Fly Fishing Art,

Trout Stream, Late Afternoon, 12x16 oil         (SOLD)

This painting is finally finished, it took two years of working on it, putting it away for a while then bringing it out again and seeing things that needed changing, now I'm happy with it.

Early morning practice

I painted this at sunrise before heading in to work at 7:00. I'm fortunate, this park is only 5 minutes from work so getting some early morning practice in is easy. On this morning I had 25 minutes to get something down, sunrise was at 6:21.  The night before I saw we were going to have clouds in the sky at sunrise so I wanted to be there to try to capture the drama in the sky. When I got home from work I cleaned up the painting.

Sunrise Falls Twp. Park, 6"x8"  oil

I'm going to try a bigger painting using this as a guide but I was thinking of a larger area of subdued sky reflection in the water and maybe put in a figure walking their dog along the shoreline.

Recent snow paintings

A Stand of Pines,  8x10, oil on canvas

I pass these pine trees on my way to the park, the road they are on has no area to pull over so I had to get a shot on my phone as I passed by on the way home. I was attracted to the contrast of the bright clouds and snow against the darks of the pine trees. The hard part was trying to make the pines look like a group without overdoing it.

Farmhouse and Fields 6"x8" acrylic on wood panel

I like the peaceful feeling of this painting, a subdued winter sunset and a warm fire in the fireplace.