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04/09/2026

These two oil paintings will be featured in a fundraising auction for the Brown County Rotary this Saturday, April 11. One is a scene from the Darling National Wildlife Refuge
on Sanibel Island, Florida with a pair of Roseate Spoonbills resting in the still water.
The other is a scene of wild orange daylilies along Rocky Hill Road here in Owen County that was painted in 1994.

03/08/2026

This is a favorite barn that I've painted several times over the years along Timber Ridge Road here in Owen County and I believe it's known as the Gibson barn. It's not very big but I've always loved the setting on the side of a hill with an artist friendly mixture of woods and meadows adorned in late summer wildflowers. I'm afraid it's seen better days as nature is slowly breaking it down. I'm on the road kind of looking down on it on an overcast late summer day with some soft sunlight just starting to hit the distant trees in the upper left. The wildflowers are Ironweed, Joe-Pye W**d, Goldenrod and White Asters. It's a 16" x 20" oil on canvas.

01/06/2026

My final painting for 2025 is a windy day on a bend of the river between Ramona and Gosport. It's December with the late afternoon sunlight striking a sandbar full of willows
as a pair of geese are winging low up river. It's a 6" x 12" oil on masonite.

12/24/2025

This little oil painting, on a sunny November afternoon, is looking downstream from a bridge over Raccoon Creek on White Road which ends at the bottom of a hill on Highway 43 at Freeman here in Owen County. It's a beautiful spot where the road hugs the creek for a hundred yards or so and it's not uncommon to see or hear a Kingfisher on a branch overhanging the water or a turtle or two sunning on the rocks. I've done several other paintings and drawings along this stretch and this latest one is only 6" x 8" and will soon be going to the Brown County Art Gallery in Nashville, Indiana. Thanks for the nice comments throughout the year and Merry Christmas everyone.

10/30/2025

Here's a cute little colored pencil drawing of a Ginseng plant that I did a few weeks ago. I was an avid ginseng digger in junior high and high school in the late summer through
autumn. This was one of the plants I had photographed with my first 35mm camera, an old Mamiya 500 Sekor, before I dug it up and put the root in my bread sack. It depicts the plant in late summer when the seeds had turned from green to red and I would scatter them in the area before moving on. And of course leave the smaller plants for future years.

10/16/2025

This latest oil painting is along Highway 246 between Vandalia and Patricksburg of an uncut field predominantly filled with Joe-pye W**d and Ironweed and a few other wildflowers at their peak bloom in late summer. It' a 12" x 24" oil on canvas at mid day with a bit of humidity in the air softening the colors of the distant tree line.

09/17/2025

I'll be at McKay Family Gifts this Friday and Saturday from 10 to 5 each day displaying some original paintings and drawings and a variety of signed prints and note cards available based on scenes from Owen County.

08/19/2025

I believe this is my 45th year as a member of Ducks Unlimited and each of those years I've had an original piece of artwork auctioned in the annual fundraiser of the White River Chapter here in Bloomington. This year it's a pencil drawing of a Pintail drake eyeing a dragonfly. In that time I've also had artwork in many other DU events in Indiana and in a few other states here in the midwest as well as the DU national headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. I've had several other pieces published on sponsor prints, artist of the year prints and duck stamp prints for the purpose of wetlands conservation. I was really humbled last year at the 50th anniversary event of the White River Chapter here in Bloomington when the DU regional director announced that my artwork has surpassed the million dollar mark for the wetlands. Recently Indiana Ducks Unlimited and Hard Truth Distillery of Brown County partnered
in this limited edition Sweet Mash Rye Whiskey featuring a Wood Duck painting of mine on the label. It was an acrylic scene, done in 1984, just inside McCormick's Creek State Park titled Early March Woodies and appeared on the Indiana Ducks Unlimited State Sponsor Print in 1986 in an edition of 1,500 signed and numbered prints. So although the painting was done forty years ago this is its second time around being used by DU in their efforts to conserve wetlands. It's only available at DU events in Indiana.

08/11/2025

I didn't get around to posting this little snow scene last winter when I painted it.
Hopefully it'll bring a welcome chilly feeling in this hot weather. Looking west off Texas
Pike at the edge of Spencer the sun is setting through the trees on the former Winders Stone Quarry property. The little barn on the left was on the former Charles and Stella
Rice farm with Spencer Walmart and Y just out of the scene to the left.
My mom always loved it when I would include an old barn in a painting and since this is the only piece I've done this year with a barn it's fitting to unveil it on August 11, 2025
which would have been her 100th birthday.

07/22/2025

This spring scene from last April looks out of the shadows of Greene's Bluff along a wide bend on Raccoon Creek. The dark foliage on the left are low hanging branches from some of the Eastern Hemlock trees unique to the bluff and Ooley Road is beyond the pasture as it goes up through the woods to Braysville Road. It's a 12" x 13" oil on masonite.
Working on a new piece now I realize it was fifty years ago today I was hurt badly in a diving incident and would deal with the lingering effects of paralysis forevermore. But thank you God, mom and dad, good friends and mentors for the many prayers, blessings and support in so many ways that enabled me to persevere.

05/22/2025

This is one of the snow scene paintings from the past winter and the setting is on Fish Creek Road here in Owen County. The turkeys are in the long shadows of the late afternoon as the strong sunlight lit up the Sycamores and hillside where they'll soon head to roost. It's a 12" x 24" oil on canvas that I'll be entering in the Indiana Heritage Arts Exhibit in June at the Brown County Art Gallery in Nashville, Indiana.

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