Archives for July 2014

My ancestral home place is located on U S Route 40 in east central Illinois.  Both U S Routes 66 and 40 traverse the state.  Even though Route 66 has more folk lore, Route 40 actually has more history.  It’s known as the Old National Road, America’s first paved highway running from Maryland to Vandalia, […]

For a few years, my in-laws owned a vacation property on Florida’s Emerald Coast.  We traveled down there two to three times a year to enjoy the “good life” of a professionally manicured gated community of houses you see in magazines.  I painted a number of scenes around there, including this view looking westward across […]

This is another classic little roadside “one-stop” that had to be torn down before it fell in.  The front of the building housed the store while the back was a tractor repair shop where only the proprietor knew where to find any parts (strictly used) in all the piles of rusty stuff.  This painting was […]

This is one of a series of vignette-style paintings of historic buildings of our local community that have been torn down.  This train station  was one of many similar structures that fell victim to demolition before more recent initiatives to preserve historic buildings across America. This station was the half-way point on the trip on […]

This is an autumn view from our local city park looking north toward our central business district.  The foreground subject is a beautiful clock that was provided to the city by one of it’s sons who made it big in the entertainment business.  He donated the clock as a memorial to his mother who served […]

I’m fascinated by sunsets and the challenge the issue to an artist to capture on paper or canvas.  This view down Gilmore Drive toward the setting sun shows another subject of mine in the distance – the Wright Log Cabin.  Between the cabin and the subject building is the Frisco Pasadena Hills railroad passenger car. […]

My first effort at this for our own bathroom.  Paints were a variety of transparent paints, stains and textures applied by brush, sponge and spray can.  This window is 18″ x 36″.