E Allen Fine Art

08/04/2026

Just finished this commission — a high desert landscape in gouache, with cholla cactus blooming in the foreground and layers of hills fading into the Jemez mountains.

I love painting commissions like this because it’s a chance to translate someone’s connection to a place onto paper — not just the view, but the feeling of being there.

If you have a landscape you’d love to see painted, I’m currently taking new commissions — send me a message!

07/26/2026

High Desert Series, no. 5 — gouache on paper. This is the morning view right from home, piñon and juniper rolling out toward the Sangre de Cristos, with my neighbor’s place tucked onto the top of the next big hill.

07/16/2026

New in the high desert series — gouache on paper. Painted these canyon walls in every color except the one you’d guess: purples, blues, that mossy green in the shade. New Mexico rock never reads the way you think it will. Grateful I get to keep chasing it.

07/15/2026

I’m making more progress on this one. It still needs some fine tuning…maybe some scaling back, but I’m pleased with it overall. 🎨

07/14/2026

A little work in progress. 😊

I’ve been wanting to explore something different, and lately I’ve been completely captivated by the iron-rich soils and rock formations of New Mexico. That incredible rusty rose color seems to glow from the landscape itself, and I wanted this painting to be an homage to those beautiful red rocks.

What’s funny is that this piece started out as something entirely different. My original plan included smaller mesas and a jackrabbit, but the painting just wasn’t coming together. So this morning I did what every artist eventually has to do—I soaked the paper and painted right over the parts that weren’t working.

Sometimes the painting you intended isn’t nearly as interesting as the one waiting underneath. This is where it has led me so far.

07/09/2026

I’ve accidentally started a new series. I just finished the third in this series this morning. Gouache on paper, all earthy tones — I can’t get enough of these New Mexico landscapes. 🏜️

07/06/2026

My paintings never looked right online — so I asked AI to build me a camera. 🎨

For years my artwork looked flat and washed-out in photos, no matter how many times I reshot it on my phone. RAW didn’t fix it. A tripod didn’t fix it. So I finally tried something different: I asked AI to spec me a proper setup for photographing my work — and it came back with a plan for about half the price of buying new.

A gently-used Nikon D7100, a macro lens, a $10 bubble level, and a little tabletop light tent later… the difference stopped me in my tracks. Same bird, same paint, same me behind the camera — the only thing that changed was the gear, and suddenly the color is true and every brushstroke shows.

Which do you like better — the before or the after?

See the originals, prints, and cards here 👉 https://eallenfineart.com

06/21/2026

A clean space = a clear mind! ✨ I finally got my art studio organized exactly how I need it for maximum creativity. What is one thing you absolutely need in your creative space? 👇

06/18/2026

New on the blog: The Ravens Are Waiting.

There's a raven who lives near our new Santa Fe home. Most mornings I watch him hunt, then carry his meal up to the chimney of our casita and survey everything like a king at his table. He's the reason I finally sat down to write this one.

It's a little dispatch from a new chapter — setting up a studio in a new place, the clear hard-blue skies, the juniper shadows I haven't gotten right yet, and the Say's Phoebe family that's claimed our courtyard. I'll be honest: it's been harder to paint here than I expected. But the ravens are waiting, the junipers are waiting, and I can't wait to see what happens.

Read it here (there's a short clip of that big Santa Fe sky): https://www.eallenfineart.com/eallenfineart-blog/the-ravens-are-waiting

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There's a raven who lives near our new Santa Fe home — most mornings I watch him hunt, then carry his meal up to the chimney of our casita and survey everything like a king at his table. He's the reason I finally sat down to write this one. A little dispatch from a new chapter: a new studio, those