Morning Clouds

 

 

​Painted from a photo I took last summer

 in the early dawn, while camping lakeside.

I loved the pastel colors of the morning clouds

against the cerulean blue sky.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

$35.

 

Floating on the Clouds

 

​Painted for DPW's Monet-ish Challenge

of a pond with water lilies and clouds reflecting.

The challenge was to merge sky and water

into a somewhat abstracted painting.

 

8" x 6" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

starting bid $30.

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End of the Day

 

 

​Painted this from a photo I took

from my motel room in Burns, Oregon last summer.

This scene played out across the road

and was so lovely - the colors in the clouds

and the light across the pasture and trees.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

starting bid $30.

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This is Our Land ... 2

 

 

Another painting of the Oregon SE high desert

from a photo I took while traveling through last summer.

I love the landscape there, with it's lovely colors,

and wonderful light.

 Often the sky would have dramatic cloud formations.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

starting bid $30.

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"This Land is Our Land...."

 

 

​Painted this from a photo I took last summer

while traveling through S.E. Oregon's beautiful high desert

from the Nevada border to Burns.

The scenery is often so spectacular that photos and paintings

can hardly capture the scope and actual beauty

in such a confined space as a canvas.

While traveling I was often reminded of the words of a song

which I used as the title.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

starting bid $30.

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Storm Clouds

 

 

​Painted for DPW's "Skying" challenge.

I used a photo I took of a summer storm

moving over the Grand Tetons with Jackson Lake

 in the foreground.

I particularly liked the way the low lying clouds

wrapped themselves around these majestic mountains.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

starting bid $25.

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Island Beach

 

 

Second painting for DPW's Escape the Snow challenge.

I painted this one from the photo provided

of an early morning on a Carolina Island beach,

using a palette knife.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

starting bid $30.

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Sky Show

 

 

​A scene of a spectacular sunset 

over the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

$35.

available on my DPW Gallery

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After the Storm

 

Painted for DPW's storm challenge.

I particularly like the layers of detail in the landscape,

and the wonderful after-the-storm light

in the challenge photo​.

A small surprise was the house hidden in the trees.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

$35.

available on my DPW Gallery

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To Crown the Year

 

 

Recently, I was driving through the countryside

where I live and saw this scene.

I knew that I would have to paint.

It had so many elements that are quintessentially fall in the PNW.

When the rains return, the skies are cloudy and gray;

the cover grasses of farmland fields show a surprising springish green color;

and of course the autumn trees putting on their full show.

 When I finished the painting, I thought the line of trees

banding the farmer's field looked like natures jewelry .

I then, remembered a line from the psalms

that I had always wanted to use for a title

"To Crown the Year!"

A simple painting that I feel reveals a beautiful truth about this season -

it truly is the crown of the year.

 

5" x 7" oil on canvas panel

 

$30.

available on my DPW Gallery

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Spring's Pastels

 

 

​For her Rite of Spring,

 nature dresses her subjects in festive bright pastels,

 bringing to the new season warmth and color.

 

7" x 5" oil on canvas panel

 

$35.

(Available on DPW Gallery)

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Lone Pine

 

 

Painted for DPW "Tree" challenge,

from a photo provided by Laurel Daniel.

I cropped it and chose the landscape shape.

 Kept the fence and enhanced the clouds a bit. 

 A fun painting to do.

 

5" x 7" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

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Intense Beginning

 

 

​Not being a morning person,

 it is rare that I get to witness a sunrise so spectacular as this.

 But I did.

One morning when I was on a road trip, I wanted to get an early start

and was treated to a glorious scene.

I have never forgotten how beautiful the kaleidoscope of colors were,

 that were painted across the clouds and sky and reflected in the lake.

 This is painted from that memory so it is part realism,

part impressionism and part fantasy.

 

7" x 5" oil on canvas

 

available on DPW auction

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Windblown

 

 

The Oregon coast

 is the most wonderful place to be a 'storm watcher".

The strong winds race through the trees

and fling the foamy ocean caps into the air.

 

7" x 5" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

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Colors of the Sea

 

The sea is not just blue or green or gray

but quite often many different colors.

Depending on shadows and light,

sand and seaweed,

sky, clouds and sunlight.

 

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Alpine Glow on the Mountain

 

 

​Painted this from a photo I took of Mt. Hood

 aglow with the pinkish hue of sunset.

I particularly liked the location of this shot

because of the secondary point of interest

in the seasonal creek running through this farmer's land.

The gray skies had tiny traces of pink

 threaded through the rain clouds.

 

5" x 7" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

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Tetons in Winter

 

 

One of my favorite Nat. Parks - Grand Tetons NP.

Painted from a photo I took one year

when I went there at the end of winter.

Visited both parks (Yellowstone, too)

with the beauty of a snowy landscape and lakes frozen over.

I always liked the simplicity and quietude of this scene -

kind of Zen like.

 

 

5" x 7" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

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MIsty Coast

 

 

​The great diversity of landscape along the Oregon coast

makes it a wonderful place to photograph and paint.

Here along the central coast, is a mosaic of beach grasses

 and shallow tide pools, nestled among the sand dunes.

A creek finds its way into the waters of the vast Pacific ocean.

 Low hanging clouds give a misty, watercolor effect to the horizon.

 

5" x 7" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

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Rainbow

 

 

​In the PNW rain is a weather staple,

 but often with many sun breaks,

which send beautiful rainbows

arching across the cloudy skies.

 

8" x 10" oil on canvas panel

 

Painted for DPW skyscape challenge.

 

available on DPW auction (see sidebar)

 

Hood River Barn

 

 

A fall scene of a red barn

 situated in the hills of Hood River below Mt. Hood.

I photographed this on a recent trip

 through the orchards and vineyards

of this lovely valley along the Columbia River.

This painting was done for the DPW Barn challenge.

 

6" x 6" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction