Original Acrylic Cloud Painting Impressionistic

Original Acrylic Landscape Painting on Canvas
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$178 with free shipping to the US
Painted black on the sides, no frame needed

Original Acrylic Painting Road Fall Trees

Original Acrylic Landscape Painting Road Fall Trees Modern Contemporary
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"Through the Woods"
24 x 36 on canvas

Original Acrylic Painting Road Fall Trees
^$178 in my Etsy Store^
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Sitting here looking out the window at the cold snow covered ground, I am longing for fall.

Large Western Landscape Painting Tree Mountain

Large Western Landscape Painting Tree Mountain
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$195 with free shipping to the US
2 ft x 4 ft on canvas
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Yea, I know, I was a little timid with the color. This is a painting that I had laying around, and I reworked it. I darkened the foreground. I added all of the trees at the base of the hill except the 3 on the left. It has a real good sense of depth. Phooey with the idea of making the colors grayer in the background to create depth. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Why would anyone want to skin a cat, anyway!

Original Acrylic Tree Painting

Original Acrylic Tree Painting
^ $58 free shipping to US ^
on canvas
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Basketball season has started and my son is keeping me hopping, taking him to practices and such. Next year he will be driving, and I'm sure that will change things considerable, as I will no longer be needed. The empty nest will soon be here.

Original Acrylic Painting Red Lake Sunset

Original Acrylic Painting Red Lake Sunset 24x36 on canvas
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My latest painting. I got the idea for this painting by doing Aceo miniature paintings. I have found that it is a great way to experiment and come up with new ideas and at the same time produce sell -able work. As oppose to doing sketches and then throwing them away.

Original Acrylic Abstract Painting

"Octopus"
36 x 24 on canvas
$175
Original acrylic abstract painting
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Ok, so it isn't really suppose to be an Octopus, it just kind reminds me of one. I had to name it something. I have a twisted sense of humor, so why not! This painting has loads of texture. It has a lot of tissue paper glue on it to give texture. Then the paint is applied on top of the paper.

Sunset painting with fall leaves

"Glorious Sunset"

Acrylic on paper 24x13

This is what I did on my birthday today. I started on this painting,didn't like it, painted over it. Didn't like what I started the second time, so I just decided to start playing around, and this is what came out.

The Smoky mountains in Fall

"Mountain View"
24x14
Original Acrylic Painting of the Smoky Mountains in Fall
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I started another Smoky mountain painting today and I'm just not happy with it. I'll just keep staring at it until it tells me what to do.

Smoky Mountain painting- Red River Gorge

Red River Gorge
Original Acrylic Painting
30x22


Another Painting of the Smokies, I'm having fun with the fog.

The Smoky mountains

Fog in the Smoky Mountains
30x16


I am on a Smoky Mountain painting binge, since I have 2 show coming up in Kentucky.

Abstract Acrylic Painting

24x36

Abstract Acrylic painting

on canvas

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As of late I have been doing a lot of Abstracts. I have a number of Chicago shows and it is a very contemporary market. There are so many shows in Chicago that you really have to have something different to get peoples attention. My abstacts a a little different in that they have shadows and a lot of different planes or levels (depth). At least I think so.

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I've had 7 shows in a row and then vacation, It's been a busy summer so far.

Montauk lighthouse original painting Long Island

Montauk Lighthouse

This is a commission that I recently did.

I know I have been away from the blog for a while. I have done 7 shows in the past 8 weeks. It has been all that I can do to get ready for the shows.

Acrylic landscape painting

Acrylic Landscape Painting

outside frame measurement 37 x 25

$450

Original Framed Acrylic Landscape cloudscape painting

"Field of Blue"

Original framed acrylic landscape cloudscape painting

43 x 27 outside measurement of frame

$750 free shipping to US

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I am busy painting and framing for shows. This is one of the painting I will be dragging across the country, hopefully for not very long. I have been working a a deal with a company that supplies framed prints for hotels. They have 37 of my painting that they are looking to print. Hopefully it will come to something, you just never know how these kind of things will do. Wish me luck!

