This red barn piece is another of my small 5 x7″ paintings, done on a hardboard panel.  These little pieces work well as partial studies for my larger farm-scape paintings.  My work has been described as austere with minimalistic qualities to it.

I found the inspiration for this painting from an old Octagon that is still standing on a remote Midwestern back road.  I decided on rows of tall summer corn with a field of ripe golden wheat in front of it.  An overcast sky with heavy rain clouds hang in the sky above the barn.

It is another beautiful summer night here in the Heartland.  It is almost dusk and I can hear the chirping of crickets and the lightening bugs will be out soon.  This simple scene depicts my vision of a quiet farmstead on a summer day here in the country.   Big blue sky days are the ones that I love most in the summer!

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Another of my paintings of back country U.S.A.  

I most often paint traditional red barns in my farm landscapes.  My grandparents had a white barn on their farm.  A horse barn!  My grandfather grew up during the time when horse racing was a favorite pastime in many small towns across America.  He bred and raced harness horses.  Grandpa even shod his own horses!  I have such fond memories of visiting my Grandparents on their farm.  A white barn makes me think of them.

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I love traveling along the back roads of America.  One never knows what they will find over the next ridge or beyond the tall fields of summer corn.  The idea for this painting came to me while driving between two car ferries, in rural Calhoon county IL, on the way to Pierre Marquette State Park.  The scene is from my imagination and is done in acrylic paint on a hardboard panel.

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Fence-posts by the Old Red Barn

I decided on one of those beautiful “Blue Sky Days” found here in the Midwest at this time of year, for this new painting.  I just finished this piece today, so one might say that it is still “hot of the easel”, so to speak!   I love painting simple scenes of the American Heartland, and hope that you will enjoy viewing my original work.

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This is one of my small series of paintings done on gesso over hardboard.  This piece sold before I had time to list it here on my site blog.  I hope that you will enjoy viewing my original paintings!

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I always want to slow down to catch a better glimpse of an old brick house in the country.  This painting was inspired from a very old home that I saw on a recent trip to St. Charles, MO.  Since I love living in the country, I paint simple scenes of it.  I hope that you will enjoy viewing my original art work!

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Since I was a kid I have always loved the country and antiques.  The county fairs here in the Midwest have interesting displays of antique tractors to walk through and enjoy.  For this painting I decided on a simple old farmstead scene with a historic John Deere tractor in it.  I painted one of my blue skies with those “cotton puff” clouds on summer for this piece.  It measures 16 x 12 and is done on stretched canvas in acrylic paint.