Rural Road Side with Wild Day
Lilies, Crawford County |
I've been painting Indiana scenes for years but it wasn't until
recently that I've used my biker / artist technique for my work. I
find this is exactly the right pace for traveling the rural roads and
small towns. I can stop nearly anywhere or easily go back to capture
something I missed.
It's quiet and beautiful and
often sparsely populated. Last time I painted for three hours and
saw only six vehicles - two of them twice. I am often presented
with the unexpected and miraculous, such as the baby fawn I saw hiding
in the roadside weeds recently or the blue heron I startled in the
creek. |
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Southern Indiana was the site of a
nationally famous artists' colony a century ago in Brown County.
Those artists are long gone and the area has become a tourist haven, but
the reasons the artists sought this part of the world are still here.
I live farther south in a county which boasts not having a single stop
light. The wild roadside flowers, the hills and autumn colors, the
lakes, rivers and streams, the churches and monasteries, the villages
and small towns are still here for the painting.
Many of the paintings here will overlap
with my Ohio River Project in the beginning stages. Watch this
space in coming months for my impressions of Southern Indiana.
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| Kayaking Along the
Little Blue, Crawford County, IN
Oil, 16 x 16 $295 |
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Farm at Wickliffe |
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Just Another
Country Road, Crawford County
Oil, 15 x 27,
$395 |
June Morning Light, Crawford
County
| OK, here are the first
paintings of the Crawford County Project.
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here!
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