Sometimes the less an artist puts into a painting, the more powerful the impact of the painting can be. That was the concept I had in mind when I designed Cornfield Buck. The entire painting is comprised of a close-up of a buck, some foxtail and a few corn stalks.

I designed the painting late in the winter. By the time I realized that I needed some corn stalks for reference for the painting the few remaining patches of corn I could locate were stripped of leaves by strong winter winds. I finally found a secluded food plot near the Johnson County farm where I was raised as a child. I wrapped half a dozen stalks in a tarp, tied them to the top of my little Dodge colt and drove them the 100+ miles to my home/studio in Ankeny.