Nature Back Home: 2007-01-21

Just a phone call away

Just a Phone Call Away

This is a painting of the phone lines out in the western part of the Antelope Valley in the Mojave Desert. You can be sure that this is what you’ll see until housing developments start going up.
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Windmill

Tehachapi

Tehachapi

Tehachapi windmills have always been a staple part of the Tehachapi mountains above the Mojave Desert. I’ve always wanted to paint them so this was the perfect opportunity to do so.

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Teepee

Sunday Morn'

Sunday Morn’

This particular painting has an interesting story. It is a painting of a church in Nebraska that really has no trees around it so I decided to add my back yard tree to the painting to help enhance it. I was half way done when my two year old decided to sneak in to my art studio and do a little painting of her own……all over it! No, I didn’t kill her, after all she thought she was helping Daddy. After a couple of months of teetering on whether to throw it out or not, I decided to fix it and it turned out better than I could have imagined.

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Sunday Morn is inspired by a Nebraska Church that David Passes by everyday.

Spring Blossom

Spring Blossom

This is a painting of a tree in my front yard. It blossoms every year with bright pink blossoms for about two weeks before the wind blows them all away. You can find these particular trees all over Nebraska.

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San Diego Mission

San Diego Mission

This is my first black and white painting I ever did. It was actually a lot harder to paint then I originally thought because I had to individually mix each shade of grey just to get the right shade. This painting sits in my uncle’s house in San Diego.

Original/Acrylic: Sold (Prints can be obtained)

Inspired by the San Diego Missions.

Port Hueneme

Port Hueneme

I made this painting from a photo I took around Christmas at Port Hueneme beach in Southern California. This beach is the beach where I grew up surfing, body boarding, and swimming on. It was a dangerous beach because of the swells and the ferocious rip tides that occur; yet, it’s still a beautiful beach.

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Pirates Cove

Pirates’ Cove

This was a painting I have been drawing for years while scribbling around in class or something. I finally got the chance to put it down on canvas with color and make my Pirates’ Cove a reality. It sits above the fireplace in front of my brother and sister in laws’ house in California City California.

Original/Acrylic: Sold (Prints can be obtained)

Lightening Crashes

Lightning Crashes

This started off as an experimental painting because I always wanted to paint lightning at night during a storm. This particular painting is outside a ranch in the Mojave Desert. It has turned out to be a crowd favorite and I will have to do more in the future.
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Light House Lane

Lighthouse Lane

This is a painting of my first light house. Although it doesn’t exist, other than my own imagination, I would love to see a cobblestone lighthouse on the seashore like this.

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Koehler Bridge

Koehler Bridge

This is a painting I made for my friend back home. He wanted a covered bridge so I made it and the name of the bridge is his last name. Many people think it looks like the Madison County covered bridge. I’ve never even been there.

Original/Acrylic: Sold (Prints can be obtained)

Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree

This was my first painting on my own. It was on the way back to my house in the Mojave Desert when I looked back and saw this sunset. I just had to put it down on canvas so I went home and painted it that night. It is also the painting for Nature Back Home logo.

Original/Acrylic: Sold (Prints can be made)

Christmas in the Rockies

Christmas in the Rockies
This is a painting of a cabin in the Rockies that I could only wish I owned. Up close you can see the Christmas lights hanging on the roof.
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After the Storm

Desert Storm was inspired by the Mojave Desert
Storms in California

After the Storm

This was another sunset right after a summer thunder storm in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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Autumn Even'n

Autumn Even’n

This was a painting of a dried up pond in the Wild Animal Park in Nebraska.
I wanted to use vibrant fall colors so I just added water.

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Aspen

Aspen

This painting is my version of abstract painting. Believe it or not, the bright colors in this painting were exactly how I seen them when I was driving through Aspen Colorado in the middle of October. I think it is the most beautiful place on earth.

Original/ Acrylic: Sold

Arizona

Arizona
This was my second painting and was also a copy of a real photograph. I wanted to see if I could capture the realism involved with the colors and after a few touches of my own, including a crescent moon in the clouds, it worked. I was ready to begin painting my on my own.

Original/ Acrylic: Not for sale

My First Painting

This is David Stowe's first painting.

My First Painting
This painting was fun for me because I got the experience of using bright colors and getting creative with it. This painting is similar to the one I was copying; however, I added a few touches here and there. I surprised my mom with this painting and my dad had it framed and hung it above the family piano where it sits to this day.

Original/Acrylic on Canvas: Not for sale

The History of Nature Back Home

Nature Back Home in itself explains David’s paintings. Bright sunrises, sunsets, vivid colors, and nostalgic landscapes are snapshots on canvas conveying scenes people often witness at one point in their lives and only wish they had a camera on hand to capture it. “So many times I would be sitting at a beach in California, the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, walking through the Mojave Desert, or driving through the vast plains of Nebraska and South Dakota and would be in awe of nature’s sheer beauty. That’s when I realized I need to put this down on canvas so everybody can say, ‘Hey! I’ve seen that before!’” David Stowe David grew up in the Southwest corner of the Mojave Desert in a town called Quartz Hill. He always loved drawing but never really felt the urge to make a career out of it. His mother was probably his biggest fan and was always encouraging his art work. After getting out of high school he enlisted in the U.S Navy as a Corpsmen assigned to the Marines. After four years, he got out of the Navy and began working in hospitals around Southern California as a CNA until landing a job as an Orthopaedic physician Assistant in Panorama city California. Two years later he was laid off from his job and began acting in television, movies, and theatrical plays. David started to realize that the entertainment industry was exciting and right up his alley but a life changing experience happened when he and his wife were expecting their fourth child. The baby (Cheyanne) had a stroke before she was born causing all of her organs to fail and she was not expected to live. David and his wife refused to give up and were at the hospital everyday for three months. Eventually she began to come around and she was released from the hospital. She is now six years old and has Cerebral Palsy; however, she alive and happy. After this episode David realized he needed a more stable job and began attending college. On a trip with his family to a Thomas Kinkade gallery, David thought he might give painting a try and since his mother had always been his biggest motivator for his art, he decided to give it a shot. He painted his mother a copy of a painting off of a calendar and it was a dead ringer. His mother loved it so much she had it framed and hung on the wall over her piano where it hangs to this day. David now resides in Bellevue Nebraska where his wife is stationed in the Air Force with his five children and two Miniature Schnauzers. He will be graduating from Peru State University in December of 07 with his BS degree and will be teaching high school, continue coaching high school football, and painting nature scenes that we’ve had all scene one time or another back home.