These were some of my most popular paintings. The Saguaro series was very well received and all were sold immediately. Stay tuned for more this year!
Tag Archives: landscape
Double Black
Another Steamboat Springs effort from last week’s ski trip.
With a brush
This is a favorite spot of mine on the mountain. This one I did with brushes, the previous version, with a knife.
With a knife
The Rabbit Ears Motel
Though this piece is still a work in progress, it has been Sold. Stay tuned for more of the Rabbit Ears to come.
Across the Valley
Ski Town
The things I love to do. Ski. Ski Paintings.
WIP
Last man down the Hill
I did a larger version of the last painting. This one is stunning in person. Though un-stretched at present, it is obviously intended for the Colorado markets.
Heavenly Daze
This was the year I returned to Steamboat Springs, Colorado and started a series of alpine paintings destined to the Rocky Mountain gallery market. Inquires to my contact page.
Wild Blue
The new gondola in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The Wild Blue!
Yampa Sleeping Giant
While still a work-in-progress, this strange painting has got me dreaming of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The mountain “Sleeping Giant” looms in the distance as the horses frolic in the snow covered hills.
Yampa Recess
I remain hopeful that I have a major announcement in the days to come!
Steamboat Lair
Work in Progress revisited
Born Day
I usually stay on a subject for a series of takes and sketches. I’ve reached the finish line on this one.
It is Yours
This is a funny little landscape that I did almost unconsciously, and quit when I knew it was enough. It’s a little prize of the process we honor every hard working day, and so very interesting in a subtle and simple way.
Detail of Black Baldies
I feel this is a strong image of Iowa farm life.
Black Baldies
Latest works. Colors are just starting to change.
Untitled Pasture 03
Untitled Pasture 02
Untitled pasture 01
A little reel to prepare for First Friday of the Month Event.
Odebolt Elevator
Untitled Vines
Every painting is a reach in a new direction, or place. The journey is made until the brush is put down. Beginning, middle, end.
Lavalle House
Athene
A proposed pedestrian bridge to be built in West Des Moines connecting Racoon River Park and Walnut Woods State Park. Very exciting.
Crop Reserve
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!
Amish Harvestore
This is an exciting painting. The unified palette being the reasoning. I gravitate toward the secondary colors, and this one is exemplary of this focus on orange, green, and violet, with a touch of blue in the Harvestore Silo and the faded alizarin crimson in the sky and along the horizon.
Bus Route
The early morning bus ride is often in the magical time of day for most kids who live out in the country.
Brenton Farm Silos
Port
You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see the treasures glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.
Night and the City
This sky will not let me go. So, one more before I attempt a larger one. Enjoy.
Iowa Farm Night III
I kind of like how this little series is developing. Time to try it on a larger scale. Be back soon!
Iowa Farm at Night – No. II
I continue to experiment with the many directions one feels are necessary to explore with oil paint.
West End
This is a larger version of my last painting. It was an hour later, so the pedestrians have changed!
Light Rain
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.
Serenity Close
It took me a long time to finish this painting. And it’s brighter, with more of a pastel palette than this photo delivers. It’s so soft and quiet. One you have to see in person to allow it to complete its sentiments of the day.
Farm
While I am studying and formulating my next ideas of the landscape and it’s language, I’ve delved in to highly abstracted observations in an effort to better solidify my path and direction. I did a series of three 12×12 square panels, this being the first. Stay tuned!
Sauk Country
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.
The New Horizon
2021 has come to a close with this last plein air study. Here I now stand, after following the rules of classical form for five years of painting, at the precipice of knowing that what lies ahead is toward the abstract. In order to avoid painting another ho-hum landscape, albeit ones with sound harmony and sensibilities, I’ve realized, from recent in-depth studies of the principles of Cezanne, that true art comes from the corruption and violation of nature. One is otherwise making a replica or a copy of her. The picture is the thing. It is its own thing. A two dimensional thing that must be created in its own right. I’m setting out. Wish me luck.
4240
This is, most likely, my last signed painting of 2021. A little 11×14 house commission. Next year, I intend to turn a corner, instilling some new painting direction into my work. Stay tuned and Happy New Year!
Keo Way @ 12th St. – DSM
The north view looking out of my studio in downtown Des Moines at approximately 4:00 PM on a misty Friday night. I had been reading Erle Loran’s book on Cezanne, and it has influenced me. The color planes, the open palette, the lines, and the means, which were his own, by which he created depth.
Continue readingThe Golden Gate
I lived in California for five years in the early 90’s. As a school age kid, I was a California dreamer. Volkswagen beetles and flower power seemed very alluring to me. The entire west did. I eventually discovered it all and, the west and its beauty became my inspiration to paint. The Golden Gate Bridge represented the entire promise of what the west had to offer. Today, it is a vastly different cultural and political climate but, the beauty remains. This painting will most assuredly find a home.
Air Show
I started this air show painting last week, from a reference photo of a Colorado friend who attended the show earlier this month. Though the scale was a bit daunting at only 11×14, I finally got around to finishing.
Racoon River in Water Works
This is the result of a two-hour plein air excursion in Des Moines. Though it is not finished, I am hesitant to paint on it again to guard against altering its freshness.
128 Corn
I have just a few adjustments to make, and then I’ll sign this one. Edit: you are now looking at the updated and final version. Thx!
R16 and 270th. Dallas County Sunrise.
I’ve been driving around the surrounding farmlands this summer and fall, taking photos of future paintings. I just got around to facing, and finishing this one, after starting it a month ago, and being intimidated by the light in it.