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The street.

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I painted this on something called "Aquabord", a museum-quality board with a specially coated surface that is meant for watercolor painting.

This is a hardboard panel, 1/8" thick, 5 x 7. It was a bit of an experiment in materials and techniques. I added some additional light graphite marks.

Frankly, I'm not sure what I think of the surface or the way it handles the paint, but the end result is pleasing enough. The packaging says you don't need to cover the painting with glass, and that the final result is ready to frame.

So, if you're into street scenes of mediocre sentimentality and not too much visual noise, this is your painting.

Price: $20

Labels: budget, buildings, paintings, watercolor

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Lighthouse.

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I was commissioned to create a painting based on the lighthouse logo of Brady Consulting, a Minnesota-based company from the Minneapolis area.

Materials: Acrylic on heavy rag paper
Price: SOLD

Labels: buildings, commissioned, ships

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Red Gothic Barn.

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There is a wonderful Gothic-roofed red barn at my grandfather's farm. I've taken many photographs of it.

I painted this on a cool autumn day, setting up my easel and drawing board in front of the barn amidst some very annoying flies.

But it was still a lot of fun to paint.

Materials: Oil paint and oil pastel on heavy gesso-covered cotton rag paper
Size: 11" X 15"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $65

Labels: buildings, north dakota, paintings

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Porch Swing.

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I have always hoped that someday, if I ever had my own house, it would have a porch on it. A porch swing would be even better. But I'd take a porch.

I really want a porch.

Anyway.

This watercolor painting was done as an illustration for someone. It's based on a photo I took of a house in Park River, North Dakota. I knew I needed an image of a house with a porch swing, since the illustration had to show that. When I drove through Park River and caught sight of the perfect porch, I knew I had to stop.

Materials: Watercolor and charcoal on heavy rag paper
Size: 11" X 15"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $65

Labels: buildings, illustrations, watercolor

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Strange Old House.

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I like to draw strange houses.

I don't know what else to tell you about this painting.

Obviously, it's a strange house.

Materials: Acrylic painting on unbleached heavy cotton rag paper
Size: approx. 11" X 12"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $40

Labels: buildings, illustrations, paintings, whimsical

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Old Barns.

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These are the same buildings as seen in this print, painted while outside in front of the buildings, during a smoky autumn day.

This was a bit of an experiment, using oil paint on gesso-covered paper. I found a lot of pleasure in pushing the paint around and worrying less about details as opposed to blocked areas of color or texture.

Materials: Oil paint and oil pastels on heavy cotton rag paper
Size: 11" X 14"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $65

Labels: buildings, north dakota, paintings

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House Church.

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This mixed media painting was done for a charity event in which artists were asked to donate work for a silent auction.

I was on the waning end of my house-drawing motif, which you can see sprinkled throughout my work.

Materials: Charcoal, gesso, acrylic on masonite
Price: SOLD

Labels: buildings, mixed media, religious, sold, whimsical

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Hampden Main Street (back then).

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This is a watercolor I did for the Hampden Centennial in 2004. I sold prints of it; the original is actually "owned" by my mother who insists on keeping it.

The image is based on an old photograph of the main street, circa 1904.

Materials: Watercolor on paper
Price: SOLD

Labels: buildings, north dakota, sold, watercolor

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Kati's House.

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I love architecture and drawing buildings, which ended up being a great combination during a trip to Germany.

The homes from southern Germany had the wonderful half-timbers and traditional elements that I only see here in North Dakota at...Super 8 hotels.

Which is completely sad.

It's much better to go to Germany and see the real thing.

Materials: Acrylic painting on paper
Size: 7" X 10.5"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat; let me chose print number from series
Price: $50

Labels: buildings, paintings

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Yellow Doorway.

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During a class in which I was trying to get my students to not spend inordinate amounts of time on detailed under-drawings that would be quickly covered by paint, I decided to show instead of tell.

This was the resulting painting, one in which I painted straight on the canvas board and did not layout any drawing or guide beneath. I wanted them to experience painting in an almost sketch-like manner.

Materials: Acrylic on canvas board
Size: 11" X 14"
Other: Shipped with simple wood frame, no glass covering
Price: $65

Labels: buildings, paintings

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Alone.

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An exchange student asked me to paint an imaginary place that I would like to be.

The first thing that came to mind was the ballroom scene from Disney's Beauty and the Beast, which, yes, is dorky.

But I loved the high ceilings and the huge windows and the darkness outside -- the space of the place -- so I tried to come up with something like that. Except, since I am not a dancer, I put a person, alone, playing a grand piano in the middle of the huge room.

I think it would sound fabulous.

Materials: Acrylic painting on heavy rag paper
Size: approx. 15" X 22"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $65

Labels: buildings, illustrations, paintings, whimsical

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April's Loss.

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I made this print after the death of a cousin who was, from what I understand and know and have come to learn, an amazing person.

I wanted to use symbolism to convey the details of life and family and hope, and I used the house motif that I was drawing at the time to do this.

Materials: Lithograph, hand-colored with watercolors (slight variations from hand-coloring process are to be expected); part of a series
Size: approx. 11" X 14"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat; let me chose print number from series
Price: $40

Labels: buildings, prints, watercolor, whimsical

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Almost a New Day.

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In college, the printmaking class I was in agreed to do a print trade with a university from another state. The theme was the year 2000, or "millennium."

I'm still a little bitter that we never got our prints trades back from that university, but it was a great way to get some original prints from my classmates.

