Field of Blue

I just completed this little landscape earlier in the week. This barn is located in the northern part of Kansas City out near where some friends of ours live. I was quite taken by the blue wildflowers and quickly crawled out of the car to snap several pictures before meeting our friends for lunch. The pictures were taken earlier in the year of course.
This painting is planned for one of the shows I'm working on for next year, however, I'm willing to let it go if you're interested.
"Field of Blue" 11"x14" Oil/Canvas ($180 Unframed, includes S/H in USA)

Happy, Merry, Joyful

I know this isn't a normal entry for me but I couldn't resist sharing this with you. If you're a little confused about what the world is celebrating this time of year this should clear that right up for you. =^)

Give a big warm round of applause for two friends: Jaime Oppenheimer and Carter Green and have a Happy, Merry, Joyful Holiday...whatever that might be.

(Click on the picture to go to Scruffins Multimedia Blog and listen to the song.)

Skeet.

Round Bales of Hay

There's something about big round bales of hay that grab my attention when I'm traveling down the highway at 70 miles an hour...ok, maybe a little faster than that. Perhaps it's because when you live in Kansas they tend to help break up an otherwise monotonous landscape.

This post is of my most recent painting. I actually haven't done a landscape for a while so it felt good to try my hand at atmospheric perspective. Enjoy.

Summer Rolls - oil on panel 12"x24"

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Painting of St. Nicholas

I thoroughly enjoyed painting this little painting of St. Nicholas. My wife collects Father Christmas figures and she asked me to do a small painting for a wreath she was putting together for a charity auction at our church. The wreath was beautiful and my little painting added a little more spice to the mix. The sold at auction, but now she wants me to paint a couple of more, one for her, and one for you. I might just do that.

St. Nicholas, 5x5" Oil on Panel SOLD.

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Play Me A Memory

I have been working on this painting off and on for months and I finally have brought it to a finish, at least I thing so anyway. I'll put it this way, I signed it. The painting is of a friend of mine, Greg Ewing. He and I play in a old-time gospel band called Zebedee's Blunder but I wanted a painting of him playing the piano. The title comes from an old Billy Joel song "Piano Man" which came to mind about half way through the painting. I like naming paintings after songs or with a song in mind, perhaps that is an attempt to connect my paintings to the music side of me.

There was originally a lot of stuff in the background but I wanted to give the feeling of Greg playing the piano on stage. Overall I'm pretty happy with the results, that is as happy as I ever am with my paintings. It'll probably be in a few shows this year so perhaps you'll see it hanging somewhere along your life's journey.

Art Presentation - Art is about Relationships

This past Tuesday night I did a program for a group of very gracious ladies. They asked me to do a program on the arts so I gathered a few paintings together along with the little 5"x7" painting that I have included here. We did a drawing for this painting and the lady that won it was delighted. The program was basically about how art at it's basic level is about relationships. Relationships between God and man, man and man, man and the earth, etc. I then talked about relationships within the art itself which was basically dealing with composition, values, edges and color. This was the first time I have ever done a presentation on art and, although I talked way to long, they all seemed to have a good time and they were full of questions. I hope I have more opportunities to do this in the future, I had a blast. >Skeet.

Small Portrait after Sorolla

I know, everyone probably thinks I dropped off the face of the earth and has probably removed my blog from their notifier by now. I apologize, September was a crazy, crazy month. I hardly had time to pick up a brush but I'm back now and it feels good to be painting again. I have a large piece I've been working on and I'm 90% done however that last 10% is always a killer. I think that's why I love doing these small paintings because they take just a couple of hours at the most to do and for some reason I paint much looser on the small ones than I do the larger pieces. Does anyone else have that same problem? This painting is a 7x5" painting I did of Sorolla after his self-portrait. He is one of my favorite painters and I enjoyed doing this painting.

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"After Sorolla" Oil 7"x5" unframed $70 postage paid in the USA.

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