"CLEAR CREEK," 10132, daily painter original landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Since everyone is complaining about the hot weather, I thought I'd do this little winter scene to cool things down. Clear Creek is an actual river in Colorado that comes roaring down the mountain and runs through Golden, CO, the home of Coors Beer.

This painting is on a 6x6 panel. I used a palette knife to glob on lots of Titanium white for those snow banks. For purchase information, please click here to go to my website.

Start of Spring, 9024, winter landscape

This snowy scene shows the Arkansas River in central Colorado as winter is losing it's frozen grip on the high country. In another month or two, the Arkansas changes to a raging torrent of ice cold water.
This painting is on a 12x12 gallery wrap canvas and framed with a black "canvas floater" type wood frame. For purchase information, please see my website.

South Platte, 08608, river runs through a canyon

Today's painting is of the South Platte River as it runs through Eleven Mile Canyon. This canyon is beautiful any time of year, but especially in the fall. This is a favorite fishing area in central Colorado. It has huge rock formations that are fun to scramble on.

Along the Gunnison II, 05208

This is the view in the other direction (downriver) from where the first painting was done, however, it is in the afternoon. At this point we were anxious to get back in time for cocktail hour...we were really roughing it.
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MORNING ON CLEAR CREEK, 02908, 16x20 oil painting of river in winter

Another painting of Clear Creek as it runs through Golden, CO. In the winter, the scene is one of quiet solitude. In the summer, on the other hand, the river is alive with tubers, kayackers, and folks enjoying the rushing water.

The reference photo I shot for this scene was taken in the afternoon, so I had to "imagine" what the scene would be like at dawn. As you can see, I simplified and rearranged some of the elements in the photo to get a good composition. That is one advantage that artists have over photographers. Artists can IMPROVE on Mother Nature!

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News Release

Carol Nelson Fine Art
carolnelsonfineart@comcast.net

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 9, 2008, Golden, Colorado

The Coors Brewing Company, of Golden, Colorado, has purchased Winter on Clear Creek, oil painting by Carol Nelson. The company has awarded the painting to a company-sponsored group in Washington, D.C., of Hispanic Women in Business. Purchased through Spirits in the Wind Gallery in Golden, the painting is a winter view of pristine Clear Creek as it runs through Golden.

Carol Nelson is a Colorado artist painting landscapes and a variety of other subject matter. For more information on Carol Nelson, see her website at http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/.

Autumn Reflections, oil painting of autumn foliage on a river in Duluth, Minnesota

This painting was done a while ago, and it has become one of my best selling giclee reproductions. It's always a difficult thing to predict which painting will have broad appeal to art collectors. When I do a giclee reproduction run, the set up cost for the first one is quite expensive. I take the original painting to a professional fine art print store where it is digitally photographed, the image is tweaked to exactly match the original, and then printed on canvas. I have had giclee prints made of 9 of my paintings. Some have sold well, some not.
This painting is of the Cloquet River near Duluth, Minnesota. For giclee pricing, please see my website, http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/