25th Wedding Anniversary commission.
36x18 oil on canvas
This piece was painted for an exhibition at the Polish Center of Wisconsin. In the background is the Polish Flag!
Painted at the Jefferson County Fair during the Jefferson Plein Air Competition.
11x14 oil
Painted during the 2022 Bluff Strokes plein air competition in Dubuque, IA
24x20 oil on canvas. Grant Park, Milwaukee, WI.
Winner of Best in Show in the 2021 “Alive in the Arts” exhibition at the Plymouth Arts Center, Plymouth, WI. and 1st Place Award in the 2021 Rogues Artists Show “Rouges on the Road” exhibit, Hartford, WI.
oil 20x16
16x36, oil
This is a scene from Lynn Nature Preserve located in the Town of Farmington, WI. As part of my residency for ArtServancy I was assigned this property to use as my own for a year of plein air painting. When I got there, however, the tall grasses with no pathways deterred me! I switched to another property (see my ArtServancy page) but not before I took photos from which I have done several paintings.
28x22 oil on canvas
Purchased for the Permanent Collection of the Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Big Boy is the largest operating steam locomotive engine in the world. It's pictured here at its home base in Montana. Winner of a “Grohmann Award” at the LMA show “artWorks” at the Grohmann Museum”, Milwaukee, WI.
12x16 oil
Painted during the 2022 Bluff Strokes plein air competition. This is the view of the Mississippi River from the Julien Dubuque Monument.
18x14 oil
Painted during a windy and cold day in Dubuque, IA during the Bluff Strokes plein air competition.
20x16 oil on canvas
14x11 oil on canvas
10x8 oil on canvas
14x11 oil on canvas
20x16 oil on canvas
Painted in New Berlin, WI
Winner of Honorable Mention, New Berlin Plein Air Competition, 2018
22 x 28 oil on canvas
“Artist’s Point” in Grand Marais, Minnesota.
12x16 oil on canvas
A tree against a wall at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville Virginia.
Juried into the "GALEX 52 National Exhibition and Competition", Galesburg. Ill 2018
Jerry Goldstein Foundation Artist Merit and Achievement Award, 2018
16 x 20 oil on canvas
The Shenandoah Mountains in Virginia.
Honorable Mention, League of Milwaukee Artists 2017 Winter Show
Juried into "The Modern Landscape" at Redline Gallery, Milwaukee, 2018
12x16 oil
Painted at Christopher’s Gardens in Sheboygan, WI
16x12 oil
Honorable Mention, “First Brush of Spring” plein air event in New Harmony, IN.
Painted around a campfire with 3 fellow plein air artists (two of whom were painting me painting!) It reminded me of being young and having fun around a fire with friends!
20x10 oil
Painted during the 2021 Paint the Point competition in Mineral Point, WI. On one of the hottest days of the summer, I parked my car by the side of a hot asphalt road. The dramatic telephone poles mirror the slope of the hill with its August corn (and my rivulets of perspiration!)
11x14 Oil on canvas
These buoys cross the Rock River in Jefferson, WI. This was a “Quick Paint” for the competition, finished in 2 hours. I love the contrast of the orange with the blue-green water!
Painted at Plum Bottom Gallery and available at
www. plumbottomgallery.com
14x18 oil
Painted during the 2021 Paint the Point competition in Mineral Point, WI
14x18 oil on canvas panel SOLD
Painted during “The First Brush of Spring” plein air painting event in New Harmony, IN. I loved the eerie glow coming from this house but plein air painters need to work quickly! About 2 hours in, and before I was quite finished they turned off the lights!
SOLD 16x12 oil on canvas panel
Painted for the Waukesha Plein Air Competition. 2nd Place Award.
When searching downtown for a subject I noticed the sign at the Civic Theater which says “PIX” had only the P lit up. I thought that was funny, and I also thought-”what a challenge to paint neon!” It was hard but I think it worked!
16x12 oil on canvas panel
I was intrigued by the way the light was shining on this building near the railroad tracks. I was sure on the wrong side when a train came through! By the sound of it’s horn, I don’t think the train engineer thought much of my painting!
16x12 oil on canvas SOLD
Painted at “Michael’s Garden” in Sheboygan, WI
Available at Plum Bottom Gallery https://plumbottomgallery.com/collections/tom-smith
oil 10x20
11x14 oil on canvas
Painted at “Michael’s Garden” in Sheboygan, WI
11x14 oil on canvas
Painted during the 2020 Paint the Point plein air event in Mineral Point, WI
When I approached the couple who lived in this funky house and mentioned painting it I was told to “Stop right there”! It was COVID time after all-but what he really wanted nothing to do with was changing the color of the house! When I explained that “No” I wanted to do a painting OF the house they both became very friendly and approved the idea immediately!
Available at Plum Bottom Gallery https://plumbottomgallery.com/collections/tom-smith
16x12 oil on canvas
Painted during the 2020 “Paint the Point” plein air event in Mineral Point, WI.
12x16 oil on canvas
Painted during the 2019 Cedarburg, WI Plein Air Competition
14x11 oil on canvas
Port Washington, Wisconsin.
Second Place winner, Cedarburg Plein Air Competition, 2017.
11x14, oil on canvas
This was my first time to head out and do a plein air painting since the stay at home orders in 2020. I was going to name it “Spring Virus” but that seemed too morbid! It was painted at Hoyt Park in Wauwatosa, WI.
