I was the visiting assistant professor of Chinese at Kenyon College (Ohio) in the late 1980s - early 1990s. I spent the summer of 1988 in Beijing as a visiting professor at the Foreign Languages Normal College. The college was close to some of the wonderful old alleyways (hutong) in Beijing. Some years later I painted this oil painting of one of the nearby alleys. I also had a show in Mount Vernon in 2008 featuring other alleyway paintings of old Beijing that I subsequently made.

Just for fun, I thought I would post a picture of a still life I did in oil back in 1999. This painting is currently on display in the kitchen area of Stone Lion Studio. If I am not mistaken, the brass pot depicted to hold the flowers is actually a spittoon. I guess I needed to "re-purpose" the pot!

If you live in, or are anywhere near Knox County, OH, please come out an visit me this weekend at the  Knox County Barn Tour. I will be at the Randall barn on Sparta Road, and will be the featured "plein air" painter (weather permitting.) To get there, just follow 13 north out of Mount Vernon to Fredricktown, and take a left on Sparta Road. Follow it along a couple miles until you see the barn below on the left. The painting below is a studio version I did recently in oils, but will be working on finishing a colored pencil version on site this Saturday at the Randall barn.

The painting below, "The Road to Wuhan" is one of my featured works for September, 2014 at the new Mohican Valley Artists' Gallery on Main Street, in Loudonville, Ohio. Please stop up and visit us. Currently, there are only weekend hours. Please check the MVA website or Facebook page for more details concerning hours when the gallery is open.

"The Road to Wuhan" by Ed Hayes. 2010. Acrylic on canvas.

My wife and I have enjoyed travelling in the southwestern U.S., and below is a colored pencil drawing (or painting) that I recently did from a photo from one of our recent trips out there. I am not sure what the large plants are in front of the house, but they look like yucca, to me. The style of the house is very typical for that area.

Here is the last "big animal" painting that I will do for the wildlife show at the Wolf Creek Grist Mill in Loudonville coming up next week. It is a cougar. I went back down to the Frame Warehouse in Reynoldsburg, yesterday, via my faster "back roads" route and found a nice frame for it.

This is the most recent bear. I anticipate all that titanium white will be dry well before the last weekend in April, and he can be shown at the wildlife show in Loudonville, as well. This painting is 24x30 inches.

Here is the final frame-up of the grizzly bear. I moved from a green wooden frame to this brownish-orange one. It also is cropped back down to its original size of 22x28 inches. The painting currently is on loan to a friend in Lancaster, OH, but will return for the wildlife show in Loudonville.

I have recently mostly finished the painting above of a grizzly bear. I am hoping to display this at the wildlife show up in Loudonville in April, 2014. It is oil and acrylic on canvas and is 24" x 30". (Note: when fully finished, I will publish an updated pic with frame.)

I will be showing three paintings at the Loudonville, Ohio, library from March 1st, 2014 until March 30th.  I call the show: "Destinations" as the three paintings depict places to go. The first painting is from our visit to Australia some years ago. It is entitled:  "North Stradbroke Island, Australia". This island is not far from Brisbane, Australia. It is oil on canvas.

The second painting is from an even earlier trip to Europe and a cruise along the Rhein River. It is entitled: "Ruine Ehrenfels" not far from Bingen. Also oil on canvas

The last, and most recent painting is a woods scene, and is entitled, simply: "Untitled Woods". This one is acrylic on canvas.

Please stop to see the show if you are in the area. There will be other artists, as well, from the Mohican Valley Artists group.

This is a woodland scene that I created some years ago in acrylic. It is one of my favorites because I feel that the loose style works pretty well. Soon, I will post a more recent attempt to create a similar painting using a similar style.

Below is another painting done some years ago in oil. Both this painting and the one above are part of the permanent collection at Stone Lion Studio and hang in the general gallery during the winter months. The painting below was inspired by a work by the Hoosier artist John Elwood Bundy.

Here is another acrylic painting with a wider road going through the woods. This may well have been inspired by the tour route at Hayes Arboretum, in Richmond, Indiana. This painting hangs at the Stone Lion Studio.

I want to thank Bob Walker and all the artists and visitors at the fine arts venue at the Winterfest in Loudonville for making it a great event. It was a great weekend despite the rain and warmer temperatures that put a damper on the beautiful ice sculptures that were part of the festival.

Below are two more paintings, neither of which were shown at the Winterfest, but I wanted to add. If you want to see either of them in more detail, please click on them for an enlargement.

This painting is called "Gateway" and is done in acrylic. It is currently hanging at the Stone Lion Studio.

 This painting is also done in acrylic and is called "Aussie Seascape". It is also part of the collection at Stone Lion Studio. Both of these paintings date back to the late 90s or early 2000s.

 

"Still life with Pineapple" was executed in oils in February of 1998. This painting also hangs at Stone Lion Studio.