New Fall Landscape

Although the spring season is moving along, damp and cold weather plus other circumstances have kept me in the studio. It's a good time of year for making more finished landscapes, like "Fall on the River," below.

"Fall on the River," oil on wood panel, 9x12

The setting of this painting is a bank of the Raccoon River. The river meanders and winds through lowlands not far from my studio, making it a constant target of opportunity. This painting is based on plein air sketches from early last fall as well as much personal observation. In the distance, sunlight is reflected onto the woods and rock of the bank as the river turns. Trees along here that change early in the fall seem to fade from green to yellow-green before going golden. The sky begins to look a bit colder, but summer isn't finished just yet.