Portfolio
Lyn Hershey
Welcome to the portfolio of Lyn Hershey. Lyn works with oil, acrylic, and watercolor. He typically paints on canvas board, but has also been known to paint on glass, rocks, and honey mushrooms. For a history of Lyn’s paintings, you can also visit his extended portfolio here.
Acrylic painting December, 2020 Title: Outback Barn
Acrylic 2016 Golden Wheatfield Painted for and donated to the Mennonite Missions Auction in Ritzville, Wa. Inspired by the surroundings of the Menno Church that sits on a hill surrounded by fields of wheat in every direction. Lyn and Jeanie served as Interim Pastors...
Acrylic2024 Mark's wife Jean had Lyn paint this from a picture Mark had taken of this old abandoned stone house just off of I-84 near Baker, OR. It had always been a favorite of Mark's, and he snapped this picture on the way home one night at sunset. She gave it to...
Acrylic2024 Painted for son, Mark from a picture he took on his hunting trip near Riggins, Idaho. Original in Mark's home.
Acrylic2024 "On the High Desert of Oregon" This painting was commissioned by Pat & Tom Losser. They have the original in their home. It was painted from a picture that Tom had taken.
Acrylic2014 Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Oil painting2013 Inspired by a Robert Wood painting. Lyn made prints and gave them out to many friends and family. The Original is in Ohio with friends. A favorite of Lyn's, he has recreated it in acrylic a few times and currently has one hanging in his home.
Oil painting. Palette knife with some brush Unknown date Based on a picture Lyn saw. Currently resides at grandson Ian's home.
Oil painting. Palette knife rather than brush "where you just smear it around" Delmer and Donna, Lyn's wife's sister and husband, had this painting for a while but now the original is in Lyn and Jeanie's home. "Outta my head" not inspired by a real painting.
Acrylic painting 2019 Original in Ritzville, WA at the Mennonite Church, but may have possibly been sold in the Mennonite Relief Sale auction.
Oil painting. Early years of Lyn's painting. Original at Lyn's granddaughter Mary's house.
Watercolor painting. Very early in Lyn's painting Original currently at Lyn and Jeanie's home.
Acrylic painting. 1976 This was painted from a photograph that Lyn saw somewhere. It was originally painted for John and Urma Jensy who had it in their house at one point. It now resides at Lyn's son Ron's home.
Watercolor painting. "Outta my head" not inspired by a real location. Original in Lyn and Jeanie's home.
Watercolor painting1990 "Outta my head" not inspired by a real location. Original in Lyn and Jeanie's home.
The Oregon Coast2013 Original painting was donated for a fundraiser auction for Drift Creek Camp in Oregon. A couple working at the camp won the auction and the painting resides with them.
Acrylic2014 The old mill at Flint, Idaho Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Greyhound Mill near Challis, Idaho Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Mine buildings below Shoup, Idaho Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Tram towers outside of Mackay, Idaho Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Red Metals Mine near Profile Summit Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Old cabin in Mammoth Basin Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Golden Glow Mill, Boulder Basin Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Dredge in Bonanza City along the Yankee Fork Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Catholic Church Silver City, Idaho Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Placer camp cabinsLeesburg, Idaho Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Acrylic2014 Cumberland Mill on War Eagle Mountain Near Silver City, Idaho Part of the Idaho Ghost Towns Collection, with paintings inspired by: "Southern Idaho Ghost Towns" by Wayne C. SparlingCaxton Press Publishing, 1974
Oil painting1969 The original resides with Lyn's son, Mark Hershey.
Oil painting
Oil painting Inspired by a Robert Wood painting.
Watercolor painting1986 Lyn's brother Ken had a hunting cabin in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was an old farmhouse that "went back to nature" and this was what was left. Lyn shot a deer there and it wasn't quite dead and it tried to get up and he went for miles...
Watercolor Early painting. Original is at Lynette's Home.
Collection
Idaho Ghost Towns
Collection
By The Sea
