
Work in Progress revisited



I usually stay on a subject for a series of takes and sketches. I’ve reached the finish line on this one.

Latest works. Colors are just starting to change.


Because I constructed this large painting straight from the imagination, you can count me out as a realist. From the imagination counts as romanticism, and if it’s considered not ugly, it then falls within Romantic Positivism.
It’s a work in progress, as I see a few things, a few values worth fixing. Maybe some telephone poles. This painting is rather big at 4 feet by 5 feet and, I am getting very comfortable with the larger paintings. Stay tuned!

The early morning bus ride is often in the magical time of day for most kids who live out in the country.

I kind of like how this little series is developing. Time to try it on a larger scale. Be back soon!

This is a larger version of my last painting. It was an hour later, so the pedestrians have changed!

I consider 10th and Locust, in downtown Des Moines, my neighborhood as it is three blocks from my studio. There is a rather decent Italian restaurant in the building you are looking at, along with the Temple Theater venue for live events. Across the street to the west is a Starbucks, also very convenient for coffee and meetings.

The latest in the Iowa Sheep series which has found a home in a private collection.
The rural Iowa land scape continues to inspire this painter to reap the beautiful and true from the simplicity of eternal forms that surround us.