Cloud Series

Summer Haze

Spring Plowing

Pink Fields

Hobby Farm

I went camping near Cedarburg this spring and was inspired by the different clouds I saw while driving around each day.

Dreamscapes - Spring Fields

32 x 40 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

"Painting dreamy spring landscapes is what gets me through the long Wisconsin winters"

A Mother's Love



12 x 12 oil on gallery wrapped canvas
"Mother's Love was inspired by Mother's Day and my love for animals"







Backyard Garden

I started a new painting of my backyard neighbor from 1994. He was a farmer his whole life and when he sold the cows and moved to town, he treated his garden like he was still farming. His wife would bring him lemonade and they would sit under the tree and watch the garden grow. My plan is to take photos as I go to show the process, but sometimes I get caught up and forget to snap a picture until I am finished.

Almost everything 'not green' is done. The rest will be a trick to keep separate...

Purple Fields

20x20 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

I was thinking about the color purple and came up with this Wisconsin scene.

White Wind

16x20 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

I am having fun with scratching back into the paint and glazing over acrylic.  Here is another version of the Pink Sky painting.

Pink Sky

8x10 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

A semi abstract farm scene, focusing on color and texture.

Color and Texture

My sister the banker, has a new office and needed her favorite colors on the walls.

30x40 Acrylic and Oil on canvas. NFS

3-8x10 Acrylic and Oil on canvas.  NFS

Paintings for sale at the Viroqua Food Coop

I have 8 of my latest oil landscape paintings for sale at the Viroqua Food Coop for the month of August. There are 6 shown here and the originals show much better than these photos! I am grateful for the chance to share with my hometown what I have been up to since the closure of Art Vision.

Little red chickencoop

available for sale 8x10 oil on panel $75 unframed $175 framed My painting group and I met way out in the country at the end of a dead-end gravel road. This charming group of buildings and hay field really struck me as "farm scene." I love it when we find a beautiful out of the way place to paint.

Covered bridge road

available for sale 9x12 oil on panel $175 framed $100 unframed - Cedarburg plein air event I needed a break from people and the heat so I drove around and found this nice scene. There was a shade tree in just the right spot so the next morning I got up early and was done by 8:30.

Brown Swiss headquarters

available for sale 9x12 oil on panel $200 framed $100 unframed When I was driving around Beloit, looking for places to paint, this building caught my eye because it looked like an old boathouse from my childhood at my Grandparents cabin. Getting to the edge of the river to paint this painting took me through a maze of warehouses and no trespassing signs. I found an employee at the Box Company to ask permission to paint this scene. When I was done, everyone had gone home and there was a huge metal gate across the exit. My Mother would have fainted if she knew I was in an industrial park by myself at 8:00 at night. The gate opened as I approached, as the employee had promised, and I was really, really glad it did. This painting can be purchased at the Villager Art Gallery in Beloit until the end of July. 608-365-6007

Blooming together

watercolor 13x17 -sold
For today, here is a watercolor I painted on an Amish farm I call "Fannies". In the pond there are 2 enormous orange goldfish that surface often. I found the two blooming trees charming, as if they were an old married couple who sits atop the hill and have seen many seasons together.

Windy Barn - McClurg Rd

available
My Plein air group all painted this barn from a different angle. We battled the wind the whole time and my aluminum easle blew over three times before I got enough weight on it.

Autumn Hideaway - Gardner Rd

$450 sold

Watercolor and Pastel

image 10.5 X 11

frame 21.5 X 22.5

double matted,

Museum glass & frame

Wednesday with the group- we were on the top of a ridge on a beautiful clear day. Behind me was a tiny strawbale house, no bigger than a garden shed, that a young family of four lived together in all winter. I kept trying to imagine how that might be possible and keep your sanity.

I like how this farm scene is tucked into the trees and hills.