Hawaii, Mountain Landscape,Kauai,Waterfall, Digital Art "WAIMEA CANYON " by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

This digital painting required 18,883 strokes and 14 hours. Waimea Canyon is on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The color of the canyon walls reminds me of the canyon colors of western Colorado, which is my home. The contrast is the climate: the lush foliage and humidity on the island of Kauai is lovely! And this viewpoint of Waimea Canyon is an iconic one. 

18"x26" Digital Art on Archival Paper or Canvas

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Abstract Art, Digital Painting, “red, white, and blue” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

This digital painting required 4495 strokes and 17 hours. Recent history and politics knocked a lot of us for a loop. Our usually-neighborly populace ruptured into a quarrelsome mess. When my siblings and I behaved like that as children, my mother would have threatened to "pull the car over and knock our heads together." I can't do that (she never did either), so instead I painted a piece that represents Old Glory, shattered like glass; exploding from the unbearable pressure of hatred and hostility. 

 36"x24" This painting will reproduce beautifully on archival paper, as a canvas wrap, or on metal.

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Still Life Fine Art Painting, Interior View "WILLOW TWIGS AT SUNSET" by Painter of the American West Nancee Jean Busse

 

 24"x36" Acrylic on Board/Available

 $2,000

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Still Life Flower Painting "Glad" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

I belong to a local CSA, an organic cooperative farm in my community. Not only do we receive a share of delicious produce each week, we get flowers, too! These gorgeous, elegant gladiolas graced my home for just under a week. I had to paint them! I painted this still life in warm, summertime sunset colors.

36"x12"x1.5"Acrylic on Canvas

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Illustrative Art, Birds “Odd - Bird- Poster” by Nancee Jean Busse

 

24"x18" Digital on Paper/Available

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Native American Folklore Art,Colorful Contemporary Wildlife Art Painting , Native American Art,“WHEN COYOTE WAS BLUE" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

This is the 6th painting in my Native American Tales series. Each one depicts an animal that plays the starring role in a piece of animal folklore. Some stories resonate with strong visual imagery and those are the ones I want to paint. All I could find of this tale was a couple of sentences and no tribe of origin. But the picture that it created in my head was unforgettable. So I adapted and retold the story below, according to my interpretation. Prints are available. I'm hanging on to the originals for now while I finish out the series.

36"x24"

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Native American Folklore Art,Contemporary Western Art ,Equine Painting "SITTING BULL'S DANCING HORSE" by Colorado Landscape Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

In the 1880s Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. He traveled all over the country and saw many things, but wearied of the white man’s ways. He went back to the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to be with his Hunkpapa people. Before he left the Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill gifted him with his favorite show horse which could do many tricks.

After returning to the Reservation, Sitting Bull became the center of the Ghost Dance movement, which the white men thought was the signal for a great uprising. The Ghost Dance Movement was really a religion of despair. It gave hope to people who had been deprived of their land, their food sources, and their connection to their own ancestry.

 On a winter day in 1890 43 Indian police were sent to arrest Sitting Bull for his involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. When they dragged him out of his teepee a commotion began, and when it was over 15 people lay dead or dying, among them Sitting Bull.

When Sitting Bull’s dancing horse heard the battle, it thought it was back in the circus at the Wild West Show. It began dancing and prancing and raising up on its back legs, bowing and curtsying and doing all of the tricks it had been taught. All who witnessed this thought that the horse was possessed because it danced through a hail of bullets and was never hit. The horse still danced for a while after the massacre ended and until the scene was silent. It had honored its master in the only way it knew.

 Native American Legend,Equine Art Painting,Sitting Bull

 36"x24" Acrylic on Yupo

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Native American Folklore Art Native American Art,Wildlife Bear Painting "THE LEGEND OF AURORA BOREALIS" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

This is part of a series of 6 paintings based on Native American legends.

This painting is based on the legend: How the Aurora Borealis Came to Be.

Here’s my retelling:

 After the great flood, the planet tipped on its axis, plunging the North into long periods of darkness. In the North there lived a group of people who had been spared from the flood. But when they could no longer see the sun or feel its warmth, they became sad and afraid; cold and hungry.

 The Great Mother felt compassion for the People and told them to gather their belongings and walk south, where the sun would shine and provide bounty and warmth. But because there was no light and little food, many of the people perished on the dark, cold journey south.

 In a stroke of genius the Great Mother covered the top of the world with mountains and hills made of ice crystals. The ice crystals captured the sun’s rays and reflected them into the black sky and so illuminated the nomads’ path. They could then journey south under the shifting, humming rainbow of light and became the forerunners of many of the great tribes of North America.

 But the white bear stayed in the Great North. He stayed because he loved the beauty of the inky darkness, the music of whale song and sea birds, and the deep comfort of solitude.

36"x24"Acrylic on Yupo

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Native American Legend Raven Art Painting "Why Raven is Black" by Painter of the American West Nancee Jean Busse

 

 This painting is the 5th painting in a series inspired by Native American legends.
 These works bring me back to my illustration roots. I love painting the visual imagery of a    colorful narrative.

