St Thomas 8x10 Oil

In April of 2000 I took a cruise to the Carribbean. I fell in love with it, and when I began painting wanted to do several paintings from the photos I took there. While moving I found the box of photo's from that trip, since Digital was new I still had to rely on 35mm at the time. Scanned this in to transfer to a canvas. The picture is of the harbor on St Thomas Island taken from the top of the boat.


While looking over it I saw some areas needed manipulated that just wouldn't work in a painting. Below is my result. I used a new looser technique than normal taking my plein air experience into account to let my freedom express.

The painting 8x10 Oil, St Tomas Island.

Carribbean Beach 16x20 Oil

Back to the ones from the early days.....maybe not.


My fiance had really liked a previous oval caribbean coast painting I had done for my mom and wanted to steal it. I told her I'd paint her one, only bigger. it's been 2 1/2 years since the last version and my talent has improved greatly over that time. This one was a lot of fun and turned out much better than the previous and is now hanging in our bedroom.

Countryside Coastal 10x14 Oil

Father's Day came around and I didn't want to do a plein air like on Mother's Day. I decided to take a page out of a friend of mine's book of creating a place from imagination. i wanted something very country-like while exhibiting the ocean as well. my fiance has decided that this was resembling somewhere in South Carolina or Maine. But definately Atlantic Coast. I've deemed it "Countryside Coastal". I plan to do a couple more out of imagination in the future. It was alot of fun and pushed me in my experience as an artist and the creativity we hold.

Saguaro National Park East 24x36 Oil

I was finally able to get around to doing a decent sized canvas. Wanting my first to explore the area in which we live, the Sonoran Desert. This one measuring 24x36



Working on this one just here and there between other paintings was my goal. I knew I could do this one Alla Prima but wanted to give it a session time. Making sure all my layers were laid in properly.

This is from the Saguaro National Park's trail off Broadway Blvd, in Tucson, Arizona. I wanted a view of the Tanque Verde and Catalina Mountains as well as several Saguaro's and Prickly Pears. I let this one get worked on occassionally over 4-5 weeks with only about several hours each session being spent on it. All in all it turned out quite nicely.

ARC Tropper 8x10 Oil

Star Wars Characters the saga continues..........wasnt' it just a few months ago it was Lord of the Rings coming out all the time in my paintings?????


Another in a series of Star Wars Character Art. This time for my boys. They really like Jedi and Clone Troopers. This Arc Trooper was painted at the request of my older two to hang in their room. My oldest son's favorite color is Red so he was done in Red and my middle child wants his done in either blue or orange.

Autumn Sonoita 8x10 Oil

A trip down south back in November we found several shades of yellow, orange, and brown. trying to capture some of that we took loads of photographs. Painted this one back in April. Fall in Southern Arizona's small town of Sonoita.

Master Yoda 8x10 Oil

My father in law really liked the R2-D2 I had done for my fiance and he was a fan of Yoda. So I painted this for him as his father's day gift. Master Yoda weilding his green lightsaber.

Desert Wash 9x12 Oil

Out with the old and in with the new......


....A painting that I didn't particularly like from years before needed to be painted over. Rather than waste a new canvas I thought of recycling one of my old ones I never liked.

This painting of a dry riverbed out in Tanque Verde floods every year during Summer Monsoons. But in the spring this 11 mile stretch of sand is lined with tall cottonwood trees and desert wildflowers.

Lone Saguaro 8x10 Oil

A lonely Saguaro Cactus is partially shaded by a small Palo Verde Tree wrapping around it's base. This is from a trip to the Saguaro National Park's Cactus Forrest. Where no matter where you look you see hundreds of these tall cactus' standing around.

Mt Lemmon Snowy Winter 5x7 Oil

Living in the desert it gets quite hot, extremely hot. Especially today on the longest day of the year, Summer Solstace! We experience temperatures in the 115's by early summer. But the winter which does get cold, but not that cold because you still have to run the air conditioning in your car during the day to stay cool. We decided back in December to get to a place less warm and more cool, fortunately for us we have one of the best mountain regions in Arizona. We took a trip up the mountain on a day it snowed and enjoyed sledding, playing in the snow (very rare for this far south), and snapping pictures. When we officially hit 100 a few weeks ago I needed to cool down, atleast in my head so I painted this from our trip six months ago!

Fountain Park 5x7 Oil

A trip from December to Fountain Hills, Arizona. This nice quiet and yet wonderful neck of Arizona. This park holds the worlds largest fountain that shoots up every hour from the center of the lake. Though not pictured here, the view of Red Rock and these Pines and the WWII Memorial in the background was picturesque. My Fiance who grew up in FH, AZ really enjoyed this one.

Halo 2 Master Chief 9x12 Oil

A follow up to a painting started almost two years ago.


I was going through my drawers of canvas' that I had stretched and found this at the bottom. I had begun this nearly two years ago and left it alone for a later re-working. I pulled it out on a night where I wasn't particularly inspired to paint and starting mixing and laying in my colors. I couldn't believe the amounts of variations of Ultramarine Blue, and Cad. Yellow Light and Pale I had to mix to create all the different greens, blues, and yellows, and browns for this piece. I worked on it for about 4 1/2 hours until it was completed. In the end I think it turned out quite nicely!!

Rose Garden Bush 5x7

This small pink rose bush was all alone in the hundreds of rose bushes at Tucson's Reid Park Rose Garden. I took artistic liscence and put a wall behind the bush to block out all the people standing around!

Sonoran Desert Camper 6x8 Oil

A camper in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona attempts to start a fire using a rib from a saguaro cactus!