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Joshua Curry's Art Spot for exploring life in the desert

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

St Thomas 8x10 Oil

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In April of 2000 I took a cruise to the Carribbean. I fell in love with it, and when I began painting wanted to do several paintings from t...

Carribbean Beach 16x20 Oil

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Back to the ones from the early days.....maybe not. My fiance had really liked a previous oval caribbean coast painting I had done for my mo...

Countryside Coastal 10x14 Oil

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Father's Day came around and I didn't want to do a plein air like on Mother's Day. I decided to take a page out of a friend of ...

Saguaro National Park East 24x36 Oil

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I was finally able to get around to doing a decent sized canvas. Wanting my first to explore the area in which we live, the Sonoran Desert. ...

ARC Tropper 8x10 Oil

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Star Wars Characters the saga continues..........wasnt' it just a few months ago it was Lord of the Rings coming out all the time in my ...

Autumn Sonoita 8x10 Oil

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A trip down south back in November we found several shades of yellow, orange, and brown. trying to capture some of that we took loads of ph...

Master Yoda 8x10 Oil

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My father in law really liked the R2-D2 I had done for my fiance and he was a fan of Yoda. So I painted this for him as his father's da...
Friday, June 20, 2008

Desert Wash 9x12 Oil

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Out with the old and in with the new...... ....A painting that I didn't particularly like from years before needed to be painted over. ...

Lone Saguaro 8x10 Oil

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A lonely Saguaro Cactus is partially shaded by a small Palo Verde Tree wrapping around it's base. This is from a trip to the Saguaro Na...

Mt Lemmon Snowy Winter 5x7 Oil

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Living in the desert it gets quite hot, extremely hot. Especially today on the longest day of the year, Summer Solstace! We experience tem...

Fountain Park 5x7 Oil

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A trip from December to Fountain Hills, Arizona. This nice quiet and yet wonderful neck of Arizona. This park holds the worlds largest fou...

Halo 2 Master Chief 9x12 Oil

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A follow up to a painting started almost two years ago. I was going through my drawers of canvas' that I had stretched and found this at...

Rose Garden Bush 5x7

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This small pink rose bush was all alone in the hundreds of rose bushes at Tucson's Reid Park Rose Garden. I took artistic liscence and ...

Sonoran Desert Camper 6x8 Oil

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A camper in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona attempts to start a fire using a rib from a saguaro cactus!
Monday, May 12, 2008

Reid Park Plein Air 8x10 Oil

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After nearly six months of having not been able to make it out to plein air, I finally made it out. Wasn't sure where to go but knew i ...
Friday, May 09, 2008

London Bridge Lake Havasu 6x8 Oil

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London Bridge located at Lake Havasu in Arizona. I've never been here before, only place in AZ haven't been yet. Painted from a re...
Thursday, May 08, 2008

R2-D2 8x8 Oil

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My fiance is a huge R2D2 fan from Star Wars and had been asking for a long time for me to paint R2 for her. Both her and our boys love Star...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Anne Hathaway Portrait 6x8 Oil

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Actress Anne Hathaway from the upcoming "Get Smart" movie best known from Princess Diaries movies. I felt she had a very photogen...

Lonely Saguaro 5x7 Oil

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A lonely Saguaro Cactus sits in the desert missing it's main trunk. from many angles this cactus has enormous character and itches to b...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

2008 Chevrolet Camaro 5x7 Oil

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Camaro featured in Transformers Movie from the 08 Detroit Auto Show. 2008 Camaro Bumblebee! I enjoyed this one.

Helms Deep 9x12 Oil

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Helms Deep from the Two Towers. Based loosly on Alan Lee's concept art for the film.
Friday, April 04, 2008

welcome sign heart shaped rock

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On my fiance's birthday we went hiking up in Mt Lemmon. She found a heart-shaped rock and really wanted something painted on it for sit...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Old Tucson Studios 9x12 Oil

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Old Tucson Studios "high chapparel" film set. This was a warm day and I was actually out here this day to audition for a role. N...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Leaning Sycamore Tree 6x8 Oil

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A 400 year old Sycamore Tree that has hollowed out and is leaning over. I painted it from this angle to where it looks like it has an eye, ...

Pixar Cars Sign 12x16 Oil

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A sign I did for my kids bedroom door. They all like Pixar's Cars so I decided to go with Lightning McQueen and Sally! Some details be...

Courthouse and Jailhouse Rock 5x7 Oil

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Nebraska's Courthouse and Jailhouse Rock located just off of the Oregon Trail which many migrants travelled in the mid 1800's seekin...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Sabino Canyon Saguaro 8x10 Oil

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An interestingly grown Saguaro Cactus at the base of a hillside in Sabino Canyon. Above is a 50 foot cliff face that has spectacular views ...

Shards of Narsil 5x7 Oil

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The Shards of Narsil from the Lord of the Rings. Part of my series of LOTR paintings. More to follow in this series, inlcuding the reborn ...

French Vineyard 5x7 Oil

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A large cottage on a vineyard in france. I much enjoyed this one and plan on doing another vineyard painting from california or southern az...
Friday, February 15, 2008

Rose Painting on Heart Shaped Canvas 11x14 Oil

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My fiance really wanted a rose painted for her for Valentine's Day so I took it one step further and cut out a heart-shaped board and s...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Big Sur 16x20 Oil

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From the california northern coast in the area between Big Sur and Monterey. I enjoyed this one as my second large coastal. The colors wer...
Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Southern California Coast 16x20 Oil

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This painting depicts a pier in a cove. This was done from a reference photo of Dana Point Harbor as it was being developed. The pier is a...

Windy Point Rocks 12x16 Oil

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A rock formation just above Windy Point on the Catalina Highway in Tucson on the way up Mt Lemmon. It was sunny and very tall happy struct...

Cali Lily 3.5x5 Oil

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Another attempt at a very small painting, although back to canvas! I decided that since I had done a lily before I would do a different li...

Cherry Blossoms 2x3 Oil

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Here is my second glass painting. They were both done at 2x3 because I was worried about the glass breaking over time. It was also kind o...

Cherry's 2x3 Oil

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I decided to do something different and try painting on glass instead of canvas. I only did two of these on glass, and while I found it in...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Sonoita Inn 5x7 Oil

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This is a bed and breakfast in southern arizona. it was done during monsoon so it was overcast with no shadows, I took artistic liscense an...

Steelers Logo 6x8 Oil

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The logo for the Pittsburgh Steelers overtop the stripes from the uniforms sleeves. This was painted for my uncle for his birthday. Unfort...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Tree Hand 16x20 Oil stretched

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A tree resembling a hand reaching out of the ground from Patagonia, AZ. It was painted in winter and most winters down there resemble autum...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Lily 9x12 Oil

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A red lilly to go with our bathroom motife! We had an arrangement of fake lilly's in our master bath that was arranged by my mother in ...

Sycamore Leaf 5x7 Oil

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A study of a sycamore leaf!

Marines Logo 6x8 Oil

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I did this painting for my father-in-law who was in the Marines. I hope he enjoys it!
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Twin Trees 6x8 Oil

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These two sycamores from just before autumn were right next to each other and from on angle looked to be so identical. Sure there are diffe...

Superman Highlight 6x8 Oil

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A highlighted saturated painting of Superman from the Superman Returns movie. I had seen a movie poster done like this sometime before the ...

Agua Caliente Park Plein Air 9x12 Oil

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We decided to take a day at the park and watch and feed the ducks. Megan and I picknicked for the afternoon and as the sun was getting read...
Monday, January 07, 2008

Stone Henge 12x24 Oil

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Stone Henge, a place I've had a fascination with all my life. I wanted to present it onto canvas originally to fit into an opening on a...
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Spent my whole life living in the Sonoran Desert. I have three beautiful boys, William, David, and Steven.
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