Arizona Mountain

by | May 18, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

This image of Arizona was a fun location and painting for me. It brings together so many thoughts feelings visual images. I had always wanted to go to Arizona since I was in college and saw my first issue of Arizona magazine. It seems to me that the dessert offered so...

Preliminary painting development takes some of the anxiety out of painting. “Woman with Basket”

by | Apr 4, 2011 | concepts in painting, Education, Historical Sites, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air, sport, Table of Contents

For as long as I can remember I have heard how beneficial doing pencil sketches, small thumbnails or color studies can benefit my work. But thinking I know better, I skip ahead missing these important steps. Now I go back to these most important steps in developing a...

Rural America

by | Mar 15, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale

It takes so long to find your way as a painter. I have heard a lifetime. Though I have enjoyed many accomplishments, I feel that I have just now taken my first big step in understanding myself and what I want to paint and how I want to paint it. I have heard that many...

Old Door

by | Mar 12, 2011 | Historical Sites, Oil Paintings for Sale

This door so impressed me on the old farmhouse in Russelville Ohio. I was not sure I would be able to capture all of the rustic nature of the old wood and weathered paint that was self-destructing and lifting itself from the wood it was attached to. The color changes...