Buffalo Kaplinski is one of the Pikes Peak Water Societies own!
For more than 40 years Buffalo has been a fine artist establishing himself in the western U.S. Born in Chicago he studied at the American Academy of Art and the Chicago Art Institute. After working as a commercial artist in Chicago, the lure of the American Southwest took him to Taos, NM where his career as a fine artist began in 1967. He quickly became known as one of the finest contemporary landscape artists working in watercolor and acrylic and gained national recognition through his many one-man shows.
Buffalo likes to use Windsor Newton (WN) #7 or #8 pointed long handle red sale brushes. However, WN has now come up with a synthetic red sable brush that Buffalo says is excellent! He also likes the Princeton rigger brush #7, the Neptune rigger or script brush #4 or 5, and the Black Velvet rigger. He also uses 1″ and 2″ flat brushes.
There were a couple of breaks while areas of his painting dried and this allowed members to ask him many questions!
Buffalo has worked as a plein air painter all over the world, and in about 25 different countries. Closer to home he likes to the Southwest; the canyons of Utah, high country of Colorado, moving water, fallen snow, ice, aspen groves, rock formations, sunsets, and glaciers. These are subjects get Buffalo splashing away in watercolor and acrylic. One of his favorite colors to depict shadows on snow is Daniel Smith’s Iridescent Electric Blue and English Red Ochre for rocks.
Unfortunately, Buffalo did not have time to complete his painting before the end of the meeting, but did post the final piece on our Member’s Only Facebook Page!