I was in a phase where I was drawing houses with Gothic windows and odd angles, and I chose to use these houses to illustrate the idea that a new day was dawning i.e. the Bible says a day is as a 1000 years, so....

Materials: Lithograph; part of a series
Size: approx. 11" X 14"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat; let me chose print number from series
Price: $40

Labels: buildings, prints, whimsical

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Grandpa's Farm.

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This is an image of my the farm my grandfather grew up on, done as an etching.

I stood out in the cold autumn air and held a small zinc plate coated with wax, drawing into the wax with a stylus. I had to draw the scene backwards from what I was seeing so that it would show up correctly when printed.

The "trees" in the background were created by layering cheesecloth and pressing it into the wax. The woven pattern of the loose cloth creates an interesting texture, as do the slight variations from the etching process.

Materials: Etching; part of a series
Size: approx. 11" X 14"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat; let me chose print number from series
Price: $40

Labels: buildings, landscapes, prints

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Sketch: Chicken Coop.

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You can read more about this sketch here.

Materials: Watercolor, paper
Size: 6"X6"
Other: Comes without frame or mat
Price: SOLD

Labels: budget, buildings, nature, north dakota, paintings, watercolor

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City park.

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This painting is part of my growing fascination for the extremely vertical layout.

Using thick (partly dried) paint, and scrubbing techniques that are a little hard on my brush, I wanted to create a kind of hazy softness to the hard-edge city buildings. And then, at the bottom of all this vertical, include a little green.

The city park.

A little patch of paradise in the middle of concrete and steel canyons.

Materials: Acrylic paint on heavy rag paper
Size: 3" X 13.5"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $60

Labels: buildings, landscapes, paintings, whimsical

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Goodbye Church

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Some people take this image to be a negative statement on church or religion or the state of pastors.

That was not my intention, though the name, "Goodbye Church", suggests a leaving.

At the time (I painted this back in 2002), I was thinking about things I'd like to leave behind in my life in regards to "religiousity" and habit that seemed to block the view of the cross.

In this painting, the cross is atop the steeple, and the figure can't see it until he steps out of the shadow of the building and is far enough away, outside, to look up.

Step out of the shadow, and look up.

Materials: Oil paint on masonite board
Size: 16.5" X 21"
Other: Shipped with plain wood frame
Price: $200

Labels: buildings, figurative, illustrations, paintings, religious

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The Great Cathedral in Leon.

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This is a painting of part of the Great Cathedral in Leon, Nicaragua.

I've had the privilege of visiting there in the past few years, through missions trips. You can read more about that here. I've written more about my experiences here.

If you'd like to read about why I chose this subject matter, I discuss that in a blog post here.

However, if you're more interested in learning about the specifics and step-by-step methods that I went through to arrive at the final painting you see, you might want to check out this post on my art blog where I take you through it.

Materials: Acrylic paint on BFK Rives paper
Size: 15" x 22.5"
Other: Painting is sold and shipped unframed, no mat.
Price: $200

Labels: buildings, landscapes, paintings

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Basilica Barn

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The lofty title of a basilica probably shouldn't go to a farm building that was used to house sheep, and then pigs, in its early years, but the building always reminded me exactly of the basilica floor plan.

Inside, the barn had three "aisles" made up of a main walk-way and side rows of stalls. The front didn't have the usual three doors of a basilica, but the back did. And the front, with its extended floor leve, reminded me of the grand entrances of those early chruches.

I use the past tense to describe this building because, sadly, the huge storm on June 19, 2005 brought the building that my grandfather grew up with to its knees, it's weathered gray wood and slight lean to the east unable to stand winds over 100 mph. Still, I've often drawn and painted it, more than any other farm building, so it is well documented and not soon forgotten.

Materials: Oil on canvas
Size: 1' x 2'
Price: Sold

Labels: buildings, landscapes, north dakota, paintings, sold

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Evening Lighthouse

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I may be from the very land-locked state of North Dakota, but that doesn't mean I can't dream a little bit.

I certainly have enjoyed my trips to the ocean, though I haven only seen lighthouses from a great distance. The sound of the waves, the smell of the marine life - it all makes me appreciate the power and beauty of other places.

This painting captures the abundance of water at the oceans edge. The water rushing about at the base of the rocks, the water mist in the air, and the fog all combine to make subject matter begging to be captured in water as well.

Avoiding fussy brushing, I used quick and simple washes over the top of loose charcoal line-work. I let the paint run and blur and did nothing to stop the "happy accidents" that watercolor creates best. Since I often paint on a verticla surface, you see the water patterns in the paint as water ran to the base of the painting and onto the floor.

The nice thing about working with charcoal under watercolor is that the charcoal mixes with the paint and creates soft edges and smudgy gray areas. If that's not what I wanted it would be a disaster, but for this particular painting, the combination of hard and soft edges seemed perfect for a building built near the water meant to warn ships of sharp rocks.

Materials: Watercolor and charcoal on paper
Size: 7.5" x 11.25"
Other: Painting is sold and shipped unframed, no mat.
Price: $60

Labels: buildings, landscapes, paintings, watercolor

The street.

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Lighthouse.

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Red Gothic Barn.

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Porch Swing.

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Strange Old House.

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Old Barns.

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House Church.

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Hampden Main Street (back then).

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Kati's House.

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Yellow Doorway.

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Alone.

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April's Loss.

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Almost a New Day.

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Grandpa's Farm.

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Sketch: Chicken Coop.

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City park.

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Goodbye Church

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The Great Cathedral in Leon.

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Basilica Barn

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Evening Lighthouse

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