Green Twister: abstract artwork

Green Twister is an abstract showing my fascination with higher and lower aspects of nature.

American Blew: an abstract painting

When I showed this abstract to my stepson on the internet, he suggested that I call this painting American Blew.  My stepson Shane, lives in the USA.

Can you tell or suggest to me why he picked that name?

River on the Dells of the Eau Claire - Wisconsin artwork

The Dells of the Eau Claire is a great place to visit in Wisconsin. 

This painting shows the river downstream from the dam.

Frosty Snowscape, Alaska.

My cousin Bob sent me a whole set of photos from Alaska.  Here is the first painting of a series I hope to have completed within the next six months.

Bob and his wife Linda lecture and work at a Bible College in Glennallen, Alaska.

I have a fascination with painting snow.

Shane’s Front Yard, Wisconsin Winter – my first snowscape in oils.

This was my first snowcape oil painting.  The snow in the Wisconsin winter is reasonably heavy.

As an Australian living in a land of sun, where we rarely see or experience snow.  

I have only ever been in snow, trying to ski that is - twice in my whole life!

I have a special fascination with painting snow.  I suppose if I had to drive to work everyday in snow and rain, I would not be so fascinated about snow!

The Wave - An artwork of surf.

This is one of my 'early' paintings, of waves on the ocean.  I watched a number of videos on the ocean waves before I finally painted this artwork. 

I have completed over 300 SCUBA dives so, I am familiar and love the ocean waves and water. 

The ocean can be calm and a wind can blow up some serious waves in a heartbeat.  I can remember the time I was diving in the ocean off Jarvis Bay, New South Wales, Australia...

The ocean was calm when I submerged, and after a 45 minute dive, I surfaced to find that the ocean waves were running at 6 feet or more and the dive boat was running about, with the captain really worried, to make sure that he picked us all up OK.

We all made it.

Green River - an abstract painting

This abstract reminded me of a river, hence the name. Abstracts give you freedom, free to let your brush do things that you cannot do when painting realistic subjects.

Eclipse Theatre - a spooky artwork.

This old theatre is in a little country town of Deepwater, in the state of  New South Wales, Australia.  The town has a  population of about 300 souls. 

This theatre looks like it has not seen a show for many years, as TV has made such country venues obsolete. I imagine that this building is haunted by ghosts of begone films and productions.
Hence - I made this painting as spooky as possible.

Rainbow Farm, a painting of a sign ~ from another place.

This is a painting from a photograph I took a few years ago. 

My wife and I were driving down the New England Highway from Brisbane to Sydney, Australia to see my mother who was very near death.  My brother called me on the cell / mobile phone to tell me that Mum had passed away.  This was in the middle of the afternoon and the sun was still out in the sky.  We were still a long way from Sydney!

I had not driven a more than a few more miles down the road when I saw a complete rainbow in the sky.  I jumped out of the car and took a number of photographs.  I managed to get a complete set of pictures of the rainbow that ended on a farmhouse.  My last picture was a zoom or close up of the house and the rainbow.  This painting is based on that photo. 

I looked at this rainbow, the first time I had ever seen such a complete rainbow, as a sign from God that all was well with my mother, and this was a great comfort to my wife and me at the time.  I still consider this to be a sign from another place, to give understanding that life goes on, and all is right in heaven. 

Blue Mermaid - an art abstact in blue

This abstract was created at the same time as my prior posted Desert Track abstract.

I see in this painting the deep of the ocean, with maybe a suggestion of a mermaid lurking in the water.

I love SCUBA diving and find great relaxation when floating weightless in the depths.  When I have been SCUBA diving in clear water on the Great Barrier Reef off the Australian Coast, I have the sensation that I am 'flying' above the white sandy bottom.

Desert Track: An Australian Abstract Painting

This abstract was painted in the style of Australian Aboriginal artwork.  This painting reminds me of the color of the Australian Desert.

I was flying to Asia in a QANTAS jet some years ago, and the flight path was right over the Australian Inland. I looked out the window of the plane and saw that the landscape of Australia was red for thousands of miles.

Painting of a Wisconsin Grassland Sunset.

Wisconsin is a state of lakes and reasonably flat land. 

Now before any Wisconsinites take offence I do not mean anything bad about the word “flat.”   I live in Australia, but have made four trips to Wisconsin in the last ten years.  My darling wife (who comes from Wisconsin, still gets blown away with the mountains she sees as we drive home - in Brisbane).

Wisconsin does have mind blowing beautiful nature parks with hills and vales, just no high mountains.

I have used some ‘heavy’ acrylic paint in this particular artwork, making this sunset an impressionist glimpse of the sun seen through long grass.  

Roche A Cri State Park... a Painting in Purple

This is a painting where I tried something a little different.  I cranked up the purple paint and gave this painting a different slant. 

The Roche-A-Cri State Park in Wisconsin, USA is a rock basically standing up from the ground some several hundred feet. 

The Roche-A-Cri monolith has rock art from the Indians, and even graffitti from the civil war!

I like this painting as I love the color purple, but this painting also shows the rock in a 'different light'.

Abstract Painting - Face of a Clown

I have been painting abstact artwork on small sized canvases for some time. 

I have read a good book on abstracts by Rolina Van Vliet.  Her book has given me some insighst into the painting of Abstracts.

Here is an abstract artwork called Face of a Clown.  My first abstract painting for this blog.

This artwork is named because my stepson Shane looked at this painting and said that he could see the face of a clown within the painting.

Can you?

Hatten Park - My First Snowscape Painting.

This painting is my first snowscape.  This painting shows the last fall of decent snow, as spring time was just around the corner.

I have walked down the road in this painting.  One summer while walking through this park, I saw three deer that were looking curiously back at me.  They held still long enough for me to get a photograph. 

My stepson Shane walks throughout the park on a regular basis to keep fit and healthy.

The park was named after William Hatten, who owned a lumber company in New London, Wisconsin, USA. He was a major contributor to the formation of the park.

The park has 120 acres of woods as well as plenty of open spaces needed for regular recreational activities.

As I live in Australia, where the warm sun shines all year round,  artworks of snow have a special fascination for me.