Agnes Lake

Agnes Lake

oil on canvas

12 x 12

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This painting is inspired by one of our hikes up to Agnes Lake in Northern Colorado. It is such a beautiful lake - I recommend the trip to you all! Riley loved hiking through Colorado with us. The city parks here in Omaha don't quite compare. There are plenty of state parks around here that are beautiful though! We definitely don't take advantage of them! Anyway, Agnes Lake is one of my favorite memories of living in Colorado so I'm glad that I finally did a painting of it!

In the Morning

In the Morning

16 x 20

oil on canvas

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In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.  Psalm 5:3

Boating in Minnesota

Boating in Minnesota
18 x 20
oil on canvas

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I worked in the flower shop today, so I didn't have a chance to paint something new. Thought I would post an older painting. This was a commission a few years back. I'm off tomorrow so I can finish up the painting I'm currently working on and have something new to post!

Boys on the Lake, watercolor

Boys on the Lake

5 x 7

watercolor

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Here is a watercolor version of the oil I did last year.  I ended up selling that oil and love the image so much that I had to revisit it.  I loved painting the water.  Sitting on a boat on a warm day in Colorado sounds nice right now.  Current temperature: -14

Hillary at the Lake

Hillary at the Lake
4' x 5'
Oil

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This painting was a lot of fun! I love painting water with all of its unusual shapes and reflections. I am hoping to do more "water" paintings in the near future! Currently I am working on a boat painting... hope to be showing you soon!

A Charcoal Sketch of Gracy

Gracy at the Lake
14 x 17
Charcoal

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I love how raw a sketch can be. It is so different from painting in that way. With painting, I can go back and fix something, hide something and continue to layer until the final product looks nothing like the initial brush strokes. A sketch, on the other hand, must be carefully and meticulously planned and yet some of my favorite qualities in a sketch are the raw and imperfect smudges and lines that give it character. It is in finding this balance between raw energetic strokes and careful planning and measuring that keeps me sketching!

Figures in a Landscape

On the Lake
18 x 24
Oil on Canvas

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This painting was one of my first "figure in landscape" paintings. I really enjoy painting people within a landscape painting. I think it is interesting that as viewers we immediately relate somehow to a painting. With a landscape painting, one remembers a place or a time that may be similar to the image he or she is viewing. A figure in a landscape is an additional element that invites the viewer to create a story or interpret the emotion of the moment. I would love to continue to do paintings that invite the viewer step into the moment in front of them.