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Prairie Waves is a painting of a photo my friend Bonny took.  I love her work! This painting is for sale on Etsy!  Check it out Here! “Prairie Waves” remind me of so many places in the world. Long sweeping views of prairie grass with hills in the background. Where does this image take you? [...]

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    The beautiful ocean on a stormy day. All Day Long- All day long in fog and wind, The waves have flung their beating crests Against the palisades of adamant. My boy, he went to sea, long and long ago, Curls of brown were slipping underneath his cap, He looked at me from blue [...]

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Evening Prairies The orangey yellow prairie of fall finds its way up the foothills near Edgemont, SD. My hometown. About the artwork ~ • Size: Each canvas is 4×4 with a 1.5 inch depth – you will receive both in this listing • Materials: 100% cotton canvas – museum wrapped • Surface is sealed with [...]

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Big Sur Day is a painting of you guessed it, the view of the ocean near Big Sur.  You can purchase this piece from my Etsy page- http://www.etsy.com/listing/98789630/original-watercolor-landscape-big-sur

MallRidge#4

This painting is the 4th in a series entitled “Mall Ridge”, which is an area in the north part of Rapid City that has some undeveloped prairie land adjacent to the shopping mall.  It is difficult not to fall in love with the different colors in the prairie.  This original watercolor painting measures 24×36 with [...]

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This is the left side in a duo of paintings.  The two paintings are an abstract look at the beautiful hills on i90 near Spearfish, SD.  This style is from an earlier series I did using monochromatic backdrops and sumi ink line drawing for detail.  Some examples are-  Blue Spring and South Red Hills.  This painting [...]

Sturgisreds

  In the Black Hills there are places where the topsoil falls away into perfectly placed red clay potholes.  The clay is red orange and looks bright and beautiful in the spring rain.  This spot is just before Sturgis, SD on a hill next to the freeway.  During 4 years of college I drove past [...]

Steamboat

There is this place on Nemo Road in SD called Steamboat rock.  It is a sweet little picnic area.  Across the creek from the picnic area theres a big rock that looks like a steamboat, thus the name.  This photo ended up being Steamboat with quite a bit of the Black Hills in the background. [...]

ViewFromUpHere

This is a painting of the view from Box Hill in Surrey, UK.  Those fields remind me of home.  It was so much fun to hike and have a picnic just like Emma from Jane Austen.  This painting is an 8×8 original on canvas for sale at the Prairie Edge Art Gallery in Rapid City, [...]

MistySisters

This is a view of the sister hills near Nemo, SD.  What a beautiful drive.  This painting is 8×8 inches and is available at the Prairie Edge Art Gallery in Rapid City, SD for $85.00.