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October 18, 2016April 25, 2018

Peeling Away the Layers with Practice

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Choosing a frame for a painting can seem as complicated as choosing the right frame for eye glasses. 🤓 While some frames look better on your face or on a painting, there’s no one “right” frame. That’s why a lot of art is presented without a frame. But then, how can you know what a painting looks like in a frame? It’s a conundrum. I include professional picture framers among my trusted partners on my art journey.

Intermittent light rain was in the forecast the September day I set up to paint by Lake Josephine near Evansville in central Minnesota. Gray days have their own special beauty, but it was the brief moments when sunshine broke through the clouds and the wet landscape would glisten that kept me there that morning. 9X12" oil on canvas panel. Rephotographed in good light. 🤓  #landscapepainting #realiismpainting #originalpainting #pleinair #americanart #arts_realistic #paintfromlife #midwestartist #minnesotaartist #landscapeart #sunlightart #artistsoninstagram #artistslfe #availableart #evansvilleminnesota

Inspired by a day of plein air painting in Evansville, Minnesota, during the fall in 2019. I wanted this painting to create the feeling of a cool autumn day. The sun was peeking through a break in the clouds. Rain had been falling all morning and was still dripping off the umbrella that I attach to the tripod that supports my pochade box when I paint.

I’ve started work on a series of small floral paintings that will be finished March 20–the first day of spring. As background for this project, I’m studying Georgia O’Keefe’s flower paintings. O’Keefe was influenced early in her artistic career by Arthur Wesley Dow, and Dow’s practice included a lot of drawing.

I've loved trees and stories for as long as I can remember. In children's stories, trees often are magical beings that can see and sometimes even uproot themselves and walk around. The forests are nearly always enchanted. Remember the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books? And the forests of Middle Earth in JRR Tolkien's stories?

Lotus at Como has found a new home and will begin its journey to Ireland today. The summer I did this painting, I’d been attempting to paint water lilies that grow in many Minnesota lakes. And I’d become frustrated with the riotous abundance of giant leaves that often grow so dense they get all squished and pushed up against each other at odd angles, overwhelming the simple flowers. I decided to take a break from the water lilies and paint instead at Como Park in St Paul. It was a very warm July day and I didn’t know what I would paint, but there are so many beautiful gardens and views there that I felt sure I’d see something I liked. And I found these lovely lotus in full bloom in a relatively quiet area of the park.

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Choosing a frame for a painting can seem as complicated as choosing the right frame for eye glasses. 🤓 While some frames look better on your face or on a painting, there’s no one “right” frame. That’s why a lot of art is presented without a frame. But then, how can you know what a painting looks like in a frame? It’s a conundrum. I include professional picture framers among my trusted partners on my art journey.

Intermittent light rain was in the forecast the September day I set up to paint by Lake Josephine near Evansville in central Minnesota. Gray days have their own special beauty, but it was the brief moments when sunshine broke through the clouds and the wet landscape would glisten that kept me there that morning. 9X12" oil on canvas panel. Rephotographed in good light. 🤓  #landscapepainting #realiismpainting #originalpainting #pleinair #americanart #arts_realistic #paintfromlife #midwestartist #minnesotaartist #landscapeart #sunlightart #artistsoninstagram #artistslfe #availableart #evansvilleminnesota

Inspired by a day of plein air painting in Evansville, Minnesota, during the fall in 2019. I wanted this painting to create the feeling of a cool autumn day. The sun was peeking through a break in the clouds. Rain had been falling all morning and was still dripping off the umbrella that I attach to the tripod that supports my pochade box when I paint.

I’ve started work on a series of small floral paintings that will be finished March 20–the first day of spring. As background for this project, I’m studying Georgia O’Keefe’s flower paintings. O’Keefe was influenced early in her artistic career by Arthur Wesley Dow, and Dow’s practice included a lot of drawing.

I've loved trees and stories for as long as I can remember. In children's stories, trees often are magical beings that can see and sometimes even uproot themselves and walk around. The forests are nearly always enchanted. Remember the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books? And the forests of Middle Earth in JRR Tolkien's stories?

Lotus at Como has found a new home and will begin its journey to Ireland today. The summer I did this painting, I’d been attempting to paint water lilies that grow in many Minnesota lakes. And I’d become frustrated with the riotous abundance of giant leaves that often grow so dense they get all squished and pushed up against each other at odd angles, overwhelming the simple flowers. I decided to take a break from the water lilies and paint instead at Como Park in St Paul. It was a very warm July day and I didn’t know what I would paint, but there are so many beautiful gardens and views there that I felt sure I’d see something I liked. And I found these lovely lotus in full bloom in a relatively quiet area of the park.

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