Day 16 : An Oil a Day 30 Day Challenge . . .

Day 16 : Seward July

Yeah, I took a break.

Not that I wanted to.

It was kind of forced on me by first my sinuses and then my intestines.

I won't go into more than that.

So.

Here I start in once again at Day 16 with a quick and light summer scene.

From the Seward, Nebraska Airport, I can see a far off farm.

Looking so clean and tidy and bright from a mile off,

sultry summer clouds building and dying, building and dying.

Milo is yellow/green with heads ready to turn rust soon.

Details : 6"x6"
Oil on canvas

Day 8 : An Oil a Day 30 Day Challenge . . .

Day 8 : Two Farms

If no one is impressed but me that I've stuck with my 30 Day Challenge, 

then hooray for me!

I'm starting the second full week of painting an oil painting a day and I cannot believe how energizing and affirming this is.

Especially when I posted Day 7 on my Facebook page and got 59 'likes'.

More 'likes' than I got on my birthday, I think =-D

Anyway.

This painting is another simple prairie landscape with some unexpected detail.

If you look closely, you can see that this is a painting of Two Farms

but not the traditional farm.

This is a painting of wind turbines that are cropping up all over the central states.

When I look at the maps for the amount of wind in the central US,

the highest amounts of wind are concentrated from Texas northward through North Dakota and Minnesota and the highest areas are through Iowa.

Traveling between Omaha and DesMoines is jaw-dropping.

One day I quit counting at over 100 near Walnut, Iowa.

This developing source of power is having serious consequences and affecting the true farming communities and farmers in ways not imagined.

So here you have Two Farms.

Non-traditional.

Details : Oil on canvas

12"x24"