Images from the realms of imagined realities captured in oil on canvas

On-location, Landscape paintings from Oregon, Canada, Alaska, and American Great Plains

My style is considered realism edging into impressionism. I layer paints in the fashion of 16th and 17th Century Italian painters.

I enjoy painting a variety of subjects, and group the paintings into galleries roughly by subject. The canvases marked AVAILABLE are original oils, listed by size, and priced unframed. Prepared for shipment or delivery at cost including insurance.

My style is considered realism edging into impressionism. I layer paints in the fashion of 16th and 17th Century Italian painters.

I conceived this image from a dream as I was waking, as many of my paintings have emerged. The discarded agriculture equipment left along the fence-rows or in the edges of woods, prompted the idea. Three friends determine they will get the girl running again.  On their own and ignoring the laughter of men-folk, they pulled the cold-metal hulk into the yard from the back woodlot where she had been discarded four years ago. Like a cookbook, the maintenance manual instructs the ‘how-to’ steps to adjust tappets, rocker-arms, and timing belt, rebuild carburetor, replace filters and gaskets, install new distributor, starter motor, and exhaust, It’s not so hard to figure out the ingredients that must go into the recipe, towel, apron, time, persistence, a little elbow grease, and cook it up.

I had two reference photos of the old John Deere, taken while exploring a farm in Illinois.  All of the rest of the painting came from imagination and memory.