The Path of Water

Acrylic on commercially primed  9 inch by 12 inch board.  Palette: white, Indian Yellow, Red Oxide, Burnt Umber (for convenience), Phthalo Blue, and Payne’s Grey.  

Fall Upstream

Acrylic on 11 inch by 14 inch canvas board. ($65, includes shipping) Bargain of the week. This painting just doesn’t come across well with a digital photo. Better than it looks.

Autumn Down on the Water

Oil on professionally primed 9 inch by 12 inch panel. Probably finished, except for the signing. I don’t know why some paintings turn out while others don’t. I hope you also feel invited to walk along the gravel bar for a few minutes, too. ($110, includes shipping)

New Project

Acrylic on 11 by 14 inch panel. Much of the rock texture I am painting with the side of a flat brush so far. The scene is of a rock in a fast-flowing stream.

Along the Trail to Mitchell Lake in Colorado

The most beautiful song in the mountains.

Drought

Ouzel Falls

Sold. Acrylic, 11 inch by 14 inch canvas board primed with a black acrylic primer. Colors are my wine of preference.

The reference photo is taken from a collection shot by Robert Lindsey in the Colorado mountains – if you are thinking this scene already doesn’t seem a bit related to Oklahoma.

High Summer, Low Water

Sold. Acrylic on stretched 18 inch by 24 inch canvas. Acrylic high gloss varnish.

Blue Colorado II

Acrylic on 9 x 12 inch reinforced wood panel. Primed with red oxide. Limited palette. Varnished. The scene is from a photo of Mitchell Lake in Colorado by Robert Lindsey. It was wonderful to finally hike to this lake this summer and see it for myself -but then it is also very eerie to visit places where you have spent weeks trying to paint the scene. The camera simply won’t acknowledge the red oxide undertones on the mountain for some reason even in this newer shot of the painting. ($75, includes shipping)

Cold Water Crossing

Acrylic on textured 11 by 14 canvas board. This is a painting of a stream and of an abandoned bridge built by the CCC during the Depression years. The mineral-laden water issues from a very cold spring at the Sulphur park in south central Oklahoma. In reality, much of the underbrush around the forgotten stone bridge is very healthy-looking poison ivy. The park service workers probably don’t have much trouble keeping hikers from straying from the established paths in the park as a result. I first saw this bridge when I was about 5 and have never gotten any closer than this to it. ($49, includes shipping)