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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“From Blue Sky: Bierstadt, Grays & Torreys” 24”x36”, acrylic on canvas. Finished tonight, this view along the ridge between Mt. Blue Sky and Mt. Bierstadt, 50-ish miles W of Denver, CO. Halfway through, I wasn’t sure but I think I’ve come around. Please let me know what you think. #painting #fineart

Bright summer day at 13,000’/3962 m on the ridge between Mount Bluesky and Mount Bierstad in Colorado; Grays and Torreys Peaks on the far horizon. Snow still occupies a few ravines, but the predominant colors are tan, red, green, and blue.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Well, that took a lot of paint… 1) Tin Roof, Washoe County 20”x24”, acrylic/canvas. 2) Downside of acrylic: it dries fast (good on canvas, but frustrating on the palette). This would be a mess to scrape now so I’ll let it dry for a few days. #artist #painting #landscapeart #westernart #nevada

A mountain ridge with snow-filled ravines form the backdrop for sage and piñon pine-covered hills. Tin roofed buildings—the same blue as the sky—rest in the foreground. On the left, a stand of brilliant yellow aspen glow in autumn splendor.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

For an artist’s account, I don’t post all that much art—figure it’s time to start. Untitled work on the easel, not quite done. 36”x24”, acrylic/canvas. Northern end of Taylor Park, Gunnison County, CO. #painting #fineart #Colorado #landscapepainting #acrylicpainting

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Know how many times over the past 3 yrs I’ve been notified that there’s been a break-in at my bank, Dr’s, or a govt office & someone’s stolen my files? Zero. Number of online data breaches? Today makes thirty. Seriously, fuck your “online convenience”—I’ll fill out your paperwork when I get there.

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a man with a mustache and glasses says seems like an invasion of privacy

ALT: a man with a mustache and glasses says seems like an invasion of privacy

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

High Desert Snowstorm with Joshua Trees, 10“ x 10“, acrylic on canvas. A few details + my limited (for me) palette. Happy w/the the lighter values on the Joshua trees in the background. Sometimes things turn out the way you intend. Based on a circa 2001 photo when I spent a winter working in SoCal.

Painted from a couple of photos taken in the El Paso Mountains, Kern County, CA, sometime Dec-Feb 2001 (date approximate). A Great Depression-era cabin with corrugated tin sides in a snowy landscape with three Joshua trees. Not sure of my photos’ locale—maybe Colorado Canp or Dutch Camp.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Anyoneone else sick of Ai intruding on every single online activity? No, I don’t want Ai to re-write my email—I got it right the first time and anyway, you suck except as a way to assemble raw intelligence that has to be scrubbed for hallucinations and other fuckups.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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 · 17/09/2025

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 · 16/09/2025

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 · 09/08/2025

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 · 06/07/2025

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 · 16/06/2025

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 · 09/06/2025

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 · 27/02/2025

“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 · 20/02/2025

Absolutely LOVE this caricature-series of Hollywood’s Silent Era pioneers by mystersphinx.bsky.social Oh, these faces! Of course the film industry was janky then, too, but these forgotten stars radiate an open earnestness you don’t see much anymore.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“Gardner Lake on the Beartooth Plateau, Park Co., WY,” 10” x 10” acrylic/canvas. Rainy days at high elevation (10,000’ in this case) can make for tough driving/hiking, but they’re often great for painting. #Painting #Art #WesternArt #TraditionalArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Wyoming #Yellowstone

Boulders, brush, and grasses surround Gardner Lake, steel blue beneath rainy autumn skies. Gardner Lake is south of the scenic Beartooth Highway, a seasonal, high-alpine route between Red Lodge and Cooke City, MT, and just northeast of Yellowstone Nat’l Park.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“Rabbitbrush & Emigrant Peak, Park County, MT,” 18” x 24” acrylic on canvas. In MT for my sister’s wedding a couple years ago, her friends took me to a full-on Western movie-set they’d built. This is the view east (+1 of the set). #Painting #Art #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Montana

Rabbitbrush (a type of high-elevation sage native to the western US—known as chamiso in New Mexico) turns brilliant yellow in autumn. A large clump in the foreground contrasts with reddish grasses and the deep blue of 10,926’ Emigrant Peak on the skyline.

Western movie-set near Emigrant, MT, with a steepled-wooden church and other false-fronted buildings at the foot of the Absaroka Range. Although 10,926’ Emigrant Peak dominates the skyline, it was hazy and pale due to forest fires burning in Idaho at that time (September 2022).

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“Sunset on Nameless Peaks, Eastern Nevada,” 10” x 10” acrylic on canvas. Hike up a ridge before sundown; sketch/take photos; retrace steps in the gathering darkness. Rinse, repeat. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Desert #Nevada

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“Upper Forest Canyon from Trail Ridge, RMNP, CO” - 24” x 36” acrylic on canvas. SOLD, Pvt. collection. Commissioned piece; patron wanted a CO mountain vista in a more-realistic style. Photo’s lousy, but the paint is really thick. #Painting #Art #NationalParks #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Colorado

Foreground slope strewn with lichen-covered boulders and small tundra flowers; forested canyon with low-lying clouds in the mid-distance. Snow-dotted peaks along the Continental Divide from a skyline beneath partly cloudy skies.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“Desert Playa & the Eugene Mountains, Humboldt Co., NV” 18” x 20” acrylic on canvas. I have spent more happy hours in the remotest corners of Nevada than just about anywhere else on Earth. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Desert #Nevada

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Not sure why but whenever I’m putting food in his bowl/refilling his water over the sink, my guy feels that’s the best time to slide on through and see what’s doing. Glad I’m tall enough/he’s short enough that there isn’t any significant contact with the uncomfortables… #dog #dogs #dogsofbluesky

