The Flat Iron, Ever Thus

Flat Iron

40x30 oil 2012

(Seems every time I paint this intersection there is some kind of temporary blockage marring the scene, as when you find a cathedral's facade scaffolded for maintenance. Not so this summer; the building anchored the scene in "ever-thusness."

In the Beginning

In the Beginning

40x30 oil 2012

(My grandfather and his three older siblings c.1914, Montana.)

Ancestral photos are great inspirational sources, especially if they are like this one; it seems of the 19th century, before the convention of the grin, which often renders photos more difficult to use as sources of portraiture. 

Recent Norway Paintings

Fisherman's View

Herre River, Herre, Norway. 50x55 oil 2012

(Spring colors and just-budding trees)

Hellestvedt Gaard

Farm near Herre, Norway. 40x50 oil 2012

Old Herre

Herre, Norway 40x30 oil 2012

Skjaertorsdag

Jomfruland, Norway 34x40 oil 2012

Tarn

Jomfruland, Norway 40x50 oil 2012

Twins

Herre, Norway 40x50 oil 2012

Under Helleren

Jøssingfjorden, Rogaland county, Norway. 50x55 oil 2012

Laksetrappa

 Herre, Norway 40x30 oil 2012

(Salmon ladder below Siljantjenn)

Off Season

Kragero, Norway 30x40 oil 2012

Rotvelt

Herre, Norway 30x40 oil 2012

Saltstein

Jomfruland, Norway, 25x40 oil 2012

(featuring silent film starlet Alice Mason)

Stones and Sea

Jomfruland, Norway, 30x40 oil 2012

Kragero's Appendix 

Kragero, Norway, 40x50 oil 2012