Painting Instead of Blogging

I have been busy painting and not getting around to blog for quite a while now.  I have been working on some larger pieces the past couple of months and now have been concentrating on a few smaller pieces too.  I enjoy working back and forth on several paintings at once, so that as one is drying I can work on another.  I sometimes will come to a stop on a piece and let it hang for days or even months before I decide how I would like to finish it.  Here is one of my recently completed larger paintings. 

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.   

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.  

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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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.  

 

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.  

Available Paintings

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.  

Miniature Barn Painting - Bit of the Country

Bit of the Country

This is another of my miniature 4 x 6" paintings done on hardboard.  I vary my normal painting technique from painting on canvas to working on the hardboard surface.  Stretched canvas has just a little give to the surface compared to hardboard and so I find that using my brushes in a different way works better on this surface.  I also need to go down in brush size as my painting surface sizes get smaller.   I wanted the feel of distance in the painting so worked in a series of several colors and ground spaces for this piece.  This painting will easily fit right into a standard frame. 

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Recycled Barn Out My Window

Here is the view of the top of my easel, looking out the window that I paint near.  Our old barn is very lucky to still be standing.  It almost went down in a bad spring storm that we had in the area almost 22 years ago now.   It was what they term a "Microburst" instead of a tornado.  Despite what it was named, it did take down several other old barns, on farms within a few miles of us, and left our barn badly leaning, but still standing.  We found a great family business, construction company in the area, that worked on old barns.  They used a system of telephone poles and cables, to pull the barn back into position, and then adding reinforcing at key points, to keep the barn standing straight again. 

This old barn was built in the 1920's and some of the old wooden beams in it were recycled from an earlier barn.  You can see the notches in some of them that obviously don't match up with any others in the barn.  We don't know if the beams came from a previous barn on this old farmstead, or were brought in from somewhere else.    

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