Just announced: Making it Fine Art Workshop Fri - Sun, April 24-26

Fri - Sun, April 24-26, Castle Rock, CO (Denver Metro)

Open to 5 artists   5 spaces available

Information and sign up   Workshop flyer

Ken will discuss strategies for creating better artworks with a variety of common and creative tools. The workshop will focus on concepts for making better starts, compelling artworks, going to new places in your work, and how to make fine art. They will use informative videos and pass on strategies, some not the literature, but handed down from the very best teachers.

 

Together, we will be going deeper into the how-to of making more appealing artworks with a variety of ideas and tools. After the day's sessions, the group is invited to further discussions and dinner. After the Sunday session, Ken will present Photoshop techniques for taking your works to the next level and creating better pathways for finishing your artworks. You will be given a simplified Photoshop guide and have access to a large, digital photo file of over 2000 inspiring artworks.

 

Ken will demonstrate painting using oil and pastels, if requested. In addition to making art works, Ken will talk about business and promotion, necessary tools for success in the marketplace.

There will be serious discussions, laughs, and your questions with more continuing after class hours. We will all come away with new tools to take your art to the next level. Ample time will be given to live problem solving, daily critiques and creative options.

Grateful Notices: Red Movements, oil on canvas, 36 x 60 inches

Red Movements

Oil on canvas, 36 x 60 inches
Exhibited: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Private collection, N.C.

My thanks to the couple that purchased this oil

About this artwork:

This composition has always drawn me in—the feeling of standing in the shaded part of a forest, looking outward toward a place flooded with light. It presents an ideal stage for exploring contrast, depth, and energy.
 
In this work, I began immediately with bold colors and contrasts that set the theme for this oil.The focus here is nature at its most dynamic: a forest alive where shapes, depth and complexity are combined with a large variety of saturated colors, all contributing power to the piece.
 
At one point, the painting became almost unruly, like a three-ring circus of competing forces—all these vivid variables demanding attention. That’s when I listen to the canvas, open to instructions for what is needed next.
 
What followed was more color, intensity and depth, until the moment came to push the yellow trees glowing at the center even more.
 
Then there was a calm, a moment when everything stopped. It felt as though the forest itself held its breath—waiting for some signal that all was in balance. Then every mark, every part combined as one full chord of color and form.
 
The painting was finished.

New Works: Exhibiting in the National Western Stock Show, 2025-26

Here are four of my new oils on canvas that were juried into the National Western Stock Show. I am a part of the Young Guns exhibiting group and you can purchase these works online through the Coors Western Art exhibit site here

These works will be sold only at the listed price. There is no bidding by lottery, silent auction, or otherwise, and there is no presale "Buy it Now" option.

Your purchase supports the National Western Scholarship Trust, helping fund the future of agricultural and rural youth across Colorado and Wyoming.
Thank you!

Ken

New Work: All in the Glow, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

All in the Glow, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

Exhibiting: Saks Galleries, Denver

$9250 framed

To purchase

This oil is a larger, more expansive reimagining of the earlier painting Soft Evening Colors,keeping the same basic composition while shifting the mood and intensity. In this version,the sun drops lower and burns brighter and that small change sends a warm radiance acrossthe entire landscape.

Every area of the surface was reconsidered and strengthened, with more presence, nuance, and more saturated color. The result is a luminous field of light, a glowing object in the room.

Once finished, I was surprised to see this painting take over, outshining some of the other vividworks in the studio. It seemed eager to get out into the world.