Available at Plum Bottom Gallery https://plumbottomgallery.com/collections/tom-smith
12x16 oil on canvas
Painted during the 2019 West Bend Plein Air Competition
Available at Plum Bottom Gallery https://plumbottomgallery.com/collections/tom-smith
oil on canvas 9x12
The quick paint during the 2019 Paint the Point plein air competition in Mineral Point, WI. I call this “Pulling a Deke” because the inspiration for the technique I used comes from one of my favorite artists, DK Palechek.
8x10 oil on canvas
Available at https://plumbottomgallery.com/collections/tom-smith
The sunrise over Menomonie Lake in 6 degrees below zero weather, April 2018!
11x14 oil
Painted from a photo taken in 2021 outside Harmonie State Park in Indiana. I was intrigued by the mysterious fire next to the old barn. Why was it burning?
22x28 oil on canvas. At the Virginia Arboretum. While visiting our son he took us to this enchanted grove of gingko trees. It was positively glowing!
18x 24 oil on canvas
SOLD
Oil on Canvas
11x14
Inspired by a photo taken at Spirit Lake Preserve.
16x20 oil on canvas panel.
Painted during the first wave of the COVID 19 Pandemic, this piece represents the solitude of isolation but also the peace I could find through my work painting.
Available at Plum Bottom Gallery https://plumbottomgallery.com/collections/tom-smith
oil on canvas
10x8
When we’re camping in Door County in one of our beautiful state parks, I love to look at the changing light through the trees.
18x14 oil on canvas
I began painting these beautiful lilies in a Wauwatosa garden. As the sky began to darken I quickly packed up, but by the time I got to my car I was pelted with rain! Needless to say this was finished in the studio!
Available at Plum Bottom Gallery https://plumbottomgallery.com/collections/tom-smith
oil on canvas, 20x20
This was painted on commission from the client’s photo, not available
This is my Father and Mother inlaw-Rich and Doris Sheridan. It was painted for Rich’s 90th birthday!
NFS
11 x 14 oil on panel
A view from the road to Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
15x30 oil on canvas SOLD
Winner of Best in Show, 2020 Rogues Artists Group show: “Art in so Many Words”
20x16 oil on canvas
Late Afternoon at Point Beach State Park, Wisconsin.
Available at Plum Bottom Gallery https://plumbottomgallery.com/collections/tom-smith
11x14 oil on canvas SOLD
12x9 oil on canvas panel
Painted from a photo taken while camping at Point Beach State Park. The glow of the mysterious blue light and the tiki torch said “mystery” to me.
12x9, casein on panel
Available at https://plumbottomgallery.com/collections/tom-smith
Painted from a photo taken at Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia, where my son works.
24x18, oil
An afternoon path at Mauthe Lake State Park, Wisconsin. Mauthe Lake is one of our favorite places to camp. This is from a photo I took on a crisp Autumn hike around the lake. I like to use color to enhance the feel of a landscape, as you can tell in this painting!
8x10, oil
Birch trees in Door County, WI
10x8, oil
Painted from a photo taken at one of our beautiful Wisconsin state parks.
12x24 oil
Painted in Augusta, MO. I loved the way the tree branches, not yet budded out in March, made the sky break up into sparkles. I used a negative painting technique, painting the sky “holes” and not the branches-they are an underpainting. It took a long time!
18x14 oil
Painted in Augusta, Mo. It was a bright windy day. I couldn’t use my umbrella to shade my canvas while I painted. This made the colors on my canvas look less bright to me. When I took it down and saw it in the proper light, I was surprised but excited about how bright it looked!
18x14 oil
Painted in Augusta, MO. Another Spring day and I’m intrigued by the bare branches! I used a negative painting technique in which I painted what is behind the branches leaving an underpainting to stand in for them.
18x14, oil
Painted during the 2022 Waukesha, WI plein air competition. I had recently met the British artist Tom Voyce, 2017 winner of the UK’s tv show “Landscape Artist of the Year” and love his geometric, almost abstract landscapes. I don’t think was intentional, but I was channeling him while painting on this street corner.
20x16 oil
Winner of First Prize, Nocturne Category at the 2022 Cedarburg, WI Plein Air Competition.
It was a cold, humid night near Lake Michigan. Halfway done, I wondered why my paint wasn’t sticking to the canvas. I looked down to see my brushes dripping with water from the night’s humidity. It’s a good thing I decided I liked the effect, since oil and water don’t mix!
24x12, oil
Painted during the 2021 Paint the Towns Plein Air Competition in Plymouth, WI. I had to work very quickly to capture the evening clouds as they scuttled across the sky on their way to their appointed thunderstorm!
20x16, oil PB
Painted during the 2020 Plymouth plein air competition.
Winner of the “Sunshine Award”.
I found a secret drive near the Wade House in Greenbush, WI and was so overcome by the golden light that I stopped to paint this. I think I was on private land but don’t tell anyone!
16x12, oil PB
Painted at Lime Kiln Park in Grafton, WI. I was so excited to go paint with a group of fellow plein air artists at this beautiful park! It was, to me, a gorgeous morning, but some of my fellow painters were freezing!
14x18, oil
Painted in Cedarburg, WI
16x20, oil PB
Painted during the 2018 Plymouth Plein Air Competition
Honorable Mention Award
8x10, oil
Cedar Creek in Cedarburg, WI. The “Quickpaint” during the 2017 Cedarburg Plein Air Competition.
Honorable Mention Award, League of Milwaukee Artists Winter Show, 2017.
Painted from my photo taken at the falls on the border of Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan.