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2025 Fall Color Passages

Contest Album




Read instructions on the Online Contest Prospectus page.

General online contest description: Online Contests

Specific fall contest description: Color Passages Online Contest


All entries must be painted en plein air between September 1 and December 10, 2025.

This is a beautiful time of year to get outside and paint!

The painting period has closed. Now it's time to vote for your favorite!

Upload your best fall color painting in the Fall Color Passages Online Contest to win cash prizes,

extra online exposure in our winner's album, and the admiration of your peers.

Out-of-State Members, this is a great opportunity to showcase your area and participate without having to travel.

When you upload your image, be sure to enter full caption:

1. painting title 2.  height x width 3. medium (oil, watercolor, pastel, mixed, etc). 4. area where painted 5. price or NFS

Do not put your name in the caption. IF PAINTING IS SIGNED - COVER OR BLUR OUT YOUR SIGNATURE.

Only 1 (one) Entry Per Artist. 

Artist names will appear in top right corner AFTER voting has closed.

Click here to go to voting module.


40 photo(s) Updated on: 11 Dec 2025
  • Autumn Walk, oil, 14" x 11", Aspen Trail, Hyde Park, $800.00
  • Twilight's Last Gleaming
  • One More Day of Summer, 18 x 24, Oil, Yampa River Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Plein Air painted over 5 days Sept 20-25, 2025.
  • Final Fall Color, 10x8, oil, arroyo in Santa Fe
  • Fall Colors - 12" x 9"
  • Spanish Peaks from Wahatoya Lake 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" gouache, painted as I sit on the huge boulder NW side of lake,near La Veta, CO. NFS
  • Zen @ Adam Gabriel Armijo Park
  • October Hay Fields, 8 x 10, oil, $450, Hygiene CO
  • "Fall River Cottonwoods", oil, 9x12, Montrose, Colorado, $850
  • “Golden Quiet”, 11”x14”, oil, Santa Fe, NM, NFS
  • Autumn Color in the Sangre de Cristos
  • 'Afternoon Shadows' Pastel 9" x 12"
  • Fall Colors of the Rio San Antonio
  • "Jemez Springs" oil on panel, 9" x 14", Jemez Springs, NFS
  • "Aspen Vista", 16" x 5", Pastel, Aspen Vista, $550.
  • "Upper Ojito Ruins" 9x12" oil Painted on High Road near Chamisal NM $2400 @ Chimayo Trading CO. Ranchos De Taos NM
  • Aspen Inspiration, Santa Fe. 12x9" Oil on board. Santa Fe, Aspen Vista. $400.00
  • October's Welcome, 12x9, oil on panel, Rosario Hill, Santa Fe, $400
  • Morning Light
  • Yellow Flowers, 8x10 oil on mounted linen, Santa Fe, NFS
  • FALL ASPENS, 14"X11", OIL, SANTA FE NATIONAL FOREST
  • Anything But Drab
  • “Autumn in the Swiss Alps”, 7” x 5”, gouache, Ballenberg Open Air Museum near Engelberg, Switzerland, NFS
  • "A Lovely Fall Day, Santa Fe River", 11 x 14, oil on panel
  • Stages of Life, 8x10”, oil on linen panel,
  • Autumn is just starting, 24 x 18, cold wax medium, Salt River near Phoenix. $700
  • Fall in Rio Rico
  • First Snow. 9x12. pastels, winter fields in southern Colorado. NFS
  • The Brightest Day, 12x12, Oil, Alameda River Walk
  • Enchanted River, gouache, 16” x 9”, Santa Fe, $85 (SOLD)
  • "Perins Peak
  • "Lake Fork of the Gunnison", Watercolor, 11x15", Framed $650
  • Tesuque Retreat 22 x 22 Oil on Linen in Tesuque, NM NFS
  • Web
  • At the Crossing
  • November Chamisa, 11 x 14", oil, Santa Fe Canyon Preserve, $750
  • Up The Hill, oil on linen board, 12.5x18.5, SantaFe, $800
  • Fall's Glimmer
  • "Catching the Light", 5x7, oil, $185, (painted in a courtyard in Santa Fe)
  • Big Red Barn


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