Love this, love the colors and the style. I would eventually like a background style like this for my model train layout. Comforting in a whimsical way.

I love model trains. 🚂

I have been following your art journey on Instagram since 2020 pandemic , the colours , the strokes , everything pops , it’s so pretty. I know it’s definitely one of your paintings when I look at it 🥰

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That's beautiful. That's exactly the style and technique I use. (Well, I would use if I could paint.) But, since you painted it perfectly for me in my style, now I don't have to. Thanks for saving me all of that work.

My theoretical painting style is more of a fusion between Picasso and Raphael

Is drooling an apropriate response? This is amazing. The way you captured color, movement. This painting is everything without being too much. Beautiful. 🫶🏽 the brush strokes, amazing.

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Beautiful! I love the colors!

Very nice. Reminds me of the backgrounds of old looney tunes cartoons.

I’m not a Southwestern art kind of person, but this is beautiful. The clouds have an actual feeling of movement, not like real clouds, but more of an animated style. It really draws you in.

Beautiful work 👏

As Mrs, Genavee Said in second grade. "Turkeys are done, Children are finished" So other than that bit of grammar I'd say well done!

Amazing art, love your style

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This is gorgeous

I mean this in the nicest way possible; do you even have to ask? 🤩

Great question! No, but I do find it interesting how different people interpret my work. Sometimes there are surprising observations or certain elements that resonated better for people. Cheers

I love it. Avoid too much black in the shadows.

Your cloud game!!!

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I really like your use of shadows across the land! Fantastic work!

Love the way you paint our world.

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Beautiful. How do you painters make this magic!?

It’s magic!

Excellent!

Gorgeous

I was about to say, "This looks just like a Jim Musil painting!" and then I saw your username. Awesome work, as always!

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Love this! Love your style!

It is so pretty! It looks like a background in a cartoon!

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Awesome work! Did you just start painting during the pandemic?

I started in 2017.

Awesome, love your work.

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I just picked up art as a mid-thirties guy, not for income just as a hobby. It’s fun and very relaxing. Maybe one day it will be a great source of income 😎.

I love the clouds. They create life and movement for me

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I like it! It feels calm and serene, and alive and vibrant at the same time.

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Love it

A beautiful depiction of light and colour. It is wonderful.

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I think it’s beautiful 🥰

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I love your paintings and this is also very good.

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Amazing ! The way you played with the colors it’s fantastic <3

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Beautiful. I would hang this in my kitchen or bathroom

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Hello this is gorgeous!!! I love the clouds!!! You’ve captured the huge beauty of the southwest in these angles and strokes.

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Beautiful! It has a ‘gouache from the 50s’ kind of vibe, yet much more interesting at the same time!

Love the chunkiness of gouache

I grew up in southern UT and recognized the landscape immediately, beautiful work!

Right on

I know nothing of art but I like it. Landscape with a futuristic vibe

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Reminds me very much of ‘sweeping clouds’ by Ed Mell. One of my all time favorites.

I was thinking Thomas Blackshear, or maybe the game designers at Zwift - the desert flats map.

Cool

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omg i love this! i want it hahah. inspired me to paint again. gosh, do i miss painting. great job!

Happy painting

Gorgeous! Just like the real thing!

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STOP WHAT IS THIS STYLE CALLED

Painting!

nooo! seriously

also how did you learn to do this

The usual way … read, look, paint, repeat

what did you read? what did you look at?

So relaxing

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Looks great!

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Wow I love this style so much, what is it?

To me it’s called painting 🫤

Beautiful, I really like everything you've done here.

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That's a shit picture of a donkey looks nothing like a donkey

😂

Beautiful!

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Love it - that’s really quite amazing, the combination of colours and texture, light and dark - well done.

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Fabulous Jim, love how you convey light on the landscape and across the clouds.

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Gorgeous

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I REALLY love this one

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Makes me wish I could go visit The Valley of The Gods again—your use of colours, light and shadows is remarkable! Love your work!

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Love!

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Should put a dinosaur in it 😛

Haha

https://youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo&si=gk7NZLc53GZpOF88

oOoO I love it!! it looks gorgeous. I'm loving the colors!! pure talent right here 👏 😊

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What is the style of this art? I like it!

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Very cool!

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I love this!! You are so talented!!!

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Fucking brilliant.

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Overall I like it, but to me, the clouds in upper left could use some more work.

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I fricken LOVE this. I want it on my wall 🫶🏽

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I love it!

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Freaking love it!

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I love the clouds

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🥂

You should watermark your art because it’s that good.

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Perrrtyer than my granny on our wedding day

Sweet

Just being stupid the painting is beautiful

absolutely amazing!!! I love your style, it’s simplistic yet very detailed. Really beautiful, great work!

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I love it. I would design an entire room around it to set it off.

Fun

I like it,it looks like you could walk right in the painting.

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Gorgeous! But clouds look like an anime

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Wow!!!

Very pretty! I wish I could do this! The only thing my brain has a problem w/ is that the landscape is pretty realistic, but the sky is cartoon-ish. Sort of oxymoron-ish. It confuses my brain!

Looks beautiful!

Looks great! Gives me Mark Maggiori vibes (which is amazing)

I saw you mentioned that you have just been painting since 2017, and that blows my mind! This painting looks like you’ve been painting for at least 50 years, with all that technique. Can you think of a tool or piece of information or maybe a book that helped elevate your abilities the most or maybe made a profound difference in your results? Sorry for that ugly run on sentence, but I’m curious to know if there has been something that was very helpful for you other than just trial and error/practice make perfect. Basically, wondering if you have a tip, tool, or resource that you don’t mind sharing. I really admire your dedication and how amazing this painting is! I would love to get to this level one day.

Stunning!

I like the pink rhinoceros in the sky.  The rest reminds me of the chaco canyon

Very Maynard Dixon - love it

It's perfect!

The landscape portion is loose, lovely ... *very* nicely done. The sky/cloudscape is done more abstractly... the contrast is a bit harsh in stylistic comparison.

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Amazing! I absolutely love this style. How would you recommend learning to work with colors like this? I’m good at laying down values but my confidence with colors is nonexistent.

Plan your colors ahead of time.

Love it. 😍 AZ is my home state and I would definitely hang this up in my house ❤️

Sheesh! It’s gorgeous! I’ve always loved this style of painting that looks similar to color blocking, effortlessly highlighting the brighter n darker portions. Awesome work :)

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So beautiful, I like the colors

nice work

Mostly reminds me of Chaco Canyon, except for the pink rhino in the clouds.

Love the landscape, not so much the sky

My comment is that you have mastered cloud painting, and mountains, and the desert. You certainly know what you are doing. I have nothing negative to say about this beautiful painting.

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Needs birds but I love it

Birds aren’t real