This coyote was one I came upon during a “photo safari” I did one of the days while an Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon National Park.  I’m from Prescott, so I see coyotes all the time, but NEVER have I seen one this big and healthy!  He came within 30 feet of me [...]

Wildlife Images Murals and Paintings Wildlife Images is a company in Scottsdale that does big game award winning taxidermy, some of the best in the world.  To see their website, click HERE.  Many of their clients, from all over the world have game rooms set up to display their animals in what appears to be [...]

This big guy was part of the booty I gathered on my photo safari while an Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon Nat’l  Park.  One day I took a day off from painting my mural at the Shrine of the Ages and took my camera, car and roomate and just photographed all we saw! [...]

This is actually more of a “quickie”.  I was just playing with some pastels one day and this is what I came up with.  What I’d like to do is a serious oil painting of this in my “outdoor adventure” series I’m currently working on.  Need just the right models for it though, so when [...]

This painting was done with my homegrown model stock, my daughter Kate.  I’ts also my first (and I think only) seascape.

Okay, this was my first water painting, and may I say I impressed myself?  I love the reflections and the way the light dances on the water.  The resource I worked off of, a photograph the client gave me from when her son was there, needed fixing.  I added more buildings and cleaned them up. [...]

This is once again a model from my homegrown model stock, Katie (ahem, now it’s “Kate”).  The original painting of this was burned, along with a portrait of her brother Danny (now “Daniel”!).  I just HAD to redo this painting.  Unfortunately, I don’t think I had my heart into painting this one as much as [...]

This is Craig’s Leopard.  Craig is the owner of Wildlife Images in Scottsdale AZ.  I love working with Wildlife Images because I have the MOST fabulous access to nearly any kind of animal I want.  Not only to photograph how I like in the lighting I like, but to actually touch the animals and know [...]

This is a painting of 2 hunters, a father and daughter team.  There is a good story to this painting.  This man’s wife had been saving and saving to give her husband the gift of his dreams, to go hunt a lion in Africa.  She gave him the gift for his birthday, but before they [...]