18×14 oil on linen panel
This was painted on a dirt road outside of Grand Marais, Minnesota. I pulled off the road and sat above this lovely creek. This became more of an impression of the patterns and waves I saw in this lovely spot.
I had just registered for the Waukesha, WI plein air competition and walked to my car to drive off and find something to paint. Before getting in the car I turned and saw this door across the street. No drive was needed!
16×12 oil on canvas panel
This was painted at a YMCA camp in Northern Minnesota. It was cool in the woods, and I wanted to capture this sense of coolness and serenity by emphasizing the blues.
16x12 oil
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!
18×14 oil on canvas panel
Painted near Grand Marais, MN. This grove of birch trees was on the road to the Hungry Hippie Hostel, where I was staying during the plein air event. I loved how it glowed in the afternoon sun!
14×18 oil on canvas panel
This was painted in Northern Minnesota, almost on the Canadian border. I was on a dock looking down at the plants floating in and on the water. I found the patterns that formed made a nice composition.
14×18 oil on canvas panel.
Painted in Port Washington, WI, during the 2023 Paint Cedarburg event. The wind was so fierce that I had to lash my tripod and palette to a railing. It was also very cold, which sent me home. I returned the next day hoping the boats would still be there. They were!
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…
2ox16 oil on canvas panel
I had painted this scene the year before near Jefferson, WI. I wanted to revisit this place and try a new take on it.
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!
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.
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!
24x12 oil
Painted in Dubuque, IA. I loved the abstract quality of the shapes and lights on this downward sloping road.
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!
oil 20z16
Painted during the 2022 Waukesha, WI plein air competition.
PBG
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!
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!
20x16, oil
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.
14x18, oil
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!
18x14, oil PB
Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” plein air event in New Harmony, IN
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!
Painted at Plum Bottom Gallery and available at www.plumbottomgallery.com
18x14, oil
Painted during the 2019 New Berlin (WI) Plein Air Competition.
20x10, oil
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.
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.
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)!
14x11, oil
The old fire house-painted during the Cedarburg Plein Air Competition, 2018.
9x12, oil
Painted during an outdoor concert in Jefferson, Wisconsin as part of the Jefferson Plein Air Competition, 2018.
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!
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.
16x12, oil
Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” in New Harmony, IN on the Wabash River.
11x14, oil
Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” plein air event in New Harmony, IN
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!
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.
