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.

Life is but a Dream ...

20 x 20 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

"These two canoers were captured in the background of a photograph I took of my children playing on the riverbank.  I was struck by their paddling in unison  .......... gently down the stream."



Going Home

12 x 32 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

I did this painting as a tribute to my Grandma Marion while she was passing on.  She always seemed like a work horse to me...

Dreamscapes - Spring Fields

32 x 40 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

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

Winter Majic

32 x 40 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

Viva had a "Black, White and Shades of Grey" show last January. This blue one got away from the theme... oh well, I love it. It shows how I feel about Wisconsin winters!!

"Black & White and Shades of Grey" show at VIVA

12 x 12 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

 A local gallery called VIVA! I belong to in Viroqua, Wisconsin had a Black and White show this last January and this duo is what I came up with.

Early Pinecones

12 x 12 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

A fun quick paint done in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

Featured artist in the Red Wing Plein air Event

20x20 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

20x20 oil on gallery wrapped canvas

14x14 Quick paint-oil on gallery wrapped canvas

14x14  oil on gallery wrapped canvas-available

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Hanging in the Depot Gallery until the end of August

Beloit Paintout with Lydia

I like to take a photo of what I am painting for my records.

16x20 oil on gallery wrapped canvas -available for sale

Lydia and Tinkerbell

16x20 oil on Gallery wrapped canvas- sold

Lydia's finished paintings

Lydia took a photo of her subjects too.

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...

Beloit paintings

I came across these older paintings while organizing my emails.  Apparently, I didn't have my camera ready and my fellow painting friend did.  I almost forgot about these because they sold right away.

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.

Mapledale Trees

2) 16 x 40 Oil on gallery wrapped canvas

This scene is a few miles down the road from where I live and this larger and more colorful painting was inspired by a small watercolor I painted on location there a few years ago.  

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

Autumn Sky

available for sale -framed watercolor 12x18

I rented a new studio yesterday four blocks from my house. My life is too messy to work from home - too many distractions. I can't wait to get busy there!

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.

Sunlit Sailboats

sold 8x10 -Door County plein air event

Three of my art group members went up to the Door County plein air paintout. Kathie Wheeler went for the whole week as a featured artist, and Carla Christ and I went for the Saturday Quick paint that was open for anyone who wanted to compete. I had 2 hours to capture these boats in the Fish Creek Harbor waiting to go for a sail. The whole atmosphere is festive and somewhat intense with 80 artists painting in a small designated area and hundreds of onlookers watching. I love it!

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.