While Winter Sleeps

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While Winter Sleeps

6x18
Oil on stretched canvas

To the Sun

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To the Sun
16x20 Oil on canvas

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
                                           -C.S. Lewis

Climb Out of the Box

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Climb Out of the Box

11x14 Original oil on canvas

Coneflower

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Coneflower

12x16 Oil on stretched canvas

The Poppy Field

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The Poppy Field

 

34x40 Oil on stretched canvas

• Thanks for being a fellow creator


• one who oozes art out of their fingertips, whose creativity can't be contained and must come out


• a fellow traveler, wanderer, wonderer


• one who holds onto the smallest beam of light in the darkness and waits for sunrise

3 New Commissions

I always like creating custom paintings. Here's a couple I've been working on lately.

Hum-Abstract Impressionism Hummingbird Oil Painting

 

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Hum

18x24 Original Oil on stretched canvas

• Back porch steps, late afternoon sun


• Birds flutter in the feeder


• I don't think I've ever seen a hummingbird land before. He sits on the clothesline


• Teeny tiny body. So fragile you could crush him in your hand.


• Why is it that all grandmothers seem to have learned to enjoy things like birds and flowers?

 

Iris

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Iris

5x7 Oil on raymar panel

Clover

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Clover

24x24 Oil on canvas

By the Tracks

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By the Tracks

16x20 Oil on canvas

One does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason!...How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be?
                   ~Van Gogh

Side of the Road

Blue Toadflax

Violet Wood-sorrel

Bachelor's Button

False Garlic

Crimson Clover

Lance-leaf Tickseed

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Side of the Road

Six 4x4 Oil on canvas

A tiny collection inspired by the roadside wildflowers that appear in spring and light up the grass with sparks of color.

Things Wished For

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Things Wished For

11x14 Oil on canvas

If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a prayer a magic-bean-buyer
If you're a pretender come sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!
                      ~Shel Silverstein

Wild

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"Wild"
12x36 Oil on canvas

"Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect."
                                                                              ~Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls)

Yellow

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Yellow
5x7 oil on raymar canvas
Pallet knife

Bloom

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"Bloom"
12x12 Oil on stretched canvas

I painted this at night...first time painting at night. I just always feel like I need fresh sunlight to paint but I like how this one turned out.

Spacious Place

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Spacious Place
18x24 Oil on stretched canvas.

I love how this one turned out. The photo does not capture the color quite right so it looks better in real life. I was trying to focus more on form than detail and also get into the habit of using alot of paint.

The title comes from Psalm 18:19 and 2 Sam. 22:20
He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

The Peach Blossom

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"The Peach Blossom"

10x10 Oil on gallery wrapped canvas.

Plant Something

Plant Something
5x7 Oil on canvas panel

A professor gave me some valuable advice this past semester. He said that whenever he moves to a new place, no matter how long he will be living there, he always plants something and gets to know the people around him. We won't be living in Columbia for a whole lot longer, but these are petunias that I planted.