Coni Grant
One of our recent award winners, Coni Grant, has been an artist and teacher for twenty-five years. She currently runs her own gallery in Alamosa, Colorado, and belongs to Plein Air Artists of Colorado, Plein Air Painters of New Mexico the international group High Desert Painters. She is known as a colorist, working primarily en plein air but also creating studio work ranging from very large (4'x3') to quite small (6"x4" and even smaller).
Shown above is a 12"x16" plein air painting, Beaver Pond on LaVeta. At left is a 9"x12" painting entitled Chamisa Trail.
In addition to landscapes, she also paints urban scenes, such as the 9"x12" painting below, Autumn Hour.
She offers classes and workshops, and her blog is also very informative, including about fifty "class notes" with subjects such as Abstract, Drawing, Notan, Square Format, Art of the Trade...
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