Last Sighting - and others

"Last sighting"

11x14" acrylic on canvas

Jenny Niemeyer 2013

Commissioned work

"Desert dreams"

12x12' acrylic on canvas

Jenny Niemeyer 2013

SOLD

"Hay, drying"

8x10" acrylic on masonite

Jenny Niemeyer 2013

SOLD

"Long grass prairie"

20 3/4 x 11 1/2" acrylic on particle board

My husband won't let me sell this one! Well, I guess everything has it's price....

"Cemetery in Cerrillos, NM"

5x7" acrylic on canvas

Jenny Niemeyer 2013

I painted this in the plein air style while on a recent trip to New Mexico - one of my favorite places!

One of my traveling companions, who had taken a horseback ride up past this little cemetery, bought this from me as a memento of our trip. I'd love to hear from anyone who paints plein air with acrylics! It's kind of hard to keep them from drying out.

"Cerrillos sagebrush"

5x7" acrylic on canvas

Jenny Niemeyer 2013

I had some paint left over after I did "Cemetery in Cerrillos, NM," so I did this. Sometimes the quick, accidental paintings are my favorites.

"Judith's heaven"

8x10" acrylic on canvas

Jenny Niemeyer 2013

Judith was a wild wolf that I'd known personally since 2007. She had avoided harm until October 2013 when a hunter in Idaho shot her and her puppy. Don't ask me why. Some things in this world make no sense. Judith can frolick to her heart's content in the hereafter. There's no one to bother her now.

"Tired raven"
12x12" acrylic on canvas
Jenny Niemeyer 2013
SOLD

"The culprit"

"Barred owl (1)"

16x20" acrylic on canvas

Jenny Niemeyer 2013

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The Ghost in the Canyon

A lot of wolves have been killed in the quest to bring them back to parts of their former range in the West. There's more bad news in store for them as the federal government washes its hands of wolf recovery. 

"The ghost in the canyon."

Jenny Niemeyer 2013

9x12" acrylic on canvas

$105.00

SOLD

The Dust Bowl house in Cimarron County, OK

I have two photographs taken in the Oklahoma panhandle last year during my big cross-country car trip. I'm doing a series of interpretations from them and I'll post them here. Did you see Ken Burns' PBS special on the Dust Bowl? This is where he did a lot of filming. Thanks for visiting my gallery!

Dust Bowl leftover II"
Jenny Niemeyer © 2013
12x12" acrylic on canvas
$120.00

I love the desert.

Any desert is beautiful in its purity of function. I paint the way I feel about them rather than just what I see.

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"Distant rim rock"

Jenny Niemeyer, 2013

9"x12" acrylic on canvas

$85.00

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"Sagebrush sea"

Jenny Niemeyer, 2013

9"x12" acrylic on canvas

$85.00

Miniature scenes from the back roads....

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"Dust Bowl leftover"

2"x2" acrylic on canvas

Jenny Niemeyer 2013

I made a cross-country trip last year and drove through the Oklahoma panhandle. The scars from the Dust Bowl are still plain to see. I think miniature paintings are like memories; glimpses that you go around thinking about, and their size makes them even more alluring.

Rivers, streams and signs of visitors....

"Wolf Prints in a Streambed"
Jenny Niemeyer © 2009
3 1/4x10 1/2"
 acrylic/collage on wood
$65.00

"Following the River"
Jenny Niemeyer © 2009
2 1/2x13"
acrylic/collage on wood
$65.00

If you look closely, riverbeds and streambeds often show the tracks of the animals that have explored them or followed their course. I've done quite a few of these on wood (collected from my studio project last year.) Enjoy, and look closely the next time you are next to a stream! The colors are much better in real life (everyone says this, no?) They contain a few pieces of broken mirror and I've used some metallic/pearl paint to mimick the shimmer of water. They hang vertically by eyehooks and a small chain. I've also done some that are quite large with lots of broken mirror.

Can you feel the colors?

When you are in the West, you find yourself feeling color in the landscape rather than just seeing it.

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"Bison in Yellowstone Winter"
Jenny Niemeyer © 2013
acrylic on canvas 12x9"
$85.00

"High Desert Storm"

Jenny Niemeyer © 2013

acrylic on canvas 12x9"

$85.00

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"Plowed Fields"

Jenny Niemeyer © 2013

acrylic on canvas 8x8"

$85.00

"Arizona in the Spring"

Jenny Niemeyer © 2013

acrylic on canvas 5x7"

$65.00

"Sonoma road"
Jenny Niemeyer © 2013
acrylic on canvas 6x6"
$65.00