Red Barn, Yellow Sky
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.
Summer in the Heartland
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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Green Roof on the Old White Barn
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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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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The Old John Deere Tractor
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.
Behind the Field of Wheat
A ripe field of winter wheat is the foreground for this simple barn and shed scene. I decided on one of my “blue sky days” for the sky area of this painting.
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Red Barn Under a Yellow Sky
Yellow, red and green. I find them such a warm and cheerful color combination. I painted a simple red barn with three old fence posts near it in this country scene.
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Part of Kishwaukee College Permanent Collection.
Young rows of soybeans in the field with a traditional red barn and sheds beyond, is what I decided on for this early summer scene here in the Heartland. The new rows of corn and beans coming up is always a welcome site, especially after a long winter!
A Blue Sky Day
This original red barn painting is done in acrylic paint on a 16 x 20″ stretched canvas. The barn sits behind my minimal, abstracted field rows.
I work from very small to large for my original paintings of the Midwestern Heartland. This tiny painting measure 7 x 5″ and is done on hardboard.
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