Studio space

My family and I just recently moved into our new place, and I finally got the studio unpacked and set up.  Just enough room for storage and wall space to hang wet paintings.

Landscape sketches

Charcoal/Graphite on Toned paper
6 x 9"

Maplewood State Park, MN sketch

Plein air studies

 Overlooking the Missouri River near Bismarck,ND
6 x 9" oil on panel

Minnesota country landscape outside Fergus Falls, MN
6 x 9" oil on panel

Sketch for "Broken"

Sketch for "Broken"
12 x 9
oil on canvas
email for purchase-  ijohnsfineart@gmail.com

"Morning Glow" -Sold

"Morning Glow"
18 x 24
oil on canvas
$1100
Underbrush Gallery, Fargo,ND

"Harvest Glow sketch" -Sold

Sketch for larger painting.
"Harvest Glow sketch"
 8 x 8
oil on canvas

Toned Sketch by Strathmore (400 series)

I was given some test samples of the the Strathmore 400 series Sketch paper.  Here are some sketches on both the "Tan" and the "Toned Gray" colored paper.

 Artist Son
(Tan)

Minnesota Lake
(Grey Tone)

 

"Capitol Building" Boise,ID

I try to fit in a sketch each day, whether it's from life or a photo I've taken.  Detail of a photo that I took earlier this summer in Boise,ID.
-Boise,ID Capital Building

"Early Bird"

"Early Bird" 
 18 x 24
 oil on panel 
  "First Place Gold Medal @ Nampa Festival of the Arts -Nampa,ID
 For price contact Underbrush Gallery, Fargo,ND

Hyalite Reservoir,MT

My family's last stop on our summer vacation, camping on Hyalite Reservoir,MT.  This was such a spectacular spot, and a purely unbelievable place to get in one last color study before heading back to the "plains".  We'll be back next summer for sure!

First Place Gold Award- Nampa Festival of the Arts

My painting "Early Bird" won the First Place Gold Award at the Nampa,ID Festival of the Arts.
"Early Bird"  -August 2012
 18 x 24"
 oil on panel
contact Underbrush Gallery Fargo,ND for price

"Sunrise over Boise,ID" ~Sold

Plein air study over Boise,ID.  This photo was taken a few minutes before I finished the painting.
6 x 9"  oil on panel  Aug-2012

Corks and Canvas 2012

2012 Fargo,ND Corks and Canvas

NDSU Billboard award winner!

A big thanks to NDSU for a wonderful opportunity.  This is located in downtown Fargo,ND, and it's on the same block as The Plains Art Museum. (painting sold)

"Mango" ~sold

"Mango"  5x7 oil on panel 

Plein air

Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful morning. Plein air study, Red River, 8x10 oil
 Sold

"Misty morning"

"Misty morning" study oil 9x12   $300 Sold

Plein air sketch "The Meadows"

I got in a quick plein air sketch today of The Meadows golf course Moorhead,MN. 9x12 oil $300

"Peonies Reflection"

"Peonies Reflection" 14 x 11 oil on panel
Collection the Artist

"Little Black Dress"

oil on panel 30 x 24.
Sold

Sold

"A quiet lunch" -sold

detail "A quiet lunch" 18x24 oil on panel

"Garlic kisses"

"Garlic Kisses" 9 x 12" oil on panel
email for price

"tea with lemon"

"tea with lemon" 12 x 24" oil on panel
email for price

Art is Changing

"Two Mangos in Pear"

"Two Mangos in Pear" 10 x 20 oil on panel.
email for price
Detail
Detail

Painting study "Dream the Beautiful"

 "Dream the Beautiful" 11x14 oil on canvas
email for price

Drawing for "Dream the beautiful" ~Sold

charcoal, graphite on paper 16x20

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change" Gautama Siddhatha

Painting (2011)

"Figure study" oil on canvas 14x11.

Drawing (2011)

"Bath time" graphite on paper 8.5 x 5.5
Collection the Artist

Drawing (2011)

"Bust of a child" graphite on paper 10x8"

"All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own." -John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"A Lazy Confidence" ~sold

"A lazy confidence" charcoal on paper 20x16