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RIVERS,
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WILSON LAKE
Location: Wilson
Lake, Wyoming
Date Painted: July 4, 2008
Size: 10 X 8
inches
Medium: Oil on Pintura Canvas Panel
Price: $260
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About This Piece,
This
painting began during mid-April 2008 as a
preliminary study in Victor Idaho, and it fairly
represents the scenery from around the Teton
areas of Idaho and Wyoming.
Following my return home to Lebanon, Illinois, I
continued to work on the painting in my studio
using memory and the preliminary study done in
Idaho as my guide for composition and color.
This painting is the finished result.
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MERAMEC RIVER -
UPSTREAM FROM THE BLUFFS
Location: Castlewood State Park,
Missouri
Date Painted: December, 2002
Size: 10 X 8 inches
Medium: Oil on Stretched Canvas
Price: $250
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About This Piece,
During the early winter of 2002, I did a series
of plein air paintings of the Meramec River
Valley from vantage points on the limestone
bluffs in Castlewood State Park, Missouri. This
version looks upstream toward central Missouri.
It was easy to imagine Indians traveling this
convenient waterway in their birch bark canoes,
and I am told it was used by fur trappers as
they ventured inland for beaver along the many
tributary streams that make up the Meramec River |
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ROCK FALLS OF THE
OZARKS
Location: Alley Springs, Missouri
Date Painted: May 23,
2003
Size: 20 X 16 inches
Medium: Oil on Stretched
Canvas
Price: $800
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About This Piece,
This painting is based upon a
series of photographs taken by my
son, Shawn one evening in March
2001 while on a weekend painting
trip with some fellow plein air
painters. This unusual rock
formation has a natural pink
cast, which was warmed to deep
shades of red and orange as the
sun began to set. Rock Falls is
located on a spring-fed tributary
of the Montauk River near Alley
Springs, Missouri and as such is
protected under the Federally
designated system of wild and
scenic rivers. |
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CATTAIL POND
Location: Forest Park, St. Louis
Date Painted: November 16, 2008
Size: 20 X 16 inches
Medium: Oil on Pintura Canvas Panel
Price: $800
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About This Piece,
I painted this scene in St. Louis Forest Park at
a pond located near the ice skating rink. The
area is relatively remote and it features
walking and biking trails that wind through a
series of springs and ponds with secluded spots
for observation of wildlife. This area appears
to be one of the headwater sources for the River
DesPeres. Over the years, massive old trees have
fallen and have been left in place to provide
natural habitat. While painting this reed-filled
cattail pond, I observed several species of
ducks and marsh land birds swimming about in
search of food. |
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SPRING RUN-OFF
Location: Ballwin, Misssouri
Date Painted:
April 17, 2005
Size: 8 X 10 inches
Medium: Oil on Pintura Canvas Panel
Price: $250
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About This Piece,
A group of plein air artists had
gathered at Castlewood State
Park, near Ballwin, Missouri to
paint the spring run-off on this
tributary of the Mermac River. I
waded upstream until I found this
suitable spot for painting. As an
interesting sidelight, while I
was painting this picture, a
migration of fresh-water shrimp
began to swim up the stream like
miniature salmon. By afternoon
they were all gone, presumably
having made their way up to the
spawning grounds. |
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WATER LILIES AND
GOLD FISH
Location: Tower Grove Park
Date Painted: August 20, 2006
Size: 10 X 8 inches
Medium: Oil on Pintura Canvas
Panel
Price: $260
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About This Piece,
I painted these white water lilies at one of the
many ponds in Tower Grove Park, St. Louis. These
ponds are not large, but they provide an
abundance of lilies in many shades of color from
white to yellow, red and blue. The graceful
leaves present a variety of shapes patterns
shadows and tones. Their colors range from
celery to bluish green and even red and purple.
Minnows and gold fish swam about beneath these
sheltering leaves in search of food. |
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SNOW BOUND RIVER
Location: Victor, Idaho
Date Painted: April 20, 2008
Size: 10X 8
inches
Medium: Oil on Pintura Canvas Panel
Price: $260
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About This Piece,
I painted a preliminary sketch of this scene
from a bridge on the Teton River in Victor,
Idaho during mid-April, 2008. Spring was late
and it snowed almost every day during my
week-long stay, but on this particular
afternoon, we received some welcome sunshine.
After returning home to Illinois, I resumed work
on the painting, quickly, bringing
it forward to this finished image. |
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WHITE WATER
LILIES
Location: Tower Grove Park
Date Painted:
May 10, 2005
Size: 16 X 20 inches
Medium: Oil on Pintura Canvas Panel
Price: $800
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About This Piece,
I painted these water lilies at
one of the several ponds in Tower
Grove Park, St. Louis. It was
done in the afternoon and as the
day warmed up, I was obliged to
seek shade beneath surrounding
trees. These ponds are not large,
but they provide an abundance of
water lilies in many shades of
color from white and yellow to
red and blue. The leaves come in
a variety of shapes and colors,
and they provide shelter and
forage for gold fish living in
these ponds.
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SUNSET ALONG A
COUNTRY ROAD
Location: Clarksville, Missouri
Date Painted: May
26, 2002
Size:16 X 20
inches
Medium: Oil on Pintura Canvas
Panel
Price: $800
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About This Piece,
I painted this picture during a
weekend paint out in Clarksville,
Missouri. While painting this
scene the sky turned from blue
and yellow to orange crimson,
green and violet. It was a
spectacular sunset, but fleeting
in time so I had to work quickly
with broad strokes and lots of
paint. While I painted, my wife
Lynn, made friends with a herd of
curious black cows at the fence
behind us. They seemed
interested, and made cow noises
that I took to be approving of my
efforts.
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BEAVER DAM
Location: Castlewood State Park, MO.
Date Painted: February
19, 2003
Size: 24 X 12
inches
Medium: Oil on Pintura Canvas Panel
Price: $700
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About This Piece,
Surprising as it might seem in an
area surrounded by highways and
housing subdivisions, a family of
beavers selected this small
stream in Castlewood State Park
to build their dam and beaver
lodges. As I painted this
picture, I noted that all of the
trees within some distance of the
dam had been gnawed down and
dragged to the steam. These
clever little
“engineers” had
constructed an amazing dam and
had created a sizeable lake for
their habitat. |
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