Night Sky Painting Series - Under the Big dipper III

This night sky painting is the third in my "Under the Big Dipper" night sky series that I
started later last year. The first three of these paintings have already been sold into
private collections and the fourth one is currently available for sale.   I love how out in
the flat Midwestern country side, one can see for miles around and the big open night
time sky, full of stars at night.  I have painted these pieces with an iconic old red
and simple farmhouses, for the scenes that I enjoy painting so.   

An Old Swedish Farm as a Contemporary Farm Portrait Painting

I have been too busy to post here for while now.  Currently I am working on a commissioned painting of a custom farm portrait for a client.  This will be a present for their husband so is under wraps for now!  I will plan to post it here on my blog in the future, with my clients ok after it has been delivered.  Here is an example of a previous farm portrait that I painted in the past.  

This portrait was painted for a couple in Sweden of their farm.  They wanted me to include their three pet cats in the scene also.  This was a fun painting to work on!   

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Sheep by a Quiet Old Farm Painting

Just a Little Ways from Home

I have had an idea for a new sheep painting floating around in my head for a couple of months now.  This is the newly finished painting from that idea.  I painted this quiet sheep into an overcast farm scene from my imagination.  I really like painting a variety of atmosphere in my country landscapes, from blue skies filled with puffy white clouds, to overcast and misty scenes, to stormy and night time skies.  I am currently working on a starry night landscape with a horse in a silent farm painting. 

The sides of the gallery wrapped canvas are painted to match, and it is wired to hang, so no framing is necessary!  

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 

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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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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A couple of new small farm landscape paintings by Sharon France

 I have been working on some small paintings this past couple of months.  Here are two of the ones that I have completed now.   Deciding on what sort of weather and time of day is one of the fun things that I like about landscape painting!  I have painted everything from sunny blue skies, cloud filled skies, overcast skies, sunsets skies, stormy skies, tornado scenes, night paintings and others in between.  These two painting measure just 5 x 7", painted on archival quality hardboard panels. 

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

 

 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.  

 

Top 10 Artist Work ~ Original Paintings by Sharon France

My original art was chosen by Guest Curator Stephen Collins of the TV show "Property Envy", as #4 of his top 10 favorite artists (out of 500) on Ugallery.com.

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Large Barn Landscape Painting 24" x 36"

In the Summer Field

This is currently the largest painting that I have available, measuring 24" x 36".  I wanted to paint this piece with one of my simple blue summer skies, that represent the type that I love here in the Midwest.  This painting is completely done from my imagination and represents the quiet, austere, peacefulness that one can find here yet in the American Heartland.  

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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.  

Bald Eagle Landed on our Farmstead

A bald eagle landed on an old tree on our farmstead yesterday. My husband spotted an immature one here a couple of years ago briefly. Maybe the same one that just visited again? They are an extremely rare site in our area, so we were happy to see it.

I have been working on a new cow painting in oil this week, along with a long landscape of one of our tom turkeys, in acrylic too.  I always have several paintings in progress at once.  This gives me time to let one dry as I work on another one, and also time to think of what I want to do next.   I will be posting them in the future when they are finally complete. 

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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Turkey Chase

This is the real life "Miss Pecky" from my painting that I posted on Jan. 25th. This photo was taken when she was a youngster yet. I was working on the turkey pen that day, and had leaned down to fix something. Pecky came up and grabbed a glove out of my back pocket, and led the other turkeys on a wild chase around the pen, as they all tried to get it from her!

This is one of several of my paintings that have been juried into 'The Peaceable Kingdom: Animals, Real and Imagined' art exhibition 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.
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Rooster and Girl on a Country Walk

A New Pet

Well as you can guess, this painting is definitely from my imagination! I had this idea in my head for a few weeks, before I finally sat down to put it on canvas.  I decided on a rooster in this rural scene to go along with the girl who has appeared in some of my past paintings.   They are headed towards a small shed that came from my memories of an old well pump house, that was on the old farmstead that we rented years ago.  The rooster was one of a line of bantam mix chickens that we have had over the years.  He had beautiful colors in his feathers that glistened in the sun.This is another of my paintings that is headed to 'The Peaceable Kingdom: Animals, Real and Imagined' art show, at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA.

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Farm Bales & Shed Misty Farmland Scene

Bales by the Old Shed

I kept passing by a field of large straw bales on my way to town this past fall. It was the inspiration for this painting. I added a shed from my imagination with a rooster weather vane on top. I decided on a misty overcast early morning setting for this piece. The painting measures 24" long by 12" tall, done on stretched canvas.

This piece is currently available for sale on my web site.

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What Painting is on my Easel Today?

I am working on a couple of small paintings right now. This is the painting that is on my easel today. The original knob wore out on the easel years ago, so my husband added an old faucet handle, to use as a knob instead. I like it better anyways! This new piece is of an old farmhouse with a distant barn and shed, on a very small 7 x 5" board. This is near the window that I paint by, with an overcast winter sky outside today. I prefer natural light but on days like this need some backup light also to paint by. A juniper bush outside the window, that I planted years ago (as a very small bush), needs another trim in the spring. I am almost done with this painting as I just have a few things to finish up on it yet. I am starting to think about spring here already, especially with the unusual warm weather here this week.

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Completed Old Farmstead Painting

This is the painting that I showed a couple close up views of recently, as I was working on it. I just finished it up earlier today and it is now available for sale on my web site. If you have followed my work you may have guessed, that I like showing smoke coming from old chimneys.

On a Remote Farm

This piece measures 16 x 8" and is done on stretched canvas. The edges are painted to match, so no framing is needed.

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Icelandic Sheep Painting at Chicago Art Gallery Show

This painting is the first in my new series that I started working on late in 2012. I decided on an ewe, of a heritage breed of Icelandic Sheep, as the main subject for this painting "Near Home". We raise a few heritage turkeys and chickens after starting with a "Bourbon Red Turkey" tom, that we brought home from a Rare Breeds Livestock show. I will be posting more paintings from my new series of farm landscapes of heritage life stock, as the year goes on.

This piece is currently in a juried show at the Bridgeport Art Gallery in Chicago, IL through Jan. 2013.

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Red Barn in a Red Poppy Field Painting

In case you are wondering where I come up with Midwestern landscape paintings with red poppies in them, well they are definitely from my imagination, as poppies are not a field crop in the Heartland.  We have grown quite a few varieties of flowers on our old farmstead over the years.  In a small naturalized meadow area I had planted seeds for the red Flanders Poppies, and they did naturalize there for us for a number of years.  These are the poppies that are thought of on Veteran's day and were known for growing on the damaged battlefields in Europe, especially from WWI in Flanders Field, Belgium.  I love the bright color of these poppies and decided to work them into my landscapes, when I think they will work well in a painting.   This piece is my newest painting that I just finished up this week.   

Red Barn in a Red Poppy Field

Acrylic paint on stretched canvas 16" x 8"

$380.00 

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