I have been in the doledrums as far as painting goes. I have been painting,but it has been laborous. I have finally come into the light and am painting at a furious pace. I seem to work best under a deadline.

Original acrylic cloud painting

"Cloud Bank"

5x7

watercolor

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I am presently painting a lot of small acrylics. I just haven't taken the time to take photo's of them. I am wanting to do some instructional painting videos. So,I bought a new computer with windows 7. Then I found out that my real expensive scanner won't work with Windows 7 ,that'a a real bummer.

Watercolor winter snow painting hill and tree

"Snowy Hill"

5x7
Original Watercolor on 140 lb. paper
29.99
Free shipping to the US
Sold as image only
Paypal accepted
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I have gotten really busy painting for my art shows which start the last weekend of April. The first being Cherokee Triangle in Louisville, KY - April 24,25. It seems that I am most productive when I have a deadline looming.

Original Watercolor Painting Birds in Snow

"Hunting For Food"
5x7
Original Watercolor Painting Birds in Snow
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Well it already happened, I got in 2 art shows ranked in the top 100 in the nation. Both are on the same weekend. Now I will have to cancel one. Summerfair in Cincinnati and 57th Street in Chicago. Summerfair is close, but 57th Street is grandfathered. If I do 57 St, I might be guaranteed of getting back in for at least a couple years. Summerfair keeps jurying me in and out. I was in, then out, in 2 years, then out, now in again. The economy is really down in Cincinnati, maybe it's better in Chicago. This is a tough call.

ACEO original watercolor Lighthouse painting of Cape Hatterus

"Cape Hatterus Lighthouse"
2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
ACEO original watercolor Lighthouse painting of Cape Hatterus
$18 free shipping to the US
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I am starting to hear back from art shows, it looks like it could be an interesting year. I have gotten in a couple shows that I have been trying to get in for years. I got on the wait list for Talbot Street in Indianapolis. I have been applying for 15 years. I hear it is a Gran-fathered show. At least that is how it has been in the past. Once you are in, your in. I have been paying a $20 jury fee for 15 years and have just now gotten on the wait list. That is pretty sad. I have always sent very bright paintings with reds and yellows.


This year I went with Blues and purples, that are slightly more realistic, and not so much in your face. I also got in the 57st Art Show in Chicago. Hopefully the good news will keep on coming. It is a fickled business. The trick is getting back in the good shows that I did last year and then getting in more good ,new shows this year.


On many weekends, I will apply to 3 shows, hoping to get in one. I might get in 2 and have to cancel one, or I might not get in any of them. You just never know, it depends on who they pick to be on the Jury. It is a Crap Shoot, which makes it hard to plan your year. Wish me luck!

Original watercolor painting a tree at sunset

"Fall in Splendor"
Original watercolor painting a tree at sunset
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$48 Free shipping to the US
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I am busy painting my heart out, getting ready for the coming art show season. It has been a long cold winter , with really high heating bills. We will all be happy to see spring. It is hard to get motivated to paint in the dreary cold of winter. I think some sunshine would brighten my disposition.

Realistic Original watercolor painting of a white barn

"Old Barn"
10x14
Realistic Original watercolor painting of a white barn
$58 to the US , $63 International
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Yea, the Olympics are starting.

original watercolor painting lake sunset

"Bold Sunset"
10x14
$58 To US and Canada
original watercolor painting lake sunset

Original Watercolor sunset snow painting

"Pristine"
Original Watercolor sunset snow painting
$58 to US 
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I am really over the snow thing, we had another snow storm last night. That is about the 5th one, highly unusual for Southern Indiana. Looks like my sons High School graduation is going to be pushed back at least a week because of all the missed school days.

Original watercolor maine boat

"Boat in Maine"
7x10
Original watercolor
$48 to US
$53 International
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This painting was painted from pictures that I took in Maine a long time ago. In some ways, Maine looked like a place where time stands still.

