A Visual Painting Journal - By Erik Bohn

My hope for this blog is that it will document my progression as an oil painter. While I have not studied art in a formal setting, I do study art on my own time. Each new painting is a study in color and technique, trial and error. Every second is a study in perspective.

Monday, December 15, 2025

Dirty Palette Knives, Liquin Container and Paper Towel

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  Dirty Palette Knives, Liquin Container and Paper Towel  6" x 6" oil on 3/4" gesso board Inquire by email  The irony of this...

Table Mountain Pines

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  Table Mountain Pines 18" x 18" oil on canvas Inquire by email While I’ve done the Furnace Mountain hike near Harrisonburg, VA, a...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Green Vase with Glass Vile and Flower

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  Green Vase with Glass Vile and Flower 12" x 12" oil on board Inquire by email Great title, huh? I attended another weekend paint...

Berkshire Barn

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  Berkshire Barn 6" x 6" oil on board Inquire by email  This is based on an image from a recent trip to Western Massachusetts for ...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Avalanche Creek

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  Avalanche Creek 12" x 16" oil on board Inquire by email This painting is based on an image from our trip out west last summer. T...
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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Some Not Permanently Framed Paintings

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Below is a link to a Google album of some of my recent paintings in frames. As the title says, they are not permanently framed, just placed ...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Hay Bales at Dickie Brothers Orchard

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Hay Bales at Dickie Brothers Orchard 12" x 12" oil on board Inquire by email This is a scene from Dickie Brothers orchard down in ...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

Trout Lake Trail (Yellowstone National Park)

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  Trout Lake Trail (Yellowstone National Park) 16" x 20" oil on canvas Inquire by email I haven't painted since July 4th. I go...
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Another Shed Painting

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Another Shed Painting 8" x 10" oil on board A fitting subject for the 4th of July, I guess. Sheds, backyards, lawnmowers, etc. The...
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Shed

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6" x 6" oil on board A little mysterious and loose and painted over another painting that had lived long enough. 

Yellow Pitcher and African Violet

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Yellow Pitcher and African Violet 8" x 8" oil on board Inquire by email Painted on a rainy Sunday on the sun porch back in June. I...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Woodpile II

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Woodpile II 12" x 12" oil on board Inquire by email I painted this en plein air (outdoors) over a two day span between the hours o...
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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Little Switzerland

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  Little Switzerland 8" x 8" oil on board Inquire by email This might sound like excuses, but I think a lot of painters would agre...

Cattle Gate

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Cattle Gate 12" x 16" oil on board Inquire by email Conditions went from bright sunshine to long periods of thick cumulus clouds a...

Peonies

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Peonies 12" x 12" oil on board Inquire by email Once peonies start to go bad, they go bad quickly.  So of course, I decided to pai...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Below the High Meadow

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  Below the High Meadow 24" x 24" oil on canvas Inquire by email In real life, I'm an 8th grade special education teacher with...
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Friday, May 30, 2025

The Gorge

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  The Gorge 9" x 12" oil on board Inquire by email This is the Potomac River Gorge in Great Falls National Park - Virginia Side.  ...

Afternoon at the Miller's

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Afternoon at the Miller's 12" x 12" oil on board Inquire by email This is the flip side to my previous post - the other side o...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Late Morning at the Miller's

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  Late Morning at the Miller's 12" x 12" oil on board Inquire by email This is the miller's house, located at the historic...

Evening Light - Backyard

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Evening Light - Backyard  8" x 8" oil on board This is one I'd like to revisit or turn into a more finished painting.  I was j...
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