The Old Barn Door

5” x 7” (12.7cm x 17.8cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®.

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The proverbial “Barn Door” is, of course, the door that is closed too late after the horse has escaped or after the damage has been done. This barn door is one I found on an Illinois farm and the wood was so weathered and worn that I wanted to do a painting. After I began the painting, I realized the slot for the door latch had fallen away and all that remained were the two holes where it had been fastened, making it the proverbial barn door that could not be locked.

In modern day life not much has changed. We often still seem to function this way, when we try to solve problems after the damage has been done. This could be an idiom for a lot of things in our world today.
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Early Fall Sky in Michigan

7 in x 5 in(17.8cm x12.7cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®

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In Michigan this time of year the sky is always beautiful but often we get a lot of “Mares Tails” clouds or sometimes called “Fallstreaks”. There is a beautiful old building on M60 near us where I saw this sky and wanted to record it in a painting.

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Cup and Egg in Wall Niche

7 in x 5 in(17.8cm x12.7cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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The cup and egg were not just chosen at random but selected because I wanted to attempt a composition based on a classical motif of curved and straight forms. The idea of curved or rounded forms contrasted against geometric or linear forms goes back to classical design as in Greek motifs of Egg and Dart patterns on architecture. Brunelleschi, the designer and builder of the Dome in the Cathedral of Florence also used the circle and square in his design for many architectural structures including the Hospital of the Innocents in Florence, Italy. It’s a classical concept that I chose to use for this small painting.
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Cherries with Turning Leaves on Barnwood

7” x 5”(17.8cm x12.7cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®.
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My early years were spent on a small farm in Illinois, so when I see old weathered barn siding it brings back nostalgic memories of those years in the countryside. The challenge of this painting was to contrast the textures of fruit and leaves against the weathered siding of old barn siding. Peeling paint provided a pattern to enhance the composition and the early morning sun added interesting directional shadows.
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Four Gondolas in Venice

5” x 7” (12.7cm x 17.8cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®.
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This is the first small painting I've made available directly on my blog in a while. On our last visit to Italy we saw these Gondolas in the Bacino Orseolo near Piazza San Marco where you can arrange for a ride in one of these beautiful boats. The design of the gondola dates back over 1,000 years and a few are still made each year. Some day I want to create a computer 3-D model of a gondola, but it would take some time to do. If anyone has already done this I'd like to know about it.

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Pandora's Box

"Pandora's Box" 6in. x 6in. (15.2cm x 15.2cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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This painting is a pithos or ancient Greek storage jar. It was painted in the style similar to one in the Louvre Museum in Paris. A pithos jar was supposedly the container Panodora brought with her to Epimetheus, from Zeus, which she was forbidden to open. Epimetheus was the brother of Prometheus who had stolen fire from Zeus to give to mankind. When Pandora through her curiosity opened the container she released all the misfortunes of mankind.

Because this painting was done for a benefit auction it seemed fitting since the purpose of the benefit is to support a worthy need of humankind, thus helping to redress what Pandora set loose upon the world. Today we think of Pandora’s container as “Pandora’s Box” however the myth according to Hesiod says it was a storage jar. The last thing to come out of the jar was hope, thus giving us reason for optimism in spite of misfortune.

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Berry Picking

“Berry Picking” 5” x 7” (12.7cm x 17.8cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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Does anyone remember picking raspberries and blackberries in the field? When I was a kid, each year our family would find berry patches and take home lots of berries. The result was fresh berries to eat but also canning, preserving, and making jam and jelly. How many people still do this?

These came from a patch near the pond behind our house. They are great on cereal in the morning.

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