Country Road©

This is a plein air painting I did right down the street from my home.  While painting this people would stop to see what I was doing.  What a great way to meet the neighbors!!
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Oil on Raymar Canvas Board.......8"W X 10"H

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Hiking At Brookdale©

Brookdale Forest Preserve is a beautiful little park right outside of Harvard, Illinois.  My friend
MaryBeth and I plein air paint there often. I painted this one Friday morning when the sun was coming up.  I love how the light filters through the trees.

Oil on Raymar canvas board.......8"W X 8"H

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Family Fun©

Wisconsin is one of my favorite places to visit and get some really nice photos. This is a painting from one of those photographs.  Nancy, who is my friend and one of my biggest collectors, told me that she loved it when my paintings told a story. So that has inspired me......to tell a story with my paintings by adding people or animals. Thank you for viewing my blog.

Oil on Raymar canvas board....11W" X H"

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Let's Go Fishing©

This is a Plein Air painting I did at a local forest preserve.  I especially enjoyed adding the father and son that were fishing that morning.  It reminded me of when my dad would take my sister and I fishing.

Oil on canvas panel,  8"H X 10"W

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Plein Air painting at the Clearing in Dorr County.  This was actually the first

painting I did.  My main focus was painting buildings, the background was 

just suggested in each of the Plein Air paintings I did.

The Old Tool Shed©

The Old Tool Shed ©
The Mainstreet Art Center staff went up to The Clearing in Dorr County,  Wisconsin for
four days of painting and fun!!  The weather was so awesome I ended up Plein Air painting
all four days! This is the first of three that I painted.

Original Oil Painting On Canvas Panel.    6"x12"

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Watts Marina ©

I pass Watts Marina on my way to work every day.  I had fun putting people into the painting, along with trying my hand at painting boats. It was a fun and challenging painting experience!
Oil on canvas on panel, 11"H x 14"W

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State Line Pastures ©

I competed this quick study primarily using my palette knife.  The horses are grazing on a pasture down the road from our home.  I have been wanting to paint these horses for awhile now.  This little masterpiece is the first in a series of horse paintings I plan to complete in the near future. 

Oil on canvas on panel, 6"H x 8"W

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Winter Thaw ©

 Oil on canvas on panel, 12"W x 16"H

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Winter Thaw is a Plein air painting I did when it warmed up last weekend.  This is a creek that is just down the road from where I live......so beautiful!! I thought you might enjoy seeing what I saw as I painted this small masterpiece in the snow.

Yosemite Prairie ©

This past fall I visited Yosemite, California. I was there to attend my nieces wedding.  Yosemite is so huge that we were only able to see a small portion of the park. It was gorgeous and as beautiful as I remembered from my childhood!! I took many reference photos of Yosemite National Park, hoping to capture the magnificent scenery in future paintings created in my studio.  This is my first attempt.  I am pleased with the results. Stay tuned for more. 

Oil on canvas on panel, 8x8"

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Out My Front Porch ©

This is a plein air painting of the land across the street from my house.  Every morning the sun hits the trees in different ways, each day revealing something prettier than the day before. On this particular morning I spotted a deer, so of course I had to put her in the painting.

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Harry ©

This is a wolf that I took a photo of in Ely, Minnesota at the International Wolf Center.  He let me know who was in charge.
Pastel on Board, 11"W x 14"H

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