FIRST DAY

                                                    (Sold) "FIRST DAY"
                                                             6X6 oil on panel

It was early morning and still dark and yet! like clockwork, one can hear the school bus rumbling somewhere in the neighborhood.   It was the signal of the end of summer and the beginning of a school year.   There were going to be new friends, teachers, games and a new beginning to that very first day.   

"FIRST DAY BACK"

Last year in Minnesota I kept spotting yellow school buses that jumped out at me. The contrast of dark tree backgrounds and the glare of snow was exactly my kind of subject.  It gave me the mood and the challenge to record a memory and the feeling of "First Day Back". 6x8 by 2" deep box original oil painting: $140 (SOLD)

"SCHOOL DAY" original oil painting

Just a few day's ago my sons wife Jessica drove me around while in Minnesota on what turned out to be the biggest snow storm to hit.  My camera at the ready I clicked away at everything.  This is a school bus making its way, picking up kids and plowing through feet of snow on some small streets that where buried and where the snow plow's don't go.  This painting is an 8x6" oil on Birch wood mounted to a varnished box: (Sold)