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

“Heavy Skies Over the Aspen Range, Southeastern Idaho,” 12” x 20” acrylic/canvas. From a series I painted after a 2020 work-trip took me through WY, ID, & NV the day after a blizzard. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Idaho #awyoming #Nevada #Winter

Snowy mountains (the Aspen Range in southeastern Idaho) lit by sunbeams breaking through heavy cloud cover.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“Early Spring, Rio Grande Gorge above Pilar, NM,” 10” x 10” acrylic on canvas. Painted last year from a sketch I made back when my now-19-y/o was 6. Everywhere you turn, New Mexico is absolutely magical. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #NewMexico

The flat steel blue of Rio Grande River, coursing through its gorge in northern New Mexico. A row of blue mesas recede in the distance.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Four more photos from my drive between Moab, UT, and Denver yesterday… because I took hundreds. Lots of painting in my immediate future. Descriptions are in the ALT texts. #art #painting #acrylicpainting #landscapepainting #westernart #colorado #utah

Red willows along a stream-course in a snowy meadow, surrounded by pine-forested hills.. Powderhorn area between Blue Mesa Reservoir and Lake City, CO.

Eroded volcanic plug projecting above a steep, sage-covered hillside. Curecanti National Recreation Area north of Blue Mesa Reservoir, CO.

One of hundred of volcanic buttes surrounding Blue Mesa Reservoir. Curecanti National Recreation Area, Gunnison County, CO.

Snow-covered fields and peach-colored clouds at a ranch just west of Gunnison, CO.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Beautiful drive for work between Moab, UT, and Denver today, despite rockfall and a blown tire on a narrow mtn hwy between La Sal, UT, and Paradox, CO. Still, I did pull over to photograph & sketch fairly often, so I have lots of painting to do. #art #painting #landscapepainting #colorado #utah

South Mountain (left) & Peale Mountain just north of La Sal, UT.

La Sal Creek just inside the Colorado state line.

Frozen Blue Mesa Reservoir and the West Elk Mountains between Montrose & Gunnison, CO.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Great Basin Mining Camp, Elko Co., NV, 10” x 10” acrylic on canvas. NE Nevada is the quietest place I’ve ever been: no cars, no jets overhead—only the wind in the grass & my own heartbeat. Eerie & lovely all at once. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“Morning Fog, Yellowstone River, Livingston, MT,” 10” x 10” acrylic on canvas. Traveling this week for work so I wanted to use up some paint before it dried out; hence, this quick sketch last night. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Montana

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Self Portrait w/Car, eastern NV, 20” x 20” acrylic on canvas. I don’t often paint plein air & have only one photo of me in action, so… I adapted it and added a car b/c… I can. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Nevada #Winter #snowshoeing

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Headwall Above Angel Lake, Elko Co., NV, 18” x 24” acrylic on canvas. Most folks hear Nevada & think Vegas, maybe Tahoe, maybe Reno, but the mtns are glorious & I say that as a Coloradan. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Nevada #Winter #snowshoeing

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Green Building with Antlers, Northern Gilpin Co., CO - 20” x 20” acrylic on canvas. Also from that March 2022 snowshoe hike, & no, the bldgs clad in rusty, corrugated tin weren’t that red, but they are here. #Painting #Art #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Colorado #Winter

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Break in the Storm, Elko Co., NV, 20” x 20” acrylic on canvas. In 2020, I had a work trip that took me up through western WY, ID, NV right after a blizzard. Slick roads, but glorious. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Colorado #Winter #snowshoeing

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Mine Buildings, Northern Gilpin County, CO - 10” x 10” acrylic on canvas. I painted this one late last year from sketches made during a March 2022 snowshoe hike. #Painting #Art #artist #AcrylicPainting #WesternArt #LandscapePainting #Mountains #Colorado #Winter #snowshoeing

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Small (10” x 10”) acrylic on canvas of a shadowed autumn basin in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Took several passes to get the values right on the talus fields in the mid-distance. Midweek in autumn is the best time up into the high country: consistently good weather, & the traffic drops by 2/3.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Recent painting (10” x 10”, acrylic on canvas) of an aspen grove beside Segment Four of the Colorado Trail (recent painting, but the hike when I sketched & photographed this scene was in 2021). Color’s hard to see but happy I got the blue-gray of the sky right. #art #painting #landscapepainting

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Work in progress/still more to do, but generally happy with how it’s going. No title as yet, but it’s from a sketch I made along a trail in Colorado’s Rampart Range. 18” x 24” acrylic on canvas. #art #artist #paint #painting #landscapepainting #westernart #Colorado #mountains

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Busy at work lately & painting only sporadically, so I’ma repost oldies from the back-catalogue for now. This is of hay-meadows at the foot of Grays Peak in the East Humboldt Range, Nevada. 24” x 36”, acrylic on canvas. Sold/private collection.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

My guy goes outside at intervals and stands 1 foot beyond the dog-door to either A) cool off a little, or B) pick up snow on his paws so he can track it all over the house. Pretty sure it’s B.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I don’t categorically hate anyone, but I definitely have my suspicions about people who rush to the front of a long line of traffic and cut in, plus the monsters who pin photos to the dead-ass wrong location in Google Earth.

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Overhead of my kitchen table. Spent the last evening stretching paintings I’d created on canvas taped flat to a board. Funny how they seem larger as I’m painting, then shrink a little (you lose 1/8” on all sides) when stretched, & then a little more is lost under the rabbet once framed. Shrinkage…

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Kaysercochranfineart.com @kaysercochran.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Yikes, get your act together, America—I just wanted to know what percent of 35418 is 10750 before whatever this is happened (it’s 30.35, BTW).

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