This is a smaller version of the last painting. They both worked out marvelously. The sky and the water both have the full spectrum of color in them.
Early June Rain
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Flooded Field on Old Hwy 6
Iowa Corn Harvest
Strata 7
This is the seventh painting in the stratified series.
Murmuration above the Plains
Final Approach
Prairie Twilight
Jubilee
“Most every night
The confetti falls at dusk
Like a Jubilee”
Harvest Party
I’ve been concentrating on skies. In this series, I intend to pull them apart.
Halo
The 7th in the Bird on a wire series. The sky being the star again.
Strata Field
Third in the striated series on paper.
Happy Hour
Gossip Hour
Frat Party
I keep returning to the subject matter that I often refer to as nothingness. A seemingly empty sky on a field of 136 day old corn and a murmur of Starlings coming to perch.
Somewhere in central London
Sometimes I have to turn away from a current series and do something completely different. Today it was black and white cityscape day. We have been to London three times in the last two years, renting a flat for a week with friends, then traveling on. Last fall it was a week in the Cotswolds. Loved!
Fallow and light
36×36 oil paint on gallery wrap canvas
Chattering
Driving around central Iowa during the early harvest and you often will find a group, a grumble, or a chattering of starlings in the fields.
Murmur
I recently added the birds to this painting, which was earlier posted as Early Corn. This version is much more desirable to be around.
Fallow BFK
41×29 oil on Rivas BFK paper
This is a new support and a new process I am experimenting with. MJ Harding non-absorbent primer and paint on Rives BFK paper.
Fallow
This is fifth in a series of large format corn harvest paintings. This one being 2 miles east of Granger, Iowa. The sky all subtle hues of the three primary and three secondary colors from horizon to zenith. Violet, red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.
Party Line
Love the Iowa Sky in Fall at harvest time.
Vanishing Point Sanibel
Every now and then I have to paint with a knife to see and feel that very fresh paint. This is the beach on Sanibel.
Ian Survivor
I continue to be infatuated with my own little happy staycation place, Sanibel, Florida. The Sea Grape tree, plant, bush, shrub really, is of particular interest since the devastating effects of hurricane Ian. Enjoy.
Ibis Beachside
My sixth painting in the Southwest Florida Series. This one was so fun, I will be painting more with the Ibis, and in larger formats. Stay tuned!
Sea grape
Here is my second in a series of the Florida Gulf Coast area in and around Sanibel Island. This is often what it looks like early morning Mid April. Stay tuned for more!
Odebolt, Iowa grain elevator 2
Searching for new Iowa towns to paint. Let me know your ideas!
Across the Valley
This piece I deemed finished earlier this year, then decided it needed more foreground. I think the snowy trees turned out pretty well.
Summer Day in Paris
I spent some time in early June in Paris and London. this is the first in a series of city scapes. Stay tuned!
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
Ski Town
The things I love to do. Ski. Ski Paintings.
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.
Black Baldies
Latest works. Colors are just starting to change.
Odebolt Elevator
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!
Bus Route
The early morning bus ride is often in the magical time of day for most kids who live out in the country.
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!
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.
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.
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