Fire in the Night
Fire in the Night

oil 18x14

This was painted during the 2023 Brushstrokes competition in Dubuque IA. It’s a gas pipe which I had seen during the day. When I went back that night I was glad the gas was still on and on fire!

Port Washington Tall
Port Washington Tall

oil 18x14

A Park Place
A Park Place

16x12 oil

Painted in a park near Mahtomedi, MN while I stayed at my son’s apartment watching his cats, as he was on a trip to China! I needed something to do…

Birchlight
Birchlight

oil 16x12

This was painted outside Plum Bottom Gallery in Door County, WI. Since I didn’t make my own shade by putting my umbrella up, this work fell prey to the dreaded painting in light phenomenom, a too dark painting! So…it was touched up in the studio!

The Road to Higher Ground
The Road to Higher Ground

oil 20x16

Painted during the 2023 “Paint the Point” plein air competition in Mineral Point, WI. It was during the hazy days due to Canadian wildfires, and the whole atmosphere was an eerie orangish white. I tried to evoke the feeling of otherworldliness this gave me.

In the Abstract
In the Abstract

16x20 oil

Painted in Augusta, Missouri on my birthday. It was a miserable day, cold and windy. I could barely keep my easel up, and certainly no umbrella! I tried to evoke that weather while looking at this beautiful valley.

Tangled
Tangled

oil 12x16

This was painted outside Plum Bottom Gallery in Door County, WI. I loved the tangled mess of the wild grape vines along with the early autumn color!

Mississippi Mist
Mississippi Mist

oil on canvas 14x18

This was painted during the 2023 Bluff Strokes plein air competition held in Dubuque, IA. I was painting near Sinsinawa, a Dominican retreat center located in Wisconsin just east of the Mississippi River. It was early morning and mist was rising from the river in the humid air.

Hangin' Out
Hangin' Out

oil 18x14

Painted in Port Washington, WI. I wanted to challenge myself by painting boats. Boy, was it a challenge! Not because of the subject, but because the weather was cold and extremely windy! I had to batten down my hatches!

My Compliments
My Compliments

18x14 oil

Painted in Augusta, MO. I love the bright yellow of this building, which is an art gallery. The title refers to the fact that yellow and purple are complimentary colors!

Havin’ the Blues
Havin’ the Blues

14x18 oil

Painted in Augusta, MO. How could I not paint this beautiful blue barn? It looked so striking! Later, I found out that it has been a popular subject for others to paint, for years! I know why!

Spring Circle
Spring Circle

14x18 oil

Painted in Augusta, MO. The just budded leaves were sparkling against the sky. I wanted to convey this sparkly view. As I looked at the patterns made by the leaves and branches, I noticed they formed a kind of circle. I may have exaggerated that a bit!

Down by Rush
Down by Rush

24x12 oil

Painted in Dubuque, IA. I loved the abstract quality of the shapes and lights on this downward sloping road.

Dream Forest
Dream Forest

20x16, oil PB

Painted during the “Paint Grand Marais” event in Northern MN. The weather in northern Minnesota in September is very unpredictible! During this week, though, there was only one terribly rainy day, and I didn’t let it stop me from painting! This is a view from under the canopy of my camper in the state forest where I stayed. Never let a little (or a lot) of rain deter you!

Grand Falls
Grand Falls

16x12 oil PB

Painted during the “Paint Grand Marais” event in northern MN. It was a half-mile hike to these falls. Well, 1/2 mile to set up, 1/2 mile back to get my forgotten phone, 1/2 mile hike in again, then a 1/2 back trip when I was finished. Well worth 2 miles of hiking!

On the Rocks
On the Rocks

14x18 oil PB

Painted during the “Paint Grand Marais” event in northern MN. Can you tell that I was sitting precariously on the jagged rocks with all my “hatches” battened down? Lake Superior in September-well worth the travails!

The First of Fall
The First of Fall

oil 20z16

Painted during the 2022 Waukesha, WI plein air competition.

PBG

Sleeping Giant
Sleeping Giant

14x18, oil

Winner of Best Nocturne in the 2022 Waukesha, WI plein air competition.

