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Backwaters, 12 x 12 Oil on panel • Awarded Best of Show in Exhibition titled: Texas – City, Country and Coast in Brownwood, Texas.
Burn Barrel • 9 x 36 Oil on panel
Atchafalaya Memories • 18 x 36 Oil on canvas
‘Caddo Blue’, 16 x 8 oil on panel. SOLD at Art on the Square Gallery on historic square in downtown Waxahachie, Texas. Sold SOLD
Three paintings selected for the Richeson75 International -Landscape, Seascape & Architecture 2020 Show and exhibit book.


Welcome to Steve Miller Studios. This site is in the process of being moved over from www.JourneyInOils.com. I work in oils, pastels and charcoal. You will find both Studio and Plein Air work here. I also work on commission to produce pet portraits, house portraits or your favorite place. Please Contact me to about pricing and the process.

The subject matter in this body of work consist of places I have visited, from Texas to Georgia to Maine. Landscape, Architecture, People or Animals…the scope of the work is wide. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Works are avaiblabe at Adobe Western Art Gallery in the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards and the Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas,  Weiler House Fine Art Gallery in Fort Worth and Art on the Square in Waxahachie, Texas.

I use quality materials, such as Winsor Newton Artists’ Oil Colour, Richeson Oils, Gamblin Oils on canvas and panels. Most of the pastel works are created on Ampersand Pastelbord, using quality pastels like Sennelier Soft Pastels, Schmincke Soft Pastels, Rembrandt Soft Pastels, Prismacolor NuPastels and Cretacolor.

Limited edition Giclee prints on canvas are available for a very few works.

Plein Air in the Smokies

The Speech of the Created World

Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens;Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the great mountains;Your judgments are a great deep;O LORD, You preserve man and beast. How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. Psalm 36:5 thru 7 Donna and I read this Psalm one morning before we …

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Why Do Artists Paint?

Perhaps we need to dig down below the surface to really answer this question. The answer must start with creation: Genesis 1:26 “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the …

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Let Us make man in Our image…

These few words in Genesis 1:26 are like a deep well. And, trying to fully understand them is like trying to understand the depths of the ocean while standing on the beach. The effects of sin in a fallen world have dulled our senses to the reality of what God has done. One of the …

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Paint the Town Marble Falls Plein Air Event

Paint the Town Plein Air Event

Plein Air in Marble Falls: April 21 thru 27, I will join Plein Air artist from across the nation for the 17th Annual Paint the Town Event in Downtown Marble Falls, Texas. We will be scattered out with paint and easels to capture various scenes and panoramic Texas Hill Country landscapes, as well as scenes …

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