by Jill Stefani Wagner

“River Isle” Oil painting    15 inches x 30 inches     See Pricing ___________________________________________________________________This artwork was created on: CanvasMedium: Sennelier, Gamblin, Utrecht and Richeson Oil Paints [...]

“River Light” Oil painting    15 inches x 30 inches        See Pricing One of the things I’m trying to work on in this series is to not over-think it. I’m really good at over-thinking. Almost as good as I am at over-detailing. Instead of looking at the big picture, I often get caught up in all kinds of unimportant minutiae. “Does this piece fit perfectly with the others in the series?” “What will be the next painting?” “Should I put in all those little flies on the surface of the water?” “What if people don’t like olive green?” You can [...]

“River Path” Oil painting    30 inches x 15 inches each      See Pricing The second piece in my new series of river views. ___________________________________________________________________This artwork was created on: CanvasMedium: Sennelier, Gamblin, Utrecht and Richeson Oil Paints [...]

“River Peace” Oil paintings    30 inches x 15 inches each     See Pricing   With the new year came new painting ideas. I wanted to start on a completely different series, something bigger in size and scope. But I wasn’t quite sure what it would be. As I often do when I am blocked, I started looking through my reference photos, thousands of them. I noticed that my most recent photographs were all of water, specifically rivers. They were obviously speaking to me in some way. So I decided to listen.   I had purchased some large canvases recently and they seemed a perfect foil [...]

“February Light”  pastel 12″ x 18″        See Pricing    The beginning of the year is always exciting: new projects, possibilities, and adventures lay out into the future like a landscape of rolling hills.   I enter competitions, apply to plein air festivals, promote my workshops, arrange commissions, and make travel arrangements. It’s all a little crazy-making and everything is up in the air until I start receiving the responses back from all of the organizations. But, right now I have a pretty good idea of what the year will look like. You can see my schedule below. Please stop by if you are near any [...]

“Parc Offering” plein air oil painting   6 inches x 6 inches      See Pricing We’re on our way back from a lovely couple of weeks in the warmth of Florida. Sometimes you just have to escape Michigan winters. I did a lot of plein air paintings down there and will post them when I get a chance to photograph them properly. But meanwhile, I thought I’d post a few little pieces I did last year when we were down south. I worked on small panels capturing intimate scenes… between dips in the pool, Mai Tais, and sun worshiping.  ;o)   “Parc du Soleil [...]

“Sunday Shadows” plein air oil painting   9 inches x 12 inches      See Pricing I’ve painted this farm 6 or 7 times over the years, but somehow I always come back to it with new eyes…   ___________________________________________________________________This artwork was created on: Linen PanelMedium: Sennelier, Gamblin, Utrecht and Richeson Oil Paints [...]