I used to have my studio in Waukesha, and this quarry facility is on the road which I would drive to get there. I swore I would paint it some day. Though I no longer have that studio, the Waukesha competition gave me the perfect excuse to paint it! As usual, I finished up around 11:30 pm, cold but feeling accomplished!

No Commerce
No Commerce

14x18, oil

Painted behind Commerce Street in Mineral Point WI. There was a car parked next to the building. A woman stopped by and we chatted. She told me it was her car and she would move it. The next day, at the show, another woman told me it was her building, and another woman told me it was her sister’s building. You always hope for a sale at these events and I thought this one was in the bag! It can be yours…

Quarry Rain
Quarry Rain

16x12, oil

This view of Quarry Lake in Harrington Beach State Park was painted on a dreary and rainy day. I managed to almost avoid the rain but wanted to give a sense of the dampness this day was dishing out!

Blue Doors
Blue Doors

11x14, oil

This was the “Quick Paint” for the “Paint the Point” event in Mineral Point, WI. We had 2 hours to paint and turn in a framed piece. I’ve painted this slightly run-down building before as I really like the shape of it and the lovely blue doors.

Cascades: Cedar Creek
Cascades: Cedar Creek

14x18, oil

This was painted during the 2022 Cedarburg plein air competition. Most artists paint this part of the creek looking the other way. I like to go against the “flow” and looked in the opposite direction because I loved how the water cascaded over the rocks!

The Road To…
The Road To…

24x12, oil

The weather in Jefferson, WI was either super hot or windy and rainy that week. Guess on which kind of day this was painted! Only a die-hard would set up in the grass next to an asphalt road in temperatures heading toward 90 degrees!

Spring Sparkles
Spring Sparkles

20x16, oil PB

Painted during the 2022 “First Brush of Spring” plein air event in New Harmony, IN. I was enchanted by the way the trees looked in the early spring, with sparkles of light glimpsed through the half budded trees.

The Squall
The Squall

11x14, oil

This was painted on a super windy day in Jefferson, WI. It was so windy that I had to keep my easel close to the ground for fear that everything would blow away. Did I catch that feeling?

Windswept
Windswept

14x18, oil PB

Painted on yet another rainy and windswept day! This time in Plymouth, WI. I won’t say I even tried to paint this scene without windy brushstrokes-it was impossible!

A "Grand" Day
A "Grand" Day

18x14, oil

3rd Place Award in the Waukesha Plein Air Competition, 2021

I don’t usually paint architecture but this day I wanted to challenge myself! Downtown Waukesha, WI is filled with beautiful old buildings and this one appeled to me because of the interesting cupola.

Yellow
Yellow

18x14, oil

This nocturne was painted next to a garbage bin behind a restaurant in Mineral Point, WI. It was finished around midnight. I didn’t mind though, as the yellow umbrellas really caught my eye! Ah, the life of a plein air artist!

Spring Harmony
Spring Harmony

18x14, oil PB

Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” plein air event in New Harmony, IN

Dodging the Light
Dodging the Light

16x12, oil

Painted at Governor Dodge State Park, WI. On a hot and sunny day, I always try to find a spot in the shade so that I don’t burn up. I found this shady nook in the state park with the perfect view, and with the aid of my battered hat I turned out only slightly pink!

Plum Bottom Fountain
Plum Bottom Fountain

Painted at Plum Bottom Gallery and available at www.plumbottomgallery.com

Into the Light
Into the Light

18x14, oil PB

Painted during the 2019 New Berlin (WI) Plein Air Competition.

Fall Comes to the Fox
Fall Comes to the Fox

20x10, oil PB

The colorful leaves and the lovely Fox River in Waukesha were a challenge to paint, as to get this view I had to scrunch up in a corner of a fenced-in area under a hot Autumn sky. Painted during the 2021 Waukesha Plein Air Competition.

Coffee Creeper
Coffee Creeper

12x9, oil

The wall behind Fiddleheads coffee shop, painted during the Cedarburg Plein Air Competition. 2018. Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence from the Wauwatosa Artists Workshop exhibit at the Cedarburg Cultural Center, 2021.

Glory Rests
Glory Rests

9x12, oil

A colorfully painted row boat, painted during the Plymouth Plein Air Competition, 2018.

Day is Done
Day is Done

12x24, oil

Painted during the 2019 New Berlin Plein Air Competition. I love sunsets so much that sometimes I practically leave out the landscape altogether! Here, I was on a hill overlooking an orchard with apples and plums (but you’d never know it)!

Two Glories
Two Glories

14x11, oil

The old fire house-painted during the Cedarburg Plein Air Competition, 2018.

Summer Show
Summer Show

9x12, oil PB

Painted during an outdoor concert in Jefferson, Wisconsin as part of the Jefferson Plein Air Competition, 2018.

Red's Place
Red's Place

11x14, oil

This was the “Quick Paint” during a Jefferson, WI plein air competition. The color of this restaurant, light, and shadows just had to be painted-and they were-in less than 2 1/2 hours!

Nightime Crossing
Nightime Crossing

12x12, oil

Painted during the 2018 Jefferson Plein Air Competition. This is an iconic pedestrian bridge in Jefferson. I loved the way it looked at night with its slightly odd curves lit up at night.

Wabash Lane
Wabash Lane

16x12, oil PB

Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” in New Harmony, IN on the Wabash River.

Dandelions
Dandelions

11x14, oil PB

Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” plein air event in New Harmony, IN

Before the Storm
Before the Storm

18x14, oil

It really was before the storm! Painted in Waukesha, WI it started to drizzle but with my 2 umbrellas I could still paint. Then it really exploded! I managed to run the painting to the car, but all my gear and me got drenched. All needed to dry out overnight but the painting survived!

Shelby's Barn
Shelby's Barn

14x11, oil

Painted during a plein air workshop given by artist Shelby Keefe. One of my first plein air paintings!

Neighbors
Neighbors

oil 18x14

This was the “Quick Paint” for the 2022 Bluff Strokes competition in Dubuque, IA. It was painted in 2 hours, and shows two of the many church steeples in this beautiful old river town.

Driftless
Driftless

14x18 oil

Painted during the 2023 “Paint the Point” event in Mineral Point, WI. This area is in the middle of the “driftless” area of Wisconsin, which means the glaciers didn’t come through, leaving rolling hills and deep valleys.

Fire in the Night
Port Washington Tall
A Park Place
Birchlight
The Road to Higher Ground
In the Abstract
Tangled
Mississippi Mist
Hangin' Out
My Compliments
Havin’ the Blues
Spring Circle
Down by Rush
Dream Forest
Grand Falls
On the Rocks
The First of Fall
Sleeping Giant
No Commerce
Quarry Rain
Blue Doors
Cascades: Cedar Creek
The Road To…
Spring Sparkles
The Squall
Windswept
A "Grand" Day
Yellow
Spring Harmony
Dodging the Light
Plum Bottom Fountain
Into the Light
Fall Comes to the Fox
Coffee Creeper
Glory Rests
Day is Done
Two Glories
Summer Show
Red's Place
Nightime Crossing
Wabash Lane
Dandelions
Before the Storm
Shelby's Barn
Neighbors
Driftless
Fire in the Night

oil 18x14

This was painted during the 2023 Brushstrokes competition in Dubuque IA. It’s a gas pipe which I had seen during the day. When I went back that night I was glad the gas was still on and on fire!

Port Washington Tall

oil 18x14

A Park Place

16x12 oil

Painted in a park near Mahtomedi, MN while I stayed at my son’s apartment watching his cats, as he was on a trip to China! I needed something to do…

Birchlight

oil 16x12

This was painted outside Plum Bottom Gallery in Door County, WI. Since I didn’t make my own shade by putting my umbrella up, this work fell prey to the dreaded painting in light phenomenom, a too dark painting! So…it was touched up in the studio!

The Road to Higher Ground

oil 20x16

Painted during the 2023 “Paint the Point” plein air competition in Mineral Point, WI. It was during the hazy days due to Canadian wildfires, and the whole atmosphere was an eerie orangish white. I tried to evoke the feeling of otherworldliness this gave me.

In the Abstract

16x20 oil

Painted in Augusta, Missouri on my birthday. It was a miserable day, cold and windy. I could barely keep my easel up, and certainly no umbrella! I tried to evoke that weather while looking at this beautiful valley.

