Flying Presedent
Water Spout Landscape
The train paintings are about desire, dreams, ambition, love and longing, this painting does all of that, with the use of color and impermanent qualities. There are elements of my more realistic work, but also elements of the more abstract. In this, it all came together to make what I consider to be a very successful painting.
Passing at Fostoria
This painting is slightly older than the more abstract paintings I've been doing recently, but the expression is still there. In a painting, movement is key, whether you're painting trains or flowers blowing in a slight breeze.
West Virginia pick-nick
This painting was a bit of an experiment, another attempt at doing something new and being abstract. Like "Untitled Reading" this painting has a human element not seen in most of my earlier work. The two girls lounge in the reeds by a stream that flows by their West Virginia home town, as a massive Y6b steam engine works a mine run. The girls are teenagers, on the brink of woman-hood... and what's in the bottle they're drinking? Could the girl in red be posing for the engineer just a little bit?
Untitled Reading 30"x40"
This painting was a bit of an experiment, an attempt at being more abstract. There is something else of interest in this painting, and that is the girl on the porch. She is based on a girl painted by Balthus, a modernist painter who has always been a favorite of mine. She watches the train with a bit of board detachment as the Reading T1 steams by her home with a freight.
Some Town I Don't Recall
This Painting is part of a series, illustrating a story that I am writing about a romance that starts on a train. The painting itself was heavily influenced by the late O. Winston Link, a photographer that captured some of the most famous images trains in history. He was a master of night photography, and his images have inspired me for years.
The steam locomotive steams through a depot around midnight, but it does not stop. Most people on the train and in the town are asleep. The engine is supposed to represent an Atlantic Cost Line 4-8-4, although it is not totally accurate in every detail.
I enjoyed working on this painting because it proved to be a good study of light and shadow.
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