Sonoita Inn 5x7 Oil

This is a bed and breakfast in southern arizona. it was done during monsoon so it was overcast with no shadows, I took artistic liscense and changed that around.

Steelers Logo 6x8 Oil

The logo for the Pittsburgh Steelers overtop the stripes from the uniforms sleeves. This was painted for my uncle for his birthday. Unfortunately it wasn't dry intime so it will have to be late.

Tree Hand 16x20 Oil stretched

A tree resembling a hand reaching out of the ground from Patagonia, AZ. It was painted in winter and most winters down there resemble autumn hence the leaves still being orange/brown on the tree.

Lily 9x12 Oil

A red lilly to go with our bathroom motife! We had an arrangement of fake lilly's in our master bath that was arranged by my mother in law and we thought what would be better than a painting on one to complement.

Sycamore Leaf 5x7 Oil

A study of a sycamore leaf!

Marines Logo 6x8 Oil

I did this painting for my father-in-law who was in the Marines. I hope he enjoys it!

Twin Trees 6x8 Oil

These two sycamores from just before autumn were right next to each other and from on angle looked to be so identical. Sure there are differences but still had a story to tell. Some of the leaves had already started turning when I did this one.

Superman Highlight 6x8 Oil

A highlighted saturated painting of Superman from the Superman Returns movie. I had seen a movie poster done like this sometime before the movie came out and it gave me the idea to do a painting similar to that.

Agua Caliente Park Plein Air 9x12 Oil

We decided to take a day at the park and watch and feed the ducks. Megan and I picknicked for the afternoon and as the sun was getting ready to set, she layed back and began to read a book while I painted. It was early November when I did this so the ducks had since left to a warmer area of the park by this point. I had hoped to have had some of them in the painting. Maybe next time.

Stone Henge 12x24 Oil

Stone Henge, a place I've had a fascination with all my life. I wanted to present it onto canvas originally to fit into an opening on a shelf that was only as big as the canvas. since then I've decided to keep this one with many others for my home show this summer!!

Phantom of the Opera 8x10 Oil

A portrait of the Phantom and Christine from the movie adaptation of the play Phantom of the Opera. I had alot of fun doing this one, and it brought great joy to me. Not as much joy as it brought my fiance Megan though since she is a huge phantom fan!!!

Portrait of my Boys 16x20 Oil Stretched

My three kids, William, Steven, and David. I had a lot of fun painting this one. It was for their grandmother for Christmas. I plan on doing more portraits in the future as they get older!!

St Thomas Island Sunset 9x12 Oil Stretched

A friend of mine from high school had moved down to the caribbean and had taken this photo of St Thomas Island at sunset for me to paint. I enjoyed doing this one quite a bit as I remembered when I had visited this island. My fiance has already found a place in our house for it to go!

Central California Coastal 6x8 Oil

Here is a coastal painting of a beach in northern/central california. It depicts a hillside with some bushes, a distant lighthouse barely visible, and some cold currents, and surf. Had a lot of fun doing this one.

Christmas Holly's 6x8 Oil

Finally got back to painting again. And I can't be happier. With Tis The Season around the corner I thought what better subject matter than a christmas holly!

Picacho Peak Diesel 9x12 Oil

This was painted from a photo taken last year from inside the car on the freeway going 75mph. Ironically with the fast shutter you were actually able to count the lugnuts on the diesel especially since the resolution on the digital camera was so high. Anywho I painted this because it had a sense of urgency feeling, a feeling of going somewhere and as we didn't get to take our big family trip this year I could atleast paint a trip.

Caribbean Coast 8x10 round canvas

This is from St Thomas of the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. I did a 7 day carnival cruise down there visiting 6 islands in 2000. I'm pretty happy with this one. I'm not however happy with the photo of it. My beach sand is actually much lighter than turned out and in the photo it looks like the sand and chairs are blending together which bugs the crap out of me. I believe I got a good value experiment out of this. I've been practicing lately with my value contrasts

Sycamore Sunset 9x12 Oil

Yet more paintings of sycamore trees again in Harshaw, AZ. These were painting from photo's taken back in early February. My kids enjoyed the afternoon running around this old campsite my parents used to take me to. It was nearing sunset and the yellows were starting to show on the ground while blue was still in the sky. I was lucky enough to have a clear day being that we were down here the week before and it was blanketed in snow.

No Tresspassing 8x10 Oil

A large tree hang over a barbwire fence surrounding the property of a ranch in Harshaw, AZ. I rather enjoy this tree and you can see a winter leafless version of it further down.

Dirt Road 8x10 Oil

Sycamore tree in Patagonia, Arizona about a few miles north of Mexico. It was a beautiful warm summer day and the dirt road looks to go on forever. However it was a busy weekend as most of the camping sites were taken up by campers for Memorial Weekend.