Original water painting colorful sunset lake

"Really Bold Sunset"
7x10
Original water painting colorful sunset lake
$48 to the US
Free shipping to the US, if you buy here.
SOLD

As you can see, I am really timid with color. Not! This is one of those scenes that doesn't seem like it could be real, but you know, it does really look like this sometimes.

Watercolor painting of an old Farm House and Barn

" The Old Farm"
7x10
Watercolor painting of an old Farm House and Barn
^In my Store^

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This is an old farm outside of Brownstown, Indiana. I used to drive by this farm as a kid, riding the bus to school.

original watercolor winter sunset snow and tree

"Drama in the Sky"
11x14
original watercolor winter sunset snow and tree
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Lovers at Sunset original watercolor painting

"The Lovers"
7x10
Lovers at Sunset original watercolor painting
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Bodaciously Colorful watercolor painting of a birch tree

"Lavender Enchantment"
10x7
Bodaciously Colorful watercolor painting of a birch tree
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Miniature Cape Lookout Lighthouse painting

"FOCUS"
Is this weeks topic on
Illustration Friday
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"Cape Lookout Lighthouse" North Carolina
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I think of focus as having a singular purpose. A Lighthouse has a focused beam of light, and exist for a singular purpose. To warn ships of danger.

Original watercolor painting of Fall trees

"Glorious Fall"
10x14
Original watercolor painting of Fall trees
$125

Dramatic Original watercolor sunset snow painting

"New Snow
10x14
Dramatic Original watercolor sunset snow painting
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Original watercolor painting of fall trees

"View of the Valley
10x14
Original watercolor painting of fall trees
^In my watercolor Etsy store^
$125

This is not a real place,but it is the type of scene that I have surrounding me, as I live in the middle of the rolling hills of southern Indiana. I never paint a scene as it is. I find, I always have to rearrange nature. God made it beautiful, but he didn't intend his work to be put in such a tiny space. So it needs to be rearrange for the sake of balance and symmetry.

Montauk Lighthouse watercolor painting Aceo miniature

" Montauk Lighthouse"
Montauk Lighthouse watercolor painting Aceo miniature

Really a lot, to get in such a small space. I wonder how long the Lighthouses will remain, I am afraid they will go the way of the Covered bridge.
SOLD

Barnegat New Jersey Lighthouse ACEO watercolor Painting

"Barnegat"
2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
Barnegat New Jersey Lighthouse ACEO watercolor
SOLD

Seagull Perched Watercolor ACEO Painting

"Seagull Perched"
2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
Seagull Perched Watercolor ACEO Painting

Original ACEO watercolor Cape Hatterus Lighthouse

"Cape Hatterus "
2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
Original ACEO watercolor Cape Hatterus Lighthouse

Someone ask me if I had any Lighthouse ACEO's ,so I painted some. It doesn't hurt to ask.

Acrylic painting of fall Trees reflecting on the water

"Forever View"
18x24
Acrylic painting of fall Trees reflecting on the water
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Aceo Watercolor mountain Painting

--------------------Wilderness By Derek Collins
Perchance I walk on distant lands,
Where ne'er did foot to find it's path,
But oh,
What glory it would be,
Embraced in natures simplicity.

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This is my entry for the topic
WILDERNESS
on
Illustration Friday
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Light filled Acrylic Snow painting with animal footprints

"Footprints"
18x24
Light filled Acrylic Snow painting with animal footprints
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$125 includes shipping to the US
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I guess looking at the snow,has put me in the mood to paint snow. I live in a 1924 renovated farm house. I'm sure it probable doesn't have any insulation in the walls. So I will be particularly happy to see spring.

Original acrylic snow scene on canvas

"Sparkling Snow"
Original acrylic snow scene on canvas
18x24
$140 includes shipping to the US
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original acrylic painting of Fall Tree colors

"Fall Leaves"
18x24 on canvas
original acrylic painting of Fall Tree colors
^^In my Etsy Store^^

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This is the painting that I painted as a demonstration for the painting class that I had.