One of Dan Young’s most serious collectors refers to the Colorado artist as his “crack dealer.” For years, every time the Seattle businessman saw a new painting by Young, he’d buy it, admitting he had a huge addiction to the painter’s moody style.

Dan Young (Silt, Colorado)

Signs Of The Season
Oil
10″ By 12″
North of my studio is a mesa that is dotted with small family farms and ranches. It is a maze of roads and fields that makes for an ever-changing wealth of subjects. I’ve spent years driving the roads, searching for inspiration. You would be hard pressed to find one of the roads that I haven’t painted. In this painting, I tried to use the road as a strong directional element to create scale and perspective.

Dan Young (Silt, Colorado)

Shortcut Through The Alley
Oil
18″ By 14″
Whenever Mother Nature gives us a big dump of snow, I’m heading out the door at the first sign of clearing skies. The hunt is on to find streets and alleys that haven’t been plowed yet. I try to find one that has some tracks cutting through the fresh snow. I have been known to make my own tracks, when necessary. Several times I’ve had the frustration of a plow truck coming up the alley when I’m in the middle of painting it. The drivers always look at me with a ‘get-a-real-job’ stare. There’s something about the light and shadow dancing around a snow-filled alley that really excites me.