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Published: 2004-06-07 15:33:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 25031; Favourites: 568; Downloads: 1241
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This is my rendition of the Mt. Sanitas Valley trail in Boulder, CO. I used to live on 4h St. in Boulder and would go hiking on this trail with my dogs every single day. The trail started two blocks from my house and I have been up there in just about every weather condition you can imagine. Through the seasons the views of this part of the mountains changes dramaticaly...they are all beautiful, but I have found Fall to be my favorite. For about two weeks towards the end of October, the trees seem to be on fire with radical hues of yellow and orange.The Front Range is an amazing part of the country where the rolling plains meet the Rocky Mountains. I feel it is important to see where you live from a vantage point. It gives me a sense of scale to visualize just exactly where my daily life takes place. Every time I look at this piece, I am reminded of where I am in the world and of the beauty that lies in my own backyard.
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I really like the graphism, the colors, the psychedelic and yet peaceful atmosphere of the landscape... Some of the patterns are very peacock-like, you must have put a lot of work into this !
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The peaceful landscape. You don't have to understand it.
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this has got to be one of my favorites of yours so far. it reminds me of a modernized starry night to a degree. I love the way you use the different patterns upon patterns. its a bit crazy but very beautiful.
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Amazing work...very happy to discover it. very transporting "caption" too...
THANK YOU
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a friend of mine saw my art and showed me a picture he bought at a festival of trippy salt lake with trees just like the ones in this picture and I am going to have to assume it was also by you. Small world...but props to your style, it blew my friends' minds when they looked at it trippin.
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BAH!! PHIL LEWIS!! I do so love your extravagant, acid trip inducing pieces. I discovered your fabulous coloring book when it arrived at the bookstore that employs myself and I purchased one of your prints at the Creek Festival. Needless to say, I am most impressed with your gorgeous artwork and still recommend your book to artistically inspired big kids ^.~ cheers!!
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Right on. Thanks so much. It's great to hear you are diggin on the coloring book! I'm always stoked to share some of the craziness that goes on in my head... at least, with the coloring aspect of it all!!!
Thanks also for picking up prints, and your comment.
Have a great day!
Peace.
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i know exactly how you feel - i live in colorado too, in the mountains, and there really is nothing like looking at all the trees in fall...or in the rain - this is absolutely extraordinary!
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There is such an amazing amount of detail in your art. It could hang on a wall and one could spend days and days looking at its unique elements. You're very talented.
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i love your work, the colours the flowing contours.truely inspiring
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Toast, and Salad! Your use of the gray scale in this landscape capsizes my hunger and devours my desire to listen to classical techno music!
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sweet love your gallery man. esp this. I was wondering... what size your pieces were usually. they are amazing... and I love you for making them.
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why thank you. i love you too for loving them.
most of my drawings are pretty small... this one is 11x14.
thanks again.
peace.
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Very awesome, it makes me feel like I am on drugs.
I just made it my desktop wallpaper.
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Just amazing, the flowing shapes make it feel like everything is melting... It really sucks you in.
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this is such a superb work! i watched, mesmerized, as the full-view opened s-l-o-w-l-y. (at least, slowly for cable high speed) i find my style is quite similar... i am curious how you gauge what color scheme works best? i am constantly battleing with color... grrr... it often RUINS my works... so any advice from such a guru of color & design would be most appreciated!
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Such joy of colors and feelings and expressions, very enjoyable!
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thanks for the comment. are you still living in boulder? I have some framed pieces up at Foolish Craigs on Pearl St...including this Sanitas piece. If you're ever around, you should check it out...
Thanks again, have a great day.
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Remarkable. I want to go there so badly after seeing this piece. There's so much to take in, it's like vitamins for my brain.
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...sorry...I'm drooling on my key board... gross...
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welll... i live relatively close, but still not very close. Too bad your neck of the woods is OH so much prettier. hrm.
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*sigh*. I grew up in Boulder, maybe five minutes from you on Glenwood drive. My favorite part of that trail is the cliff seat with the short pine tree right above what we used to call the "red trail" (the really steep part with the red earth) that's a wind tunnel so the breeze is always sweeping up even on hot dry Colorado days. Nostalgia...
Anyway I like the swirlyness and the way you make the lines of the landscape go down into the distance so it feels like there is the ridge on one side and Mt. Sanitas on the other. I like the side-view of the flatirons as well. But Sanitas valley isn't really that green - 
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thanks for all your comments. I checked out your work, and I really like your colors and patterns. patterns are the best, somtimes they can get away from you, take on a life of their own...which makes them more then just patterns...art.
I am also intrigued by your stained glass. I have always been interested in glass, but never met anyone who knew how to do it. i guess i could try and find a class somewhere, but i never really liked school, so hopefully someday i can get into it.
thanks again, talk to you later...
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Oh now this is something truly spectacular. Seriously.... I am totally overwhelmed. I would have though this would be too much detail and opposing pattern but it works brilliantly. 
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Hehe, I think if i went hiking through that i'd die of overstimulation! Looks truly awesome! Great piece
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