Another painting from a photograph, this is virtually my backyard, our property borders on land owned by a Catholic Cemetery that's been left to nature for years. There are some huge, beautiful stands

Another quick portrait. 6" x 6" Acrylic on gessoed panel.

Quick loose painting from a photo. Blocked in with black and then did a monochromatic underpainting and added color on top of that. That really helps with getting the values right.

The dry brush over impasto technique applied to a representational subject.

This is one of the photoshop composite illustrations that I did for a Flickr group called Visual Dictionary or something like that.

Another in my series of small abstract works on paper. This is a fairly early one and the impasto is a different texture, very fine pumice ground. The large green shape was light yellow, I glazed over

I've been working on a series of small paintings using dry brush over heavily textured paper.

Did this image composite for a photoshop contest on Flickr.

This is a caricature I did of my friend Lon years ago for his business cards. Lon died this fall, of complications from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was busted up pretty good but

This is another piece that I found in the flat file. It's a birthday card drawn by Greg Guler, who I worked with at Bajus-Jones, a small animation company that did mostly TV commercials in the Twin Cities.

Another painting from the late 80s. My friend April was the model, I photographed her with the orchid. She was a great model, but it was really hard to get the hummingbird to sit still.

I was going through an old rusty flat file yesterday and found all kinds of work that was decades old. I even found some of my very first paintings, dating back to before high school. One of the paintings

I did a series of photo manipulation images based on my Fender Stratocaster. I overlay textures and multiple images, experimenting with different layer blending modes. Here's another. on this one I rotated

Before I started painting again, I did a lot of digital work, manipulating images in Photoshop. This is one of my faves.

This painting was done from a photo taken in Bend Oregon , along the Deschutes River.

I was out working in my garden when I saw the way the light was hitting this joe pie weed. Ran in and got my camera. Wait, I don't run. This was a breakthrough painting for me, it's the first one that

Winnie is my daughter's Wheaten Terrier. Winnie is into squirrels, board games and cheese. Wheatons are high energy, playful dogs with minds of their own. They love people and are enthusiastic greeters,

This is Nellie, my sister and brother-in-law's late great West Highland Terrier. Like most terriers the Westie is energetic, strong minded and playful with a high prey drive. It's a challenge to paint

Painted in mid September. Out neighbor, Dean was giving three or four beautiful tomatoes every couple of days. I painted this one from life. 7" x 5" acrylic on panel My Etsy store.

I created this self portrait in Adobe Illustrator. Needs an update though; my glasses are round these days.