Up from the road there are lots of great shadows to paint!  This is an interpretation of a hill near Spearfish, SD.  10×10 – $105- this piece can be found at the Prairie Edge Art Gallery in Rapid City, SD.  

Who wants a piece of land in Minnesota? I do!  This is some random farmland near Rochester, MN. I love the layers of color you can see when you look across the rolling fields of corn, grass, sorghum, etc…

This is a photo I took around the National Guard Camp here in RC.  Just some backlit pines with the evening sky in the background. 10×10- $105 – this piece can be found at the Prairie Edge Fine Art Gallery

This is a commission for a dear friend.  It measures 8×24.  I will post the original photo when I am finished.  Here we have the first two layers.   These are the mountains near Sheridan, WY.

This view is on Hwy 385 through the hills.  I enjoy playing with the colors of spring.  This painting is 8×8 inches priced at $85.00 in my Rapid City art Gallery – Prairie Edge Fine Art.  

These are some lovely red rock formations looking off the the left as you enter the canyon into Hot Springs from HWY 79.  The cloud formations had me at hello so I had to paint them.  This painting is 8×8 inches and is priced at $85.00 for sale at my Rapid City Gallery Prairie Edge [...]

View looking east from Hot Springs away from the half finished Mammoth statue on the hill.  This is right before a late summer storm.  Mammoth is 8×8 inches and is $85.00 at my Rapid City Gallery, the Prairie Edge Fine Art Gallery.    

So here is the finished piece.  I washed out the first foreground and wiped it off with a paper towel (literally -pretty amazing) and then did a brighter orange foreground with some fine line work.  Love this!  I am so happy to know where it now lives!  Happy painting friends!   This painting is a [...]

First painting with a structure since my torn paper series.  One of those has a telephone lines and a road.

Stay Awhile is the second sunset painting.  I love how successful the colors are in this first layer. This second layer has a really nice appeal.  The brighter blue is a more opaque water paint called Gouache.  (pronounced Gwash).  Its really giving my clouds some interesting depth. Finally a nice photo of this painting.  These [...]