Saturday, June 21, 2014

Plein Air– Loveland

Vanishing View
12" x 16", Oil on Canvas
06/2014

The view of downtown Loveland from the town square looking across the railroad tracks is about the change dramatically. Construction work is beginning on the new Loveland Station mixed-use development on the site of the building in the foreground. It will be replaced with a four story apartment and retail building, you should just be able to see the old school building above the new construction.

Plein Air– Museum Center

View East, Across OTR
9" x 12", Oil on Canvas Panel
06/2014

This is the view from the front porch of the Museum Center (Union Terminal) across the basin of Cincinnati, looking toward Mt. Adams. The buildings of Over-the-Rhein, Music Hall, etc. create the colorful masses among the trees. The Monastery and Celestial atop Mt. Adams are silhouetted against the sky.

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Plein Air– DeSales Corner

Woodburn toward DeSales Corner
12" x 16", Oil on Canvas
06/2014

The view up Woodburn Avenue toward the intersection with Madison Avenue and St. Francis DeSales church. The DeSales neighborhood in Cincinnati is rapidly redeveloping. Many vacant store fronts and apartments are now occupied and it's becoming a lively spot in town.

Plein Air– Oakley Square

Oakley Square
12" x 16", Oil on Canvas
05/2014

I missed posting this painting in order. It shows the view from the traffic island in the middle of the Madison Road. Looking Northeast, the newly refurbished square is centered in the painting.

Plein Air– Covington Historic District

Alongside the Roebling
9" x 12", Oil on Canvas Panel
06/2014

Threatening rain sent me seeking cover when SWOPA visited the Covington Historic District and that lead me to this view of Cincinnati. Huddling under the pedestrian stairs from Covington Landing to the Roebling Suspension Bridge, I stayed out of the wet and had this acute view of the bridge and the city across the river.

Plein Air– Lebanon

The Golden Lamb
12" x 16", Oil on Canvas
05/2014

The oldest continuously operating business in the state of Ohio, The Golden Lamb has hosted numerous important personages since it's opening in 1803. Located on the city "square" and just across the street from Warren County Courthouse in Lebanon.

Fine dinning and an overnight stay are still available: The Golden Lamb

Temple of Love

Temple of Love
12" x 16", Oil on Canvas
05/2014

The completed commissioned painting of the "Temple of Love" in Mt. Storm Park, Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio.


The former water tower for the Robert Bowler estate that occupied this brow of the hill in the Clifton suburb of Cincinnati. It and the former wine/root cellar are all that remain of one of the grand estates of the city.

For more information on the establishing of Mt. Storm Park you can go here: Digging Cincinnati History: Mount Storm

Plein Air– Ohio Presidential Site

William Henry Harrison Memorial
9" x 12", Oil on Canvas Panel
05/2014

SWOPA visited North Bend, Ohio and the burial site of the first President from our state. Previously buried in the family cemetery up the hill, Harrison and his near relatives were reinterred in the crypt under this monument when it was constructed in 1919.