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QUALITY OIL PAINTINGS

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

Plein Air Painting

Landscape and Plein Air Paintings On-location, Landscape paintings from Oregon, Canada, Alaska, and American Great Plains. I have attempted to paint on-site through all four seasons and have resolved to forego painting in winter. I still take sketch pad and pencils into snowy and rainy scenes but carry the drawings inside to begin work with

Under Tow

Can you see where you’re headed, who you are taking with you, and the impact it will have? Are we blinded and determined to see it “one way?” Who are we leaving behind? Why? Powerful questions when we look up from the abyss.

Imagined Realities

Fantasy — Other Worlds, Other Times, Other Beings Images from the realms of imagined realities captured in oil on canvas

Faith, Love. and Wonder

Inspired by scripture and the love for family, Stan created this painting as a gift for a very loved nephew. This painting currently resides in Illinois.

‘She Runs’

All for the want of tilling a garden. 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

The Least Of These

Wrapped up in a small world at a moment in time that lives on inside a child reaching for something to fill the emptiness.