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. [...]

Okay, not my norm.  But when I drew this, I wasn’t normