Digital Still Life Painting "The Empty Chair" by Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

"The Empty Chair," stylus on tablet, 16x20. During this whole COVID thing, I think a lot about my loved ones who are no longer with me. The line between where I am, dancing my sailor's hornpipe on terra firma, and where they are (god knows) seems a lot more fragile than it did pre-pandemic. What inspired this painting was the feeling that my long-gone loved ones were closer than ever, as if, going about my mundane tasks, I could catch a glimpse of one of them out of the corner of my eye. This painting was created digitally, so prints are available from 8x10 to 32x40.


 20"x16" Digital Art/Available

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Digital Art, Abstract, Red Art “Stirring the Bees” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 36"x24" Digital on Collector's Choice, Paper, Metal or Canvas

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Folklore, Raven Painting, Totem, Contemporary Art “Two Hearts Beating As One" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

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Ravens are a totemic American bird. They figure highly in the folklore of many indigenous people, including the First People of the North American Continent. They're especially important to me. For many years, a pair of ravens have lived on our property. What a privilege it is to watch them go through their annual cycles and observe the differences in their personalities and behaviors as they change with time. I've had many conversations with "my" ravens. Each one of those conversations have been, in my opinion, brilliant. If this painting became yours, I'm sure it would bless you with the love and respect I put into creating it.

30"x24" Acrylic on Canvas Board-Available

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Colorado Landscape Fine Art Painting “Mocking the Garmenture of Kings” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

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 There is nothing more magnificent than a high country, Colorado autumn display.

 The colors take my breath away!!

 36"x24" x3/4" Acrylic on Ampersand Cradleboard-Available

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Folklore, Bear Painting, “How Butterflies Came to Be” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

This painting is the seventh piece in my Native American Myth series.

36"x24" Acrylic on Yupo Mounted to Canvas Board /Available

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Folklore Art,Colorful Contemporary Wildlife Art Painting, “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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Folklore 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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Folklore, Bison Art Painting "How The Bison Got His Hump" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

Western Wildlife,Contemporary Bison painting

I’m currently completing a series of 6 paintings based on Native American legends. 

 This painting is based on the legend: How the Bison Got His Hump. Here’s my retelling:

 In the beginning days, the bison didn’t have a hump. He was fast and sleek and ran across the prairie having so much fun that he cared for nothing else. He didn’t notice (or didn’t care about) any small creature that got in his way. He trampled the birds and their fragile nests, he trampled the field mice, and the squirrels, and the foxes, and the rabbits. He crushed the flowers and the tender leaves that fed the prairie creatures. All of the creatures begged him to stay away, but Bison didn’t listen to them. He was having too much fun!

The birds and other small animals cried so loud that Great Mother heard them. She ran ahead of Bison and said, “You should be ashamed of yourself!” She hit him on the back with a stick, and Bison hunched up his shoulders and lowered his big head, to ward off another blow. But Great Mother didn’t hit him again. She said, “From now on you will always have a hump on your back and you will always carry your head low because of your shame.”

So this is why Bison has a hump, and why sometimes you see a happy bird or two on the back of a bison. 

 36"x24" Acrylic on Yupo//Available

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Folklore, Raven 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.


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 36"x24"Acrylic on Yupo

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Original Wildlife Painting "Winter Bear" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

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When winter is approaching I typically feel the need to immerse myself into a piece that fits the season. I also wanted to try my hand at painting a facsimile of the aurora borealis. The aurora has riveted me with fascination since childhood. It fills me with a sense that the world is full of spectacularly fabulously magical wonder. Because it is!!

12"x12" Acrylic on Canvas Board- Available

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Grand Junction Fairgrounds, "County Fair- The Second" by Nancee Jean Busse

                       

45"x30" Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, mounted to Gatorboard/ Available

$1200

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Equine, Western Landscape Painting ”SUNRISE ROUNDUP" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

This sunrise roundup occurred in McElmo Canyon near Delores, Colorado.

 12"x28" Acrylic on Board

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Wildlife, Bighorn, Western Landscape Painting “Sure Footed” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

I live on the high desert floor at the foot of the Colorado National Monument. The Monument is 20,500 acres of towering monoliths within a vast plateau with 6 distinctive canyons. It is host to a lot of wildlife including a growing herd of desert bighorns. While exploring the Monument a few years ago, this beauty gracefully climbed to the top of a rocky overlook and gazed down on us as if he knew he was a thing of power, grace and beauty. Such a lovely and unforgettable scene!

  16"x20" Acrylic on Aluminum Panel/Available

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Colorado Landscape Painting, Western Landscape "Valkyrie" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

My husband and I cross from Grand Junction, Colorado to Prescott, Arizona several times a year. It's so beautiful and wide open in the desert! We watched this amazing storm cell march across the wide desert with open mouths. It was full of dark and light clouds, rain, rainbows, whirlwinds, and lightening! What a storm cell bonanza! I've wanted to paint it for a few years, but doubted that I'd be able to do it with acrylic paint. I could glaze and scumble to my heart's content and still not say what I wanted to say. So I resurrected my oils and had at it. The wild and singular force of this beautiful cell reminded me of a Valkyrie; beautiful, powerful, and merciless.

   
  16"x20" Oil on Canvas Board/Available

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Original Equine Painting "If Wishes Were Horses" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

I love painting horses, and wanted to work on a painting with a cheerful palette and disposition. These two lovely horses were sunning themselves in the long afternoon light of Red Canyon Ranch by Moab. It made me so happy to look at them!

This painting is available to purchase at Hold Your Horses! Annual Show and Sale at the Phippen Western Art Museum in Prescott, AZ. 

18"x24"x1/8 Acrylic on Canvas Board

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Original Western Landscape Painting, Wildlife Art, "Narcissus at the Stock Tank" by Artist Nancee Jean, Painter of the American West

 

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There's a stock tank and windmill on our little western Colorado ranchero. I've seen some pretty amazing things happen at the stock tank. This hawk spent quite a bit of time around the tank on an early fall day last year. She was up on the windmill, walking the rim of the tank, and then catching a glimpse of her reflection and freaking out. It reminded me of the Greek myth about Narcissus, who gazed at his reflection in a pond with such ardor that the gods turned him into a flower, a narcissus, so he could live at the water's edge forever.

 16"x20" Acrylic on Canvas/Available

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Contemporary Western Landscape “The 3 Sisters in the Devil's Garden” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

12"x12" Oil on Panel

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Landscape Painting, American Southwest, "Above it All" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

The American Southwest has a variety of ecosystems. One of the most appealing to me is the pinyon/juniper forest ecosystem of the high desert. Camping above Monticello, Utah, we stood on a high ridge and watched the clouds play and dance in the wind above us. It was a sight and feeling I'd like to hold onto forever. That's part of the "why I paint the West" rationale. There are landscapes and plays-of-light I have seen on my travels that are tattooed on my soul. Painting them as I remember is an act of gratitude.

 14"x11 "Oil on Canvas Panel/Available

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Landscape Painting "Mount Garfield Flies Her Flag" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

40"x40"x.3" Oil on Canvas/Available

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Western Landscape Fine Art Painting,“ODD LIGHT“ by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

Western landscapes are suffused with light; light from different angles, light filtered by particulates, light obscured by quickly moving clouds. When I looked at this landscape I was enamored by the juxtaposition of greenish sky and red rock and soil. Every color seemed to be bouncing off of something else. Oh joy!

12"x9"Acrylic on Canvas

$200

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