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.

Please click here to view these original little paintings in my Etsy Shop.  

Modern Farm Paintings

Old Farm Under a Pink Sky

5 x 7" on archival hardboard panel.   

I am in the midst of working on a series of little country landscape paintings right now.  These study paintings are from memories and thoughts that I have of old country farmsteads.  I use them to work out ideas to possibly use for my larger canvas paintings. 

I have loved the country as far back as I can remember.   I look forward to painting and the peace that I find in it.  I hope that you may find that in viewing my original art work also. 

This painting has already been sold.  

Little Country Farm

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Farm Art Originals 

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.     

Please visit my web site for more info. on this and my other farm paintings and country landscape art.

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  Abstract Farm Under a Yellow Sky

 

 Red Barn - Yellow Fields      Sold

 

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.  

 

Gothic Farmstead Painting in Progress

 

As I was working on this painting I stopped to take a few photographs along the way to show some of the step by step progression.  I first paint in the sky and then land area on a painting in 2-3 layers of paint.   After that I will sit and look at the canvas at that point and envision what I will paint into the scene.  I usually have a fairly good idea in my mind before this, but often when viewing the base layers on the canvas, I may decide to go a different direction that I had original thought!    

 

 

I paint in the clouds and the Gothic style farmhouse, red barn and shed here, deciding upon spacing and placement of them on the canvas as I do so. 

 

 Gothic house as the first layer blocked in. 

 

 

 Old red barn and shed with the window areas darkened in and roof shading here. 

 

 I have now added the dark areas of the windows and front door at this point and have started on the roof color layers and shading also.  

 

 

 

 

 The land area has had multiple layers of brush work added now and a little flock of sheep painted in now also.   Last fall I photographed part of a flock of sheep out grazing in a rural pasture about 10 miles from here.  The sheep first came up along the fence to see if I had anything for them to eat and after hanging around for a while, wandered back out into the pasture again.  

 

  

 

The full completed painting measures 24 x 36" on stretched canvas. 

 

I love the views of the big blue Midwestern sky that we have here in the heartland.  We live in a very flat area and you can see for miles around.  Great for watching storms come in!  It has been a very long winter here, as many people in the U.S. have experienced this year.  I love to think ahead of the warm spring and summer days ahead.  This painting makes me think of those perfect summer days with a light breeze and puffy white clouds overhead!  

 

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Snowy Owl at Sunrise on our old Farmstead

What a neat surprise we had yesterday morning.  Right around sunrise, a huge snow owl landed here on our old farmstead and stayed around for a while.  It landed on several of the trees and our old red barn, while it was here.  It sat bobbing its head around for about 10 minutes, while on the barn roof.  Glad that our barn cat stayed inside while it was here! 

Up, Up and Away!

I have been tardy on posting to my blog in recent months!  Nonetheless though, I have been busy painting.  Here is the finished goat painting that I had posted just a clip of, when I was still early on in its progress.

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Poppy Farm Painting currently on exhibit in Harrisonburg VA

In the Red Poppy Field

12 x 24" acrylic paint on stretched canvas.  

We are getting into my favorite time of year here in the Midwestern Heartland.  The newly planted fields are just starting to show rows of new corn coming though, against the beautiful rich black, prairie soils that we have been blessed with here in this part of the Midwest.  I love the clouds that float along our lovely blue summer skies, casting shadows across the fields as they go by.  Although poppies are not a crop grown in this part of the country, I love adding them to by farm scenes to go along with my iconic old red barns.  

If you happen to be on the east coast, this painting is currently on exhibit in Harrisonburg, VA at the Park Gables Gallery - VMRC, annual Juried Art Exhibition, until Sunday, June 30, 2013.  This piece was also previously exhibited at the Freeport Art Museum in Freeport, IL.

Devon Cattle Painting from France Gallery

Best Buddies

My newest painting, done in soft pastel, on thick museum grade pastel paper, shows two steers of the Milking Devon Breed of Heritage Cattle.  This was a very early breed of cattle to arrive here, as early as 1623.  This breed was known for their "speed, intelligence, strength, willingness to work" as draft animals for the early colonists, in the U.S.  The two steers that I used as the models for this painting, live an good life at a Farm Museum here in the Midwest. 

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Commissioned Farm Painting

This is a commissioned painting that I just finished up this week.  I paint commissioned farm and farmhouse scenes in both small and large sizes.  I have painted them similar to paintings that I have already done, and as scenes from a clients own photographs of their family farmstead.  If you are interested in commissioning a piece, I will be glad to work out the details with you and give you a price estimate.  

Snow out my window today!

Here is a photo that I just took of the view out the window that I paint near. We had a lot of grass showing this morning and you could see the gravel drive. The snow has come down quickly to change the looks of the landscape around here.   It was almost white out conditions earlier, but has let up for right now.  We need the moisture for the soil, so we are lucky to get it.  I have been busy getting a painting ready to send off to the "Animals in Art" Exhibit at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and working on an entry for another juried exhibition.  I have one of my miniature 4 x 6" paintings on the easel that I am in the midst of working on too.