9×12 oil on paper
“Small Town Twilight”
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Category Archives: oil paintings 2015
“Hogback Bridge Study”
9×12 oil on paper
“Forty Four”
One more pass at this needed and coming soon. Stay tuned for final draft.
“On the Park Point bridge”
9×12 oill on panel – private collection
I have been fascinated with the aerial lift bridge since seeing it for the first time over seven years ago. Now that we have been spending our summers on Park Point, I have finally gotten around to approaching this marvel as subject matter. I am so taken by it that I intend to keep painting the bridge in all available light. This little jewel turned out to my liking. I hope you enjoy it too!
“Aerial Lift Bridge II”
11×14 oil on panel
Canal Park Duluth
9×12 oil on panel
“The Farrier”
16×20 oil on canvas – private collection
Along the Conejos River near the New Mexico border at a fly-fishing cabin of an old friend and master painter/outdoorsman Andy Peters. Just about as good as the western life can get. Of course there is always work to be done.
“Warren County Road”
20×24 oil on panel
I went driving around Iowa on Memorial Day looking for cattle. I only found clouds.
“Are you Following Me”
12×12 oil on panel
I find that cows are very curious and nervous around bipeds tracking them down for photo ops.
“Clown Sees First Sunset”
8×10 oil on panel
Henry the Clown tried to hitchhike his way out of town on his escape from the circus he was living in. No one offered Henry a ride and now he is alone and darkness is approaching. He pauses though in revelation on witnessing his very first sunset as a free man. Who knows what tomorrow will bring for our neophyte Henry.
“Clown Goes on Lamb”
8×10 oil on panel
So Henry the clown contemplated the door and has now gone through it out into the world. He is “on the lamb” from the life he was living and is venturing out in the world to see just what it is made of. Stay tuned. We will be right with him through his discoveries, his trials and tribulations, his becoming.
“Clown Contemplating Door”
8×10 oil on panel – private collection
This little painting is the start of a narrative about becoming. About questioning ones self about where in life they are and where they might be headed. Stay tuned as Henry the Clown adventures out into life, loses his innocence and discovers himself.
“Thinker on a Rock”
12×12 oil on panel – pending
In Downtown Des Moines we have a most excellent sculpture park. A subdued painting on a gray day of Nara’s “White Ghost.” Middle ground is Hume’s “Back of Snowman.” and the late Barry Flanagan’s “Thinker on a Rock.”
“Cafe di Scala”
16×20 oil on panel – private collection
“Rittenhouse”
18×24 oil on panel – soldOnce again we walk the dark and rainy streets of Downtown Philadelphia in the area known as Rittenhouse. I am fascinated by the architecture and perspectives of the city. Especially in the rain.
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