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Kaysercochranfineart.com
@kaysercochran.bsky.social
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Artist: painting, drawings, upcoming shows, and harmless dad-snark. Refugee from all the other sites—please don’t make me delete this one, too. Generally unlikely to reply to DMs.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 14d
Autumn starting to sneak its way into my paintings. Charles Lake below Fools Peak, Eagle County, CO, 18”x24”, acrylic on canvas. #art #artist #painting #acrylicpainting #colorado #fall #landscape #landscapepainting #westernartist #westernart
Red and yellow grasses and plants in the foreground; the green, timbered lower slopes of Fools Peak reflected in Charles Lake (Holy Cross Wilderness, Eagle County, CO). The mountain’s gray bulk becomes blue & hazy as it rises against a sky dotted with umbral clouds.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 18d
And a rate increase next month. You’re welcome.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 24d
Kinda is, tho? They’re just disguised as politicians, mortgage lenders, and scam artists.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 27d
First pass/rough-in. I usually do a LOT of under-drawing but this time, for whatever reason, I just started painting. Barely underway; much more to do—I think. No real idea where this one’s going at the moment. Kind of liberating, tho. #art #painting #acrylicpainting #landscapepainting #westernart
A partially-completed acrylic painting with rows of back-lit clouds; the lowest 1/3 of the canvas is still blank.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 27d
Can’t think of a better argument for attending college than that lunatic saying we shouldn’t.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 27d
Guess who used up the last legal pad (and I use them up completely, front & back) right before a notary-public renewal training?
A sizable pile of Post-It notes with information pertaining to notary-public training.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 29d
Lawsuits incoming.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Sep 5
All the way to 8:03? Overachiever.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Sep 3
Did he even say thank you for my attention to this matter?
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Aug 29
Please don’t. We are brimful of our own idiots at the moment.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Aug 20
Thank you. It was a cold hike, definitely.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Aug 9
Birds planted sunflowers in our back yard a few years ago. Tallest one among this year’s patch toppled in high winds 2 days ago, so, a free, late-summer bouquet. Thank you, birds long gone, for flowers & the message: go make something beautiful that’ll outlive you. #art #artist #summer #colorado
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Jul 28
I like all your work, Ben, but this one’s exceptional. Very well done.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Jul 6
Two paintings of the high desert in northern Nevada. Beautiful, lonely country with big weather and profound silence—just the wind and trickling water. Titles in the ALT text. #art #painting #acryliconcanvas #landscapepainting #westernart #nevada
“Snow Squall Over Contact, Northern Nevada,” 11”x15”, acrylic on canvas. Contact is a semi-ghost, copper mining town that boomed around WWI but didn’t last long. Snow on the side of a square-top butte above two derelict buildings surrounded by dry winter grass and sage. “China Mountain & Hanks Peak, Northern Nevada,” 10”x10”, acrylic on canvas. Snow-clad mountains above rolling sage-and-grasslands. Turbulent skies above. Sketch/speed-painting this morning—the snow-patches, alone, took longer than the rest of the piece.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Jun 20
Serious question: Sheriffs have to post a bond to cover any accidents or misconduct on their watch—why isn’t this a requirement for ICE? Seems that would dis-incent all but legitimate enforcement duties. Maybe that’s some legislation we need.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Jun 16
Nighttime lighting in my studio/office is really yellow so the colors are washed out in this photo, but I’m happy with how this one turned out: “Exchequer Consolidated Mine, Winter,” 30”x30”, acrylic on canvas.
Looking up a steep slope to three mine buildings—two red, one green—with a snowy foreground and pine-forested ridge behind. Scaffolded stairs attached to a headframe form the left side of the painting. Sky is a brilliant, cloudless Colorado-winter blue.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Jun 9
Haven’t painted much lately (too much going on at work) so this is my first finished piece in months: “Mine Buildings & Frozen Pond, Gilpin County, CO,” 30”x30”, acrylic on canvas. Who knows when this will be up on my website? Enjoy a tiny version here first… #art #painting #landscapepainting
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Mar 28
Yup. Crocodile tears.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Mar 28
Granted, she isn’t the worst senator out there, but she seems to only ever take a stand when the conclusion is foregone. No backbone when it could actually make a difference.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Mar 28
Sen. Susan Collins is said to be “concerned” and will announce her opinion in 2032.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Mar 1
His chin is weaker than this, tho…
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Feb 27
“Autumn Basin, Colorado,” 20” x 20” acrylic/canvas. I love intense shadows that take time for your eyes to organize whatever’s inside them, whatever’s concealed—it’s usually a lot.
#Painting #Art #Acrylic #WesternArt #TraditionalArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Colorado #FourCorners
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Feb 22
That’s how I know to end my days.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Feb 20
Most of Colorado dries out so quickly once the snow melts, I can usually only take moss photos in the early spring. Luckily that coincides with mushroom season.
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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · Feb 20
Lovely work. No offense to your friends, but between them and you, you made better use of your time that weekend.
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