"BLUE"

This 48x40 inch oil 0n canvas was of a trip back form Santa Fe. I was just coming out of Flagstaff on I-17 heading south. As I came over this one hill, the valley below opened up to this view, so I picked my camera up and took one shot and new, "Here's my next painting". (SOLD)

"ADRIFT"

When living in San Luis Obispo, I met this guy who became a good friend and come to find out
a fantastic fisherman... So for two years, practically every weekend we went fishing, his requirement for taking me out on his bass boat was, I did not smoke or drink hard liquor, never had, don't intend to start I told him... With that, my introduction to lake fishing was a magical experence for both my skill and my minds eye. This is one of many viwes in just drifting in silence. Oil on canvas, 32"x28"

"RUMBLINGS" 20"X40"

Taking a road to somewhere, knowing that soon it was going to rain I pulled of to just stop and look at the light on the road I put my window down just in time to see, hear, and feel the rumblings of the train and the distant thunder. Oil on canvas, 40"x20"

"SUNSHINE PARK"

Just traveling thru on my way to see a friend. After reaching the end of conversation and wanting to get back out on the road, I turned to look back and thought, here is my next painting, one photo later and weeks of painting, I feel I captured the mood I was looking for. Oil on canvas, 36"x32" (SOLD)

"EXIT AT ALBUQUERQUE"

One of many a trips to New Mexico and a stop in Albuquerque after a long day of driving.
Oil on canvas 60"x40" (SOLD)

"INTO A BUTTERMILK SKY"

This back road place I found myself has given me some wonderful skies and a feeling that time stopped somewhere in the fifties... Oil on canvas 40"x 40"

"NEXT STOP"

The thunderhead behind this train made a wonderful backdrop for this painting.. I played with the coloring in this giving it a mood of faraway feelings of leaving and going too another place.
Oil on canvas 36"x34" (Sold)

"MY PARADISE"

I painted this on a new canvas that I had not worked on before, it has a very smooth surface and was not sure of it taking the oils like I wanted and needed... When I started at the top, developing the shad in the sky I knew I made the right decision in using this canvas.. The colors glided on making this painting an absolute joy to work on. 64"x20 oil on canvas. (SOLD)

"POETIC ILLUSIONS" 30"x64"

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"CARNIVAL" 36"x30" Oil on canvas