Earth and Sky | Susan Steinberg

• Canyon of El Rito de los Frijoles

  Watercolor, Paper, 21 x 14. I have walked the trails through the canyon of El Rito de los Frijoles, in Bandelier National Monument, many times. The ancestral Puebloans built dwellings along the creek and carved rooms in…

• Aspen Fire In The Jemez

  Watercolor, Paper, 23 x 21.5. Early October in the Jemez Mountains. Cold nights have cause the aspens to turn, scattering golds, yellows and burnt orange through the pines with every bend in the road.

• Cerrito Blanco

  Watercolor, Paper, 21 x 29. During my artist residency at Ghost Ranch, NM, I explored the surrounding landscape and discovered Cerrito Blanco rising above the Chama River. Cloud formations and native vegetation were ref…

• Jordan Pond

  Watercolor, Paper, 19 x 14

• Valley Trail

  Watercolor, Paper, 30 x 22. I took a mother-daughter trip to Yosemite National Park one November. We shared the hush of a forest trail, gold and amber leaves drifting down, the granite walls rising up from the Valley Tr…

• Bayo Canyon

  Watercolor, Paper, 21 x 14. While hiking through Bayo Canyon near Los Alamos New Mexico I was captivated by the fissures in the towering, rock faces dominating the vertical wall and the trees that dared to grow on the l…

• Casa del Sol

  Watercolor, Paper, 20 x 16. During my artist residency at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico I visited Casa del Sol one afternoon. I could not resist painting the view of the Chama River Valley and Cerro Pedernal from an archway i…

• Choya Cactus Garden

  Watercolor, Paper, 13 x 19. I found great beauty in the harshness of the desert at the Choya Cactus garden at Joshua tree National Park. The scene was a 'forest' of teddybear Choya against the backdrop of the Hexie moun…

• Joshua's Desert Garden

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 22. Joshua’s Desert Garden is my response to the striking uniqueness of Joshua Tree National Park. What captivated me were the giant granite boulders, the tumble of rocks, the spiked silhouettes…

• Valles Caldera

  Watercolor, Paper, 17.5 x 28. I was inspired by the dramatic sky above the sweeping grandeur of the Valles Caldera, a vast volcanic basin in Northern New Mexico. Gray clouds drift angrily across a pale cerulean, blue sk…

• Storm over Sandia

  Watercolor, Paper, 16 x 28. Looking south from a high point near Santa Fe, NM was a sliver of terracotta desert with gold Chamisa (rabbit brush), turquoise and silvery purple sage, and a scrubby line of piñon and junipe…

• Kona Sunset

  Watercolor, Paper, 13.5 x 19.5

• Oh our Mother the Earth

  Watercolor, Paper, 21 x 28.5. The name of the painting is from the opening verse of the "Song of the Sky Loom" from the Pueblo tradition just north of Sante Fe, NM. It captures the deeply reverent connection with the sp…

• River Road

  Watercolor, Paper, 13 x 21.5. Anyone who has driven the scenic El Camino del Rio (FM 170, Texas) from Lajitas to Presidio will recognize this view of the Rio Grande. I used color to emphasize and give emotion to the alr…

• Aspen Grove in the Caldera

  Watercolor, Paper, 13 x 20. Juried into the 56th Annual Members Exhibit, Watercolor Art Society-Houston, Oct 1-30, 2025

• Aspen Grove

  Watercolor, Paper, 21 x 24. Framed: 34" X 31"

• Road to Rio Chama

  Watercolor, Paper, 13 x 20. Framed: 26 X 20 The painting captures the stark beauty of the multicolored sandstone canyon and pinon/juniper woodland in the Chama River Canyon-New Mexico. Honorable Mention. Watercolor Art…

• October in the Land of the Turquoise Clan

  Watercolor, Paper, 13.5 x 21.5. Framed: 31" X 23"

• Snowy Trail in the Jemez

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 13.5. Juried into the 76th Annual Exhibition of the Texas Watercolor Society June 4-July 31, 2025 Framed Size: 20X20 inches

• Deer Trap Mesa

  Watercolor, Paper, 13.5 x 18. Framed Size: 20X26 inches

• The View from Uncompahgre Riverway Trail

  Watercolor, Paper, 13.5 x 20. I brightened and bolded natural colors to create order out of the chaos of dense vegetation along the river and emphasize key geographic features. Uncompahgre River; Montrose, CO. Framed Si…

• Black Mesa

  Watercolor, Paper, 13.5 x 21. Honorable Mention Galveston Art League Winter Juried Show 2024. If you have ever driven from Santa Fe to Los Alamos, NM then you have seen the Black Mesa. The picture is currently framed to…

• Bosque in Winter

  Watercolor, Paper, 19 x 13. Framed Size: 25X19 inches

• Maria Island

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 20

• Ojo Caliente

  Watercolor, Paper, 15 x 11. Framed Size: 24X20 inches

• Aspen Grove on the Cumbres

  Watercolor, Paper, 17 x 13

• Taos Pueblo

  Watercolor, Paper, 13 x 19

• Bosque del Apache at Dawn

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 21

• Moon Over Big Bend

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 18