"Cathedral Rock" 12'x 18' Dec. 04
I've always enjoyed Sedona Az. The red colors of the landscape, this place is truly a jewel in my heart. I used to visit Sedona with my family when I was growing up. When I look at this painting, I remember those wonderful times.
Blog Archive
"Cathedral Rock"
"Bozkashi" 24" x 36" Nov. 06
This painting was perhaps the most challenging I've ever done. The colors all being so similar in hue, keeping all of the figures in contrast to one another. This scene to me is timeless. Theses horsemen have been playing this sport for ages.
"Reyna" 8" x 11" Nov. 06
When I started this painting it was just a study and as I worked smoothing the color of her skin I realized how much she resembles a girl I knew growing up. She just had this way with guys.
"Braving the Storm" 18" x 24" May 05
This piece is very dear to me. It was a gift for my mother. This scene has a special significance to her. I enjoyed painting the waves very much. Waves and clouds and sunsets are felt and conveyed through the brush stroke-truth of emotion brilliancy through honesty.
"All Around the Lighthouse" April 05
This was a commissioined piece although the patron had something else in mind. Just as quickly a friend's wife decided she loved this painting. I have painted this and two other sailboat scenes. I truly love painting with raw impressionistic brush stroke.
"Venus of Willendorf" 18' x 24" Nov. 06
This was commissioned for a couple of whom have the very sculpture. I have always been in awe of feminine curves. What projects that more than a woman in pregnancy?
"Victory Lane" 33" x 33" Sept. 06
This was a commissioned piece by an avid NASCAR enthusiast. He and a close friend wanted this painting to remember the race they went to. i liked the idea and worked with the owner to give his friend exactly what he wanted.
"Shepard's Hardware" 18' x 24" July 06
This was a commissioned piece by the owner of the El Camino. it hangs in his garage next to his prize El Coamino. The owner retired from the hardware business and this was a retirement present.
"Grandpa's Old Buick" 12" x 24" April 04
I love classic cars. The buick Row-master is a beautiful automobile; what better reason to paint one.
"Release Day" 33"x 33" June 04
What convict wouldn't want a ride home in a sweet ride like this. Perhaps one day the owner will get his wish.
"The Sanctuary" St. Augustine 18" x 24" Feb. 05
I've always had so many conversations about this painting; people from Tucson, Az always feel a certain closeness or bond with this painting. I've always appreciated the architecture of churches expecially those of the southwest. Being raised a catholic and spending hours looking around inside of churchs' cathedral ceiling expanses made me really appreciate these places of worship and reflection.
Faceless Rider 18"x 12" March 04
This is actually the first painting I ever did for a friend of mine. His character and personality is much like the figure in the painting....a bit dusty, weather beaten, and all business. Such the rider is, so is my friend.
"Creation"
"Le Femme a l'ombrelle" 12"x18" May 04
Made famous by Monet, himself the original impressionist, I've always loved this scene of madame Money and son. I painted this for my mother early on in my years of painting. The movement of her dress on that breezy spring day...such inspiration.
"Autumn dance of Immortals" 33"x33" March 06
I love the movement of this piece, the figures caught in mid-flight. The gracefulness and flowetry caught my imagination.
"The Mask of One's Soul" 33'x33' May 06
This was a piece commissioned by a dear friend who has impeccable taste in art and music. When he presented me with the photo of this figure, I thought he'd lost his mind...I was wrong. To this day i enjoy looking at this painting. It is perhaps my favorite painting.
"I'll Make Them All Pay" 33"x33" June 06
I was inspired by the movie "Kill Bill" and the character Oren Ishii. Women do revenge so well.
"Tricarre" 18"x 24" April 06
I love Roman scenes, very amazing c ivilization. I can almost imagine a similar scene happening in Las Vegas in contemporary times.
"Daughter of the Wind" 24"x36" Oct. 06
A friend of mine commissioned this painting for his brother. i wanted to paint something that said "New Beginning". You can't do that without some kind of an end. The figure in the painting is leaving the life she had and is starting the next.
"Season's First Snowflake" 13"x15"
This painting started as a background study, then turned into this snow fairy painting for a little girl with a January birthday. I love how the colors blend and contrast.
"Jeremiah Johnson" 18"x 24"
This is a face that has seen many a harsh winter, living by his means of wits. What a man to have had so few comforts, but lived free as the open sky. What is he pondering?...there's no way he'd ever say.
"Via con Dios" 18"x24" June 06
I painted this just after the Pope's passing. I spent extra time detailing his hands because they did God's work for many years. Only fitting they should be releasing his soul to heaven. This painting was for my grandmother, Polish immigrant and devout Catholic.
"Motherly Love" 7"x12" June 06
I painted this for a friend who just had his first child, a little girl. I was with him the first time he saw her, a moment I'll remember forever.
"Hunts the Horse" 28"x 40" Feb. 06
This originally a JD Challeger picture. I painted this one for a natie friend's father. This figure is stoicly severe, so stern. You can feel the intensity in his spirit.
"The White Buffalo" 18'x24" Sept. 06
The piece was commissioned for a man who loves the American West. he too is a bit like the white buffalo-alpha male in his heard. Well respected...one in a lifetime.
"Letting Go" 18"x 24" April 05
I have always loved sailboats, picture s of yachts. People always seem to look like they enjoy sailing. A part of me wishes to be free like these people, just "letting go". Some people's idea of being free is fllying. Well a boat like a leaf upon the ocean seems right to me.
"Complete Fulfillment" 12" x18" Dec. 04
This painting was commissioned. This piece to me says humble beginnings, as was the beginning of Complete Fulfillment, the company. The owner of the company is a great enrepreneur. I really liked the pastels in this painting~ the sun catching colors at dusk.
"Crystal Bay" Lake Tahoe 18"x 24"
This was a commisssioned piece, one of my first. Certain parts of this painting I enjoyed very much, then when it came to painting the people I felt I'd gotten in over my head. I then decided to start painting people, hone my skills of capturing moments.
"Creation and Narcisness" 9"x12" Feb. 03
This watercolor came from a Salvador Dali print. I enjoyed it so much I tried painting it in watercolor which I found to be wholly challenging. Still to this day I find the muddled abstractness style of my version embracing.
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