Fresh Off the Easel & Showings

Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas over Board

8 × 10 inch

Price: SOLD

This painting sold immediately after I finished it. I have placed it under Fresh Off the Easel even though it is sold because it is a new painting.

Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas over Board

16 × 20 inch

Price: $1225

Story Behind the Painting: This painting was inspired by the beautiful streams in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. What first drew me to this particular stream was the fallen trees stretched across the water, forming a small dam that the current had to work its way through. The logs could not stop the water from its course. As I stood there, I could hear a variety of sounds from nature surrounding me, but it was the sound of the stream that drew them together into a cohesive melody—pleasant, soothing, and comforting. Even though the logs first drew me, it was the sounds that kept me. I wanted to capture that same musical ambiance in my painting—the melody I had experienced sitting there by the stream.

Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas over Board

36 x 48 inch

Price: $6000 (Framed)

Available at the Salina Art Center, Salina, KS (salinaartcenter.org 785-827-1431)

Story Behind the Painting: When I first saw these shadows across this open area, they seemed to tell a story, but I didn't know what story they were telling. All I knew was that the shadows were not dark or overwhelming in any way because light shone between them. It seemed like it was okay to be engulfed with these shadows. It wasn't scary because of the light nudging through. This mysterious dynamic moved me to paint this scene, and I wanted to encapsulate those same feelings in the painting.