Silver Birch Shadows © 2009 painted at my favorite little local park, Silve Birch framed in a simple green and brown wood frame.
Frontenac Coulee   11 1/2 " x 18"  plus floater frame    Painted on a deck overlooking a deep coulee    at Villa Maria, a retreat center in Frontenac, MN     It was a cool damp day and we painted with gloves     with the finger tips open. It was actually sleeting.
Silver Birch Park_Summer 09 16" x 16" I've been drawn to this little lake near my home. I used some of the principles taught by Andrew Wykes.  If you look close, you can see some of the lines inscribed into the half finished painted to give myself a better idea of the relationship between shapes within the painting.
Arkansaw Creek, Summer 2009   SOLD 13 1/2" x 18" plus 3+ inch rustic dark burl frame This painting done in the quiet creek that  trickles through our little village of Arkansaw, WI.  The sandstone walls and the light coming through the trees were the interest and challenge.  The irony in this subject is that the quiet creek, three weeks later, turned into a raging flash flood when our area was deluged with 9 inches of rain in three hours.  The creek went from one foot deep to fifteen feet deep that night!  The bridge in the painting was taken out by the flood.

McIllrath Farmyard   SOLD 16" x 20" This painting was done during a workshop with Andrew Wykes, through the Lake Pepin Art & Design Center. There is a lot of texture due to the affect that I used an old canvas with a layer of impasto underneath.  This was painted on a beautiful warm weekend in mid May.  The only green was the cerise of the weeping willow and the grass. This painting is currently unframed but is gallery wrapped around  deep stretcher bars.
Hicks Valley Landscape   SOLD 12 " x 18 " plus a 4 inch wide frame This painting was also done during the Andrew Wykes workshop. Very early spring.
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