I painted this from a photograph taken by a friend, one of my more recent works…from last summer. Apparently the photo called me to paint it since I love doing impressionist technique painting. This is oil on linen and I believe 12×14.
Art
The Wheat Harvest
Pieter Breughel the Elder, inspired me with his painting “The Wheat Harvest”…probably because we had an exceptional wet winter and the summer hillsides as they dried into summer had a beautiful golden color, which I saw, Breughel the Elder had in this painting. After some research I found out Breughel was the first painter to paint regular people working and playing instead of the usual stogy religious or wealthy persons… Breughel may have changed and van guarded how artists painted and selected their subject matter.
Breughel’s Wheat Harvest really inspired me to emulate his painting best I could. I used an 18×24 canvas which was already prepared and primed in white flake, (which is very toxic for those who work with it, when wet, though I only painted on top of it dry) I have never used paint with white flake. I must say it was an interesting surface to work on, very smooth and white flake really accepted the brush strokes with pleasure.
You can see the original “Wheat Harvest” on many links, but I found this one from Penn State to be interesting; http://www.engr.psu.edu/mtah/articles/wheat_harvest.htm
Here is my rendition of Piter Breughel the Elders “Wheat Harvest”
Fall Redwoods
Okay…backing off of politics for a much more pleasant part of existence…art.
I painted this redwood painting several years ago, it was painted from a photograph taken during the fall. Fall and spring provide those long casting shadows which provide a pleasant beautiful setting for the eyes. This is oil on canvas, 18×24.
A red rose is a rose
I painted this rose from a photograph which I took awhile back, it came out quite nice. Actually I painted this in order to practice dry brushing technique. Every time I learn a new thing in art it becomes another tool I can use when facing different challenges or even to have more fun in my painting.
Oil on canvas, 18×24
Ps: I am not crazy about the red background… but what the hey!
Summer Redwoods
This is my second or third oil of Coast Redwoods, for a time I worked in the redwoods so I felt a bonding with them. I call this “summer redwoods” to separate from my fall painting. Fall is a much better time to take photos of redwoods because of the longer shadows, even so I am happy with the summer painting. This is oil on canvas, 24×30.
Picket Fence
Well, I used the “New Post” at the top of my blog and from what I can tell nothing worked? Live and learn comes to mind.
Picket Fence was a lot of fun doing, …of course I used a pallet knife for the pickets. This was from one of my photos taken during my travels, a simple composition. One person told me I should have placed a gate in the painting? I told them the gate is to the right out of the picture. 
Late Spring Snow
oil on canvas, 24×30
Okay, This is an oil painting done using impressionist technique, one of my favorites. We had a late spring snow, which is rare around here, so I took several photographs and this one was my favorite to paint. Sorry for the small size, I suspect when I took this photo, my camera was set for a smaller pixel?
Trillum
SOLD
Redwood forest flora
I was told the flower in the middle was called trillium, hope it is correct. Several years back, I had the opportunity to visit a redwood forest, I was intrigued by the ground flora and moss, so I photographed it and painted it. Painting moss was a challenge, but I feel I did justice to the moss. I may do this one again for the challenge of it. This painting was oil, on canvas, 16×20. I sold it awhile back. Sorry for the small example, I need to dig around for slightly larger one.
By popular request, I dug around and figured out how to provide a larger example of “Trullum”, enjoy.
Reeds on the River
As so many artists have done before me… rising in the wee hours of the morning and packing tons of their art supplies to be on location… just to be there for the first rays of the sun, to capture those perfect shadows and the ever so evasive blue morning tint. Packing hot coffee, watercolors, bushes, easel and a never warm enough cold weather parka, always a very long hike to a vantage point on top of the highest hill… only to find out they forgot the water.
Mixed Media on full sheet
This abstract is called “Reeds on the River” it is mixed media on a full sheet.
Ps: Actually I do most of my work in studio.
Alleyway
I prefer to take photographs which inspire me, mostly to paint, this is one time where I stopped the truck and pissed off someone in a truck behind me, (it was in an alleyway) I took only one photograph which I knew at the time I would paint. The challenge of painting structures is always fun. This is done in mixed media… as I recall 18 X 24 inches on canvas. 
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