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Paintings! / Trees

Clean Air

Here is a new piece of forest art for you: “Clean Air.” This painting is the newest of my recent work which shows bursts of sunlight shining down through the …

Paintings! / Trees

Magenta Morning

Here is “Magenta Morning.” 48″ x 48″. This painting is full of warmth and light. The white sunlight pouring down from the sky is blinding up in the treetops. Golden …

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Sunshine Wishes

Here is “Sunshine Wishes.” 30″ x 40″. This large-scale canvas is filled by a gloriously blinding rainbow sunburst shining through the crowns of tall trees. The acrylic painting is full …

Paintings! / Trees

Friday in the Rainbow Forest

Here is “Friday in the Rainbow Forest.” The setting of this painting was inspired by the beautiful Columbia River Gorge, but it evokes the feeling of many similar beautiful natural …

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Evergreen Spectrum

This 12″ x 36″ panorama-format original oil painting on canvas is called “Evergreen Spectrum.” The sun breaks through the tall trees with a blinding beauty. Every color of the visible …

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King of the Clearing

Here is “King of the Clearing.” This grassy clearing is absolutely flooded with sunlight. A lone crow alights on the end of an outstretched branch, surveying the calm scene around it.  …

Paintings! / Trees

Sunshine

I started creating this painting four years ago, but stopped before it was finished because something about its rough, unfinished state pleased me. I hung it on the wall in …

Paintings! / Portraits

Creative Vision

Here is the first self portrait I’ve created in 11 years: “Creative Vision.” It is about being an artist and an agent of purposeful change and action–the process of conceiving …

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Fall

Here is “Fall.” This painting is full of the vibrant red, orange and yellow colors of autumn leaves in the forest. Sunlight bursts through the colorful foliage from the bright …