Watercolor Painting - Somewhere In Illinois

Watercolor on Arches 300-lb cold-press paper. Quarter-sheet, 11" x 15" (28 x 38 cm).

This is the finished commissioned painting for a friend, which is the final version of several barn and cornfield ideas with which I've played over the past year. The goal was to create a scene in summer, one that you might see while driving the back roads in Illinois.

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Watercolor Painting - Canoeing the Meramec

Watercolor on Arches 300-lb cold-press paper. Painting: 15" x 22" (38 x 56 cm), overall dimensions 21" x 27.25" (53 x 69 cm).

This is the finished commissioned painting for a friend of mine. He wanted a painting of he and his brother in a canoe. The intention was to create a river landscape in fall where the canoe would be a small feature only to be discovered by the viewer after looking at the painting for a while. Additionally, the ripples in the water in the extreme foreground are meant to convey the wake of a canoe that is perhaps following the canoe farther down the river.

Shown framed, there's a fairly strong glare in this photo, as I took it after the glass was installed. In person, the painting is very saturated with bright fall colors.

This painting is based on an earlier sketch which appears in the previous posting below.

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