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Western Landscape Series

Realistic Art Prints:
Seascapes and Beaches  

Realistic Art Prints:
Midwestern Lakes series

Realistic Paintings:
Western Landscapes  

Realistic Paintings:
Seascapes & Beaches

Realistic Paintings:
Midwestern Lakes

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Realistic Art for Impact

Realistic art allows me to create a sense of being involved it the art in my paintings.  The crisp imagery and small bits of detail add the impression to observers that these are real places, places of light, shadow and warmth that invite the viewer to participate.

People frequently ask me where these places are at, especially the seascape paintings, as sand dunes and beaches can have a universal feel. They want to know if I have captured some place that they have been. However, the final painting is an imaginary creation. These realistic seascape paintings of dunes and beaches are taken mostly from a composite of photos I've taken over my years of travel, from the Texas coast to the great dunes of Western Michigan. The old buildings and porches are borrowed form other photos and drawings, mostly my own, but anything that catches my imagination will work.  In some, the foregrounds are complex interiors with hints of something else going on in the room.  In others you see mostly the seascape painting itself with just a suggestion of the human hand.  Either way, the feeling that you could walk right into the finished piece is powerful. This is why I love egg tempera paint, because it's ability to capture detail enhances the illusions I create.  The crisp clarity of the paint is perfect for the three dimensional feelings I strive for, and it also captures the delicate highlights that add greatly to the warm light I try to capture in each piece.

I'm particularly drawn to older buildings and interiors, wooden frameworks that have been worn by time, and impart a unique character to my realistic art, whether of seascapes, landscapes or river and lake scenes from the Midwest.  My realistic paintings, (in this case, the seascape paintings ) are invitations to be there.  Anything I can add to the illusion of actual places and complete the invitation is what I look for when selecting the subjects I choose to paint.