 Native American legends are colorful and full of life and the natural world.
 I paint these uniformly: all are the 36x24 and all are painted on Yupo mounted to gatorboard.  I love indulging my love of detail and "close work.


 The legend that inspired this painting is retold  HERE

 36"x24"Acrylic on Yupo

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Contemporary Bird Fine Art Painting, “RAVEN TOTEM 3, LAPIS LAZULI” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

Ravens hold a special place in my heart. I love to paint them, both realistically and interpretively. This painting is the third in a series of raven "totems:" interpretations of ravens as spirit guides. This one is vibrant and full of joy and mischief. I painted her in rich blues and violets with bright accents.

 56"x24" Acrylic on Canvas/Available

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Still Life Floral Painting, Alstroemeria, Flower Painting, Fine Art “Baby’s Breath” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

I only paint about one still life each year. It's not that I don't like painting them, but it seems that my landscapes flow more easily. When I do paint a still life, I love to choose something wonderfully complex and interesting. I loved painting a vase of white flowers to challenge myself to create subtle masses that made sense to the eye. Alstroemeria and baby's breath loaded into a clear glass vase gave communicated a fresh, sophisticated purity.

 24"x24" Acrylic on Canvas Board/Available

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Landscape Oil Painting, Sunset Art “A New Dawn; A New Day” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

The summer of 2020 was a smoky one. The American West was ablaze for most of the season. We watched the Pine Gulch fire from our home: thick, billowing clouds rising high in the sky, flattening out, and spreading to cover the sky of the Grand Valley. We lived in hot, dry, smelly, and gray world for weeks. When the smoke began to clear the pyrotechnics were limited to spectacular sunsets; explosions of color as the sun set and changed angles behind the clouds. I photographed many spectacular sunsets during the summer of 2020. This one was one of my favorites and begged to be painted.

16"x20"Oil on Canvas Board/Available

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Digital Art, Landscape Painting "Sunset on the Napali Coast" by Nancee Jean Busse

 

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Geese, Winter Landscape Painting "Gliding Home" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

A beautiful winter day, full of soft blue light and powdery snow. The field behind my studio that winter filled with Canada geese each day.

16"x12" Acrylic on Board/Available

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Hawaii, Mountain Landscape,Kauai,Waterfall, Digital Art "WAIMEA CANYON " by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

18"x26" Digital Art on Panel/Available

$350

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Abstract Art, Digital Painting, “red, white, and blue” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

This digital painting required 4495 strokes and 17 hours. Recent history and politics knocked a lot of us for a loop. Our usually-neighborly populace ruptured into a quarrelsome mess. When my siblings and I behaved like that as children, my mother would have threatened to "pull the car over and knock our heads together." I can't do that (she never did either), so instead I painted a piece that represents Old Glory, shattered like glass; exploding from the unbearable pressure of hatred and hostility. 

 36"x24" This painting will reproduce beautifully on archival paper, as a canvas wrap, or on metal.

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Digital Art, Digital Painting, Botanical, "Cactus" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

I saw, and photographed, this amazing, weathered cactus at the Na Aina Kai Botanical Garden on the island of Kauai. When I choose a botanical for a painting, I typically choose something that is compelling because of its complexity, beauty, and/or sexiness. My digital paintings take time and patience, allowing me to abide for a time with each plant I paint. This painting took over 70 hours to complete and over 43,000 strokes.    Because this was painted digitally, it can be reproduced at any proportionate size up to 23.5” x 30”. It will look beautiful printed on paper, canvas, or metal. Contact me and we can discuss which option will work the best for you. 

Digital on Collector's Choice: Paper, Metal, or Canvas 30.5 x 23 x 0

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Digital Art, Digital Painting, Botanical, "Cactus" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

I saw, and photographed, this amazing, weathered cactus at the Na Aina Kai Botanical Garden on the island of Kauai. When I choose a botanical for a painting, I typically choose something that is compelling because of its complexity, beauty, and/or sexiness. My digital paintings take time and patience, allowing me to abide for a time with each plant I paint. This painting took over 70 hours to complete and over 43,000 strokes.    Because this was painted digitally, it can be reproduced at any proportionate size up to 23.5” x 30”. It will look beautiful printed on paper, canvas, or metal. Contact me and we can discuss which option will work the best for you. 

Digital on Collector's Choice: Paper, Metal, or Canvas 30.5 x 23 x 0

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Still Life Fine Art Painting, Interior View "WILLOW TWIGS AT SUNSET" by Painter of the American West Nancee Jean Busse

 

 24"x36" Acrylic on Board/Available

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Still Life Flower Painting "Glad" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

I belong to a local CSA, an organic cooperative farm in my community. Not only do we receive a share of delicious produce each week, we get flowers, too! These gorgeous, elegant gladiolas graced my home for just under a week. I had to paint them! I painted this still life in warm, summertime sunset colors.

36"x12"x1.5"Acrylic on Canvas

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