DAN KNEPPER

Jordan's Creek .  24 x 36 .  Oil .  $6,000

Newell's Tree .  24 x 36 .  Oil .  $5,000

Autumn Adventure .  30 x 40  Oil .  $7,600

The Depth of Reflection  18 x 18  Oil  $2,800

Second Chance . 18 x 24 .   Oil .  $2,800 . (SOLD)

Ashleigh's Wish   30 x 30   Oil  $3,950  (SOLD)

Do I Smell Bacon?   36 x 48  Oil  $6.900  (SOLD)

Kissing Bridge  10 x 15  Oil  $1,000  (SOLD)

Glitter    24 x 36  Oil  $5,000  (SOLD)

Dan Knepper primarily works in oil and watercolor. He uses oils to create landscapes that capture a desire to explore the rural countryside, and uses watercolor for his controlled and detailed portraits, allowing a luminosity difficult to obtain in other media. Artist's Statement: I started painting because I liked faces and the challenge of capturing them...the light in a person’s eye, or the glow as it passes through skin. The human face and figure are amazing. They are the basis of our standard of elegance and proportion. Painting with watercolors allows me to capture that as if using layers of little chips of stained glass. It’s sounds cliché, but the more I’ve painted in oil or watercolor, the more I realized it was the atmosphere of light I was trying to capture...and so when I paint landscapes, it’s the light, and its effects, the illumination of leaves and grasses, the glowing shadows, the dance of the sunset on the water, and those amazing moments when the air itself has color, that I try to capture and pass on. I hope you’ll step into the moments. Feel the rocking of the waves, hear the wind through the grass, feel the sunlight, explore the barns, and take the path beyond that next hill.