Autumn Reprise Nos. 1-3

Featured this Friday are three sweet cardinal landscapes from my St. Luke's show which is displayed in the A building. The show is titled Autumn Encore, and will be up now through the end of 2015. These fun paintings are full of color and playfulness, the cardinals sprinkled throughout, adding their color and intrigue to the compositions. These new acrylics on canvas are titled Autumn Reprise 1 - 3 and measure 5"w x 7"h each. Please contact me for purchase information.

Autumn Sonata

"Autumn Sonata"  24"w x 20"h, acrylic on canvas

Autumn Sonata is the title of this new 24"w x 20"h acrylic painting on canvas. I brightened up the sky and the colors on this piece, really endeavoring to capture the crispness of an autumn sky. This scene is familiar for me, I've come across birches, rocks, maples, and colorful underbrush so many times while hiking through the area that I work primarily from memory. Working this way can be exciting to see what happens at the end .. and also a little nerve racking from time to time as there is always the feeling of what if I don't like the outcome? But I approach my art like I do my hikes ... just head out, go explore, have fun, enjoy the hike. Perhaps I should approach life this way too .. like another trail waiting to be explored ...
This painting is part of my Autumn Encore show at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, MN now through the end of 2015.

Autumn Encore

"Autumn Encore"  48"w x 24"h, acrylic on canvas

Today's painting, titled Autumn Encore, is a new 48"w x 24"h acrylic on canvas which is part of my show at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth. This large painting anchors the show right in the center of the wall where the 25 paintings and prints are hung. This piece features birches and rocks, which is what I see everywhere I go along the north shore of lake Superior where I live ... but the subject of this painting is really the background which is filled with the blazing colors of fall. Layer upon layer of color rises, giving way to distant cool blue ridges before meeting the bright blue sky. I wish this view was what I looked at in the window year round, but alas the colors of the changing leaves are only around a couple weeks, so I just have to capture it on canvas.