Painting close to home

Some days I just want to paint right outside, close to lunch and a bathroom, not losing any travel time…. Here’s a close-up of the texture on this one. Dancing Clouds, 9×12″, oil on linen

Cow and farm paintings. Minnesota and South Dakota landscape paintings.

The spring colors of the fields in South Dakota are beautiful, and change constantly. Here’s a vista of cows on the slightly rolling hills around Brookings. I love the rainbow of rich colors in the fields around here. Velvety browns, oranges, and violet in the distance, and the sky could be anywhere between grey to vibrant …

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Campanile, Brookings, SDSU. Minnesota and South Dakota landscape paintings.

This is “Campanile on a clear March day” (Can you suggest a better name?). For some reason this painting isn’t photographing well. The trees are very dark and have a lot of red in them, and the snow a cool color. I’ll try again later for a better photo.  That person walking looked to me …

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