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The Journey

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The Journey  For my last painting post of 2021, I want to share this abstracted landscape painting. I finished it right before Christmas, but just like many of you, I have been preparing for and spending time with family celebrating Jesus' birth, and the close of this year and beginning of the next. I have enjoyed focusing on them instead of my computer for the last little while.  There have been quite a few surprising bumps along the way in this last couple of weeks as well. I have three family members dealing with health concerns, and we are still planning to visit some family in another state. I hope the weather is better than what has been predicted for our drive!  12" x 12" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep gallery wrapped canvas Edges painted black Click here to view or purchase on my website. I finished another painting, too, right before Christmas, but haven't yet shared it. I guess it will be my first post in 2022. This smaller

Hoosier Harvest

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  Early during the harvest season this year, I was driving home from an art event as evening approached, and I saw the scene that inspired Hoosier Harvest. Here in northern Indiana, one is never very far from a field of corn. I was on the freeway, but saw a darkening field of corn with lights from a tractor or pickup truck lighting up the barn at the edge of the field. Obviously, I didn't have time to stop to  study the scene , or even to  take a photo , since I was driving full speed toward home. But the scene made an impression in my memory and I wanted to try to capture the feeling of warmth that I found in that moment.  36" x 12" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on canvas Framed Click here to view or purchase on my website. This work is quite different from my usual style, and because it is painted on a linen, regular depth canvas, I will probably be framing it before long.  Does this painting remind you of someone or of another time? I have never

O Christmas Tree

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O Christmas Tree What inspires you to make whatever it is that you make? I hope you make something, and that you know at least a few ways to get your creative fire lit so that you are eager to make that thing! This painting came about by my looking at other art that I like. I saw something that might not even remind you of this painting if you saw them side by side, but it made me see the Christmas tree painted in this style in my mind's eye, and I was eager to see what I could make!  As I mention every now and then, paintings are often much more interesting in person than  in a photo on a screen. This one has lots of texture and has iridescent marks on the tree that I could not figure out how to capture with a camera. I wish I could show them to you! 11" x 14" Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper Ready to frame Click here to view or purchase on my website.  My friend came today to see some of my pai

Wall calendars for 2022

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For the first time in several years, I am offering wall calendars with several of my paintings for sale. (I have made them for family and a few close friends in the last couple of years, but have not offered them for sale.)  The calendar features 12 of my favorite paintings from this year, plus one on the cover. Some of these works are sold already, so this is a good way to enjoy each one for a month in your house! Each calendar is $25 plus shipping and handling. Please contact me via email or comment to purchase. Thank you, and Merry Christmas!

Another look at Incarnation, 2013

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Another long time favorite painting of mine that IS on my website is Incarnation, a painting from 2013.  As is often the case, I am surprised that this one is still available, but then I remember that it hasn't been seen very often!  11" x 14", image plus white border Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper Ready to frame Click here to view or purchase on my website.  I have not yet found my focus for this year's Christmas, but by this time in 2013 I was already focused on this concept of incarnation, as you can see in this painting's original blog post here.   The way the earthy, rich color cuts through the lighter tones seems so effective for this idea.  A passage from my daily Bible reading that has started to nudge my imagination also highlights Jesus' incarnation.  Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all thin

Another relatively unfamiliar piece from the archives

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I Would See Jesus  I finally got my nativity collection out yesterday. The boxes had been out since Thanksgiving, and were driving me crazy. I had a new painting from a fellow artist hanging near them, and somehow it just didn't look quite right to me. So I started reviewing some of my older work to see what would fit with the theme, and I found I Would See Jesus, from 2017. This painting fits in so well with the grouping, and brings so much color into the room! 11" x 14" Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on gallery wrapped, deep canvas It is yet another work that is not featured on my website, and can be purchased through the original blog post here .  Though the painting was painted in September of that year, I think it is particularly fitting for this years celebration of the coming of Jesus into our world. "I Would See Jesus" seems like what I would expect to hear from the shepherds and wisemen, of whom we read in the gospel recounting

Advent Tree

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Advent Tree  Yesterday I went out for a walk before the sun came up. It was so pleasant to get back in the woods in the almost-morning-light, and by the time I started toward the house  the sun came up . I heard some odd noises as I walked, and I think I interrupted a squabble between a raccoon and an opossum !  As I neared the house, a little tree we planted caught my eye. I am sure it was only a year ago or so that we planted the little twig, but the tree is the same height as me. How does that happen? I loved the sparkle of frost on the grass around the tree, and on the bluish-greenish-gray needles. The light coming from behind the tree caught my attention too.  6" x 6" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep gallery wrapped canvas Edges painted black Click here to view or purchase on my website. So THIS morning, I painted before breakfast (and before sunrise, I think). I really wanted to capture some of the beauty of this tree.  And, I think the