Tangled

oil 12x16

This was painted outside Plum Bottom Gallery in Door County, WI. I loved the tangled mess of the wild grape vines along with the early autumn color!

Mississippi Mist

oil on canvas 14x18

This was painted during the 2023 Bluff Strokes plein air competition held in Dubuque, IA. I was painting near Sinsinawa, a Dominican retreat center located in Wisconsin just east of the Mississippi River. It was early morning and mist was rising from the river in the humid air.

Hangin' Out

oil 18x14

Painted in Port Washington, WI. I wanted to challenge myself by painting boats. Boy, was it a challenge! Not because of the subject, but because the weather was cold and extremely windy! I had to batten down my hatches!

My Compliments

18x14 oil

Painted in Augusta, MO. I love the bright yellow of this building, which is an art gallery. The title refers to the fact that yellow and purple are complimentary colors!

Havin’ the Blues

14x18 oil

Painted in Augusta, MO. How could I not paint this beautiful blue barn? It looked so striking! Later, I found out that it has been a popular subject for others to paint, for years! I know why!

Spring Circle

14x18 oil

Painted in Augusta, MO. The just budded leaves were sparkling against the sky. I wanted to convey this sparkly view. As I looked at the patterns made by the leaves and branches, I noticed they formed a kind of circle. I may have exaggerated that a bit!

Down by Rush

24x12 oil

Painted in Dubuque, IA. I loved the abstract quality of the shapes and lights on this downward sloping road.

Dream Forest

20x16, oil PB

Painted during the “Paint Grand Marais” event in Northern MN. The weather in northern Minnesota in September is very unpredictible! During this week, though, there was only one terribly rainy day, and I didn’t let it stop me from painting! This is a view from under the canopy of my camper in the state forest where I stayed. Never let a little (or a lot) of rain deter you!

Grand Falls

16x12 oil PB

Painted during the “Paint Grand Marais” event in northern MN. It was a half-mile hike to these falls. Well, 1/2 mile to set up, 1/2 mile back to get my forgotten phone, 1/2 mile hike in again, then a 1/2 back trip when I was finished. Well worth 2 miles of hiking!

On the Rocks

14x18 oil PB

Painted during the “Paint Grand Marais” event in northern MN. Can you tell that I was sitting precariously on the jagged rocks with all my “hatches” battened down? Lake Superior in September-well worth the travails!

The First of Fall

oil 20z16

Painted during the 2022 Waukesha, WI plein air competition.

PBG

Sleeping Giant

14x18, oil

Winner of Best Nocturne in the 2022 Waukesha, WI plein air competition.

I used to have my studio in Waukesha, and this quarry facility is on the road which I would drive to get there. I swore I would paint it some day. Though I no longer have that studio, the Waukesha competition gave me the perfect excuse to paint it! As usual, I finished up around 11:30 pm, cold but feeling accomplished!

No Commerce

14x18, oil

Painted behind Commerce Street in Mineral Point WI. There was a car parked next to the building. A woman stopped by and we chatted. She told me it was her car and she would move it. The next day, at the show, another woman told me it was her building, and another woman told me it was her sister’s building. You always hope for a sale at these events and I thought this one was in the bag! It can be yours…

Quarry Rain

16x12, oil

This view of Quarry Lake in Harrington Beach State Park was painted on a dreary and rainy day. I managed to almost avoid the rain but wanted to give a sense of the dampness this day was dishing out!

Blue Doors

11x14, oil

This was the “Quick Paint” for the “Paint the Point” event in Mineral Point, WI. We had 2 hours to paint and turn in a framed piece. I’ve painted this slightly run-down building before as I really like the shape of it and the lovely blue doors.

Cascades: Cedar Creek

14x18, oil

This was painted during the 2022 Cedarburg plein air competition. Most artists paint this part of the creek looking the other way. I like to go against the “flow” and looked in the opposite direction because I loved how the water cascaded over the rocks!

The Road To…

24x12, oil

The weather in Jefferson, WI was either super hot or windy and rainy that week. Guess on which kind of day this was painted! Only a die-hard would set up in the grass next to an asphalt road in temperatures heading toward 90 degrees!

Spring Sparkles

20x16, oil PB

Painted during the 2022 “First Brush of Spring” plein air event in New Harmony, IN. I was enchanted by the way the trees looked in the early spring, with sparkles of light glimpsed through the half budded trees.

The Squall

11x14, oil

This was painted on a super windy day in Jefferson, WI. It was so windy that I had to keep my easel close to the ground for fear that everything would blow away. Did I catch that feeling?

Windswept

14x18, oil PB

Painted on yet another rainy and windswept day! This time in Plymouth, WI. I won’t say I even tried to paint this scene without windy brushstrokes-it was impossible!

A "Grand" Day

18x14, oil

3rd Place Award in the Waukesha Plein Air Competition, 2021

I don’t usually paint architecture but this day I wanted to challenge myself! Downtown Waukesha, WI is filled with beautiful old buildings and this one appeled to me because of the interesting cupola.

Yellow

18x14, oil

This nocturne was painted next to a garbage bin behind a restaurant in Mineral Point, WI. It was finished around midnight. I didn’t mind though, as the yellow umbrellas really caught my eye! Ah, the life of a plein air artist!

Spring Harmony

18x14, oil PB

Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” plein air event in New Harmony, IN

Dodging the Light

16x12, oil

Painted at Governor Dodge State Park, WI. On a hot and sunny day, I always try to find a spot in the shade so that I don’t burn up. I found this shady nook in the state park with the perfect view, and with the aid of my battered hat I turned out only slightly pink!

Plum Bottom Fountain

Painted at Plum Bottom Gallery and available at www.plumbottomgallery.com

Into the Light

18x14, oil PB

Painted during the 2019 New Berlin (WI) Plein Air Competition.

Fall Comes to the Fox

20x10, oil PB

The colorful leaves and the lovely Fox River in Waukesha were a challenge to paint, as to get this view I had to scrunch up in a corner of a fenced-in area under a hot Autumn sky. Painted during the 2021 Waukesha Plein Air Competition.

Coffee Creeper

12x9, oil

The wall behind Fiddleheads coffee shop, painted during the Cedarburg Plein Air Competition. 2018. Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence from the Wauwatosa Artists Workshop exhibit at the Cedarburg Cultural Center, 2021.

Glory Rests

9x12, oil

A colorfully painted row boat, painted during the Plymouth Plein Air Competition, 2018.

Day is Done

12x24, oil

Painted during the 2019 New Berlin Plein Air Competition. I love sunsets so much that sometimes I practically leave out the landscape altogether! Here, I was on a hill overlooking an orchard with apples and plums (but you’d never know it)!

Two Glories

14x11, oil

The old fire house-painted during the Cedarburg Plein Air Competition, 2018.

Summer Show

9x12, oil PB

Painted during an outdoor concert in Jefferson, Wisconsin as part of the Jefferson Plein Air Competition, 2018.

Red's Place

11x14, oil

This was the “Quick Paint” during a Jefferson, WI plein air competition. The color of this restaurant, light, and shadows just had to be painted-and they were-in less than 2 1/2 hours!

Nightime Crossing

12x12, oil

Painted during the 2018 Jefferson Plein Air Competition. This is an iconic pedestrian bridge in Jefferson. I loved the way it looked at night with its slightly odd curves lit up at night.

Wabash Lane

16x12, oil PB

Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” in New Harmony, IN on the Wabash River.

Dandelions

11x14, oil PB

Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” plein air event in New Harmony, IN

Before the Storm

18x14, oil

It really was before the storm! Painted in Waukesha, WI it started to drizzle but with my 2 umbrellas I could still paint. Then it really exploded! I managed to run the painting to the car, but all my gear and me got drenched. All needed to dry out overnight but the painting survived!

Shelby's Barn

14x11, oil

Painted during a plein air workshop given by artist Shelby Keefe. One of my first plein air paintings!

Neighbors

oil 18x14

This was the “Quick Paint” for the 2022 Bluff Strokes competition in Dubuque, IA. It was painted in 2 hours, and shows two of the many church steeples in this beautiful old river town.

Driftless

14x18 oil

Painted during the 2023 “Paint the Point” event in Mineral Point, WI. This area is in the middle of the “driftless” area of Wisconsin, which means the glaciers didn’t come through, leaving rolling hills and deep valleys.

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