I'm Oil Painting Again

When I say I'm oil painting again, I mean I haven't painted with oils for about 50 years or so.  Way back then I became frustrated with oil painting.  I would do a painting but it would never look as good as I thought it should.  The last oil painting I did was when I was about 18 years old.  It was a portrait of my girl friend at the time.  She married someone else.  I wonder if that's why I stopped oil painting....hmmmm.

The first oil painting I did after all those years is the one you see here.  My lovely daughter, Kristen, asked me to paint this picture while my wife and I were visiting her family in Washington last September.  She had purchased the canvas and wanted to know what medium I wanted to paint it in.  I had been thinking about getting started in oils again, so we went out a bought a small kit with a few colors and a few brushes.  Three days later Kristen had a new painting for her house.  She wanted to put it above the mantle you see above my head, but I think she has since put it in the master bedroom.  I'll bet she needs another painting for the mantle.

Upon returning home I went to work building an easle to paint on.  When the amazingly beautiful and functional easle was completed, I purchased some oil paints and brushes and started some smaller landscape paintings.  This meadow is the first one I painted.  It is 9"x12".  I am selling it for $135.00 unframed.

I have always loved paintings and photos of old barns so I collected a bunch of reference and painted a couple of small ones.  This painting is also 9:x12".  I am selling it for $135.00 unframed also.

Here is another small painting of an old barn with large trees and grasses.  This scene reminds me of late summer.  This painting is 11"x14".  I am selling it for $190.00 unframed.