This is perhaps the first somehwat successful painting I've done entirely from imagination. I used some ideas from the copies I did of Hudson River paintings, because I love those wending rivers and distant mountains.

Far River

17 3/4"x14"

Oil on canvas

The painting below was done after a trip to the Chicago Botanical Gardens. This is as close as I can get to a "vista" at this time, in flat old Chicago. Though at first I didn't care for the painting because it's so "bright," I've lately come to like it - maybe because it's among the most successful of my pictures that aren't copies of someone else's work.

Botanical Gardens I

24"x20"

Oil on canvas