#5

Organic Valley Chicken Farm. I love that Organic Valley is big here. Way too much detail in this building. It is hard to convey emotion and detail. I walk that line.

#4

Again from Thanksgiving. I will probably paint this bluff again. I am seemingly drawn to the abstract in all it's forms. Had to paint this quickly-late for Thanksgiving dinner. You can see the "unholy trains" as Mark Twain described them in the foreground.

#3

Also done on Turkey Day. It is hard listening to the Packers on the radio and painting.
I liked the warm hazy affect from that day at Goose Island. You aren't supposed to look into the sun, but oh well.

#2

Painting done on Thanksgiving. I heard stories about Norman Rockwell's wife getting uppity about how she had to drag him out of his studio to participate in the holidays.
I have the same situation as him, and a bad track record.
This few is south of town(Stoddard).

Plowing through winter #1

Sometimes I think about what I say on this thing and that people actually do look at it. Maybe I come across as a serious dude. I am. As an artist, or hopefully responsible adult, I feel I should be outspoken. But don't let that fool you. Just because I try really hard to communicate the beauty of our planet by trying to inspire people to take ownership and understand their actions, doesn't mean I don't have a sense of humor. Now the real point, because I have grown to hate winter and the last three can kiss my ass, I am vowing to enjoy this go around. It seems I am happy when I am outside, so I am doing a painting everyday for a hundred days. Sorry about Christmas in advance. So far I am 14 days in and have 22 paintings. Somedays I paint just one, sometimes a few. I will try to post 100, you will never catch me posting this much in the summer.
This is the first one, I can do better than this. I could tell I was out of rhythm, I think I am going to do a better one.

Outbuildings

A cool outbuilding in Waukesha.
And my own, well the chicken thing was inevitable.
We got four chickens from the Seed Saver Exchange in Iowa.
Two breeding pairs, one of Polish Golden and one Light Brahma Bantams.
Names are Pope John Paul, Phillis, Cnut, and Carol.
When we found out we were getting the chickens had basically 24 hours to build a pen and coop, without ever having done that before.
But hopefully the hard stuff is over and I can go back to concentrating on paintings.

Iowa and things

A few new paintings