.  I have sold a few paintings this year as well as many prints and cards.  The Purple Peacock, where I had paintings, closed, but a portion of it was rebooted by our friend, Jen Norvell.  She has been selling cards and prints for me at her studio, Mountain Dog Arts, and she also sells at the Ridgway Farmer's Market every Friday.  She does pottery herself, gives lessons and provides studio time for potters.  The Wildflower, where I have had paintings, prints and cards for many years is closing the end of this year, so my employers and friends, Bruce and Tamara Gulde will be displaying my original art and cards in Mountain Fever. Where one door shuts a new one opens.  I am very grateful to those who have carried my art in the past and those who will be doing so in the future.  
I continue to enjoy the combination of watercolor and ink and also the smaller 8x8 and 6x12 formats.  But I have not figured out how to make cards from these smaller formats.  
I took a couple of pottery lessons from Jen earlier this summer and have been spending some time at the studio trying to perfect my technique.  It is going slowly, but I am seeing a little bit of improvement.  

Watercolor and Ink

High up in the Cimarron
"In the high-up world of the Cimarron
I wander to a place I've known
Sheltered there by giant peaks
I hike the trail along the creek
And do a little day dream chasin'
"Til I finally reach the West Fork Basin
The stream surfaces beneath a boulder,
And no water was ever colder.
Fed by rain and winter snow
It begins right here as a narrow flow.
Low banks grow thick with luscious grass
And wildflowers bloom en masse.
Lying on the grassy bench above the stream
Is like being part of a peaceful dream;
Watching the weasels at their play,
And eagles soaring up and away,
I could remain has the clouds float by
'Til the moon turns green and theses rocks learn to fly"  bj

Chimney Rock
The two paintings above are small sketches in watercolor and ink, each one is 8x8, matted to 12x12

Landscape Quilt
This is  my first attempt at a landscape quilt using my own pattern.  It is quite an involved process of layers, contours and colors.  The small painting at the bottom was my reference.  It is a painting I did many years ago called "Patagonia Grasslands"  and depicts Mount Wrightson in southern AZ from the Patagonia side.  The hanging quilt measures approximately 16x22"

Spring Quakie Study
I entered this small 8x8 painting in the Alpine Artists Holiday Art Show this summer, along with 2 other works.  This one sold!