Horse Painting - Across a Quiet Pasture

I came across these horses in a quiet, secluded pasture several years ago.  I painted them into a scene from my imagination earlier this year.  This piece is one of my paintings from the quiet and peaceful American heartland. 

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Original Little Farm Paintings

I like the challenge of painting in different sizes for my original farm & barn paintings.  Here is a selection of little paintings that I have done in a small 5 x 7" size, painted in acrylic paint on archival quality hardboard panels.  These little pieces easily frame up into a standard sized picture frame.

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Near the Quiet Stream

It s been a while since I have painted one of my overcast stream paintings. I really enjoy painting different types of weather in my landscapes. This scene makes me think of one of those still quiet days in the country, where you can hear the sounds from a very long ways away.

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Red Barn on a Quiet Farm Landscape Painting

Red Barn on an Old Farm

This painting was inspired by the old red barns and white farmhouses that were once so common along the country backroads, that I love.  There is something so peaceful and pleasant about being out in the country on a quiet summers day!  I hope to capture that in my paintings of summer time in the beautiful American Heartland.     

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Old red barn in a quiet summer landscape

Red Barn in a Quiet Field 

This landscape was inspired by the old wooden red barns that once were so common along the country back roads that I love. As time goes on, there are fewer and fewer of them left standing. I painted this simple red barn into a quiet summers landscape scene from my imagination. The piece is on a gallery wrapped canvas with finished edges. It comes ready to hang.
I hope that you will enjoy viewing my vision and glimpses of the quiet, old rural landscapes of the American heartland. Old farms, barns, cattle, sheep, meadows and big open skies, are often the inspiration for my art. I have been influenced by the old Barbizon, Tonalist, & Luminist painters for my original dreamscape, landscape paintings.

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My Country Landscape Blog has moved over to my web site now.

Thank you so much for stopping by my art blog.  I moved it over to my web site last year and have continued it there.  If you would like to visit and see what I have been posting since earlier last year, please visit my new blog link below.   

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  Abstract Farm Under a Yellow Sky

 

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Here are two recent slightly abstracted, farm landscape paintings, that I have completed.  I have ideas for several more floating around in my head to work on in the near future too.  

 

Sunset Over the Old Stone Farmhouse

If you have seen my paintings over time, you may have guessed that I love old farmhouses and am especially fond of old stone ones.  I painted wisps of smoke coming from the chimney of this farmstead scene, with a pastel sunset sky and clouds overhead.   It makes me happy to think of warmer weather ahead, after a long hard winter here in the Midwest.  Early summer is my favorite time of year and I look forward to those warm, quiet, windless days during that time of year.   

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Paintings at 'The Peaceable Kingdom: Animals, Real and Imagined' juried art Exhibit in CA

For these pieces I used some of our farm pets in each of the country scenes.  The top painting has one of our bantam mix roosters in the piece.  He was a beautiful rooster who's feathers glistened a beautiful range of blacks, greens, aquas, golds, and blues in the sunlight. 

The middle painting is of "Miss Pecky", our heritage "Mottled Black" turkey hen.  She is getting up in turkey years as she will be 6 years old this summer.  She was one of our turkeys that we hatched in an incubator from fertile eggs that I bought online.  We had a great hatch rate on them and they bonded to us as chicks. 

The bottom paintings features one of our half wild farm tom cats that lived on our farmstead for several years before he disappeared.  He was from a very wild tortoise shell mother cat who wandered in, and stayed for a few years, living in our barn.  We finally got him somewhat tamed, yet he always had a wild streak in him.  He was a beautiful tom cat.      

Here are my paintings that are currently on exhibit at 'The Peaceable Kingdom: Animals, Real and Imagined' juried art exhibit at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA.  This show runs from March 3 through May 19, 2013.  

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Rare Heritage Livestock Turkey Original Painting "Miss Pecky"

Meet "Miss Pecky". This is one of several of my paintings that have been juried into 'The Peaceable Kingdom: Animals, Real and Imagined' art show at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA. This show is in the San Francisco bay area, if you are in CA. The show will run from March 3 - May 19, 2013. Miss Pecky is one of our pet heritage turkeys that we raised from fertile eggs. We hatched them in an incubator and have kept them as pets since. She is a hen turkey of a type known as the "Mottled Black". Pecky was named because of her habit of pecking at anything shiny or interesting, and has never grown out of this. She is over 5 years old, which is getting up there in turkey years!

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Would you Like an Outhouse?

My grandparents still had their old outhouse standing when I was a kid. It was at the end of a long sidewalk, out near the rose trellis in their yard. It was no longer needed at that point, as they had long had indoor plumbing by then. As a kid, I found it pretty interesting with its creaky old door and spider webs inside. This painting brought back old memories of my grandparents farm as I worked on it.

Speaking of outhouses, have you heard of a "privy dig"? I first heard of it about a dozen years ago, while looking at some antique doll parts. There are people who dig out old outhouses to find old bottles, and other interesting household items, that were disposed of there. Some valuable things have been found in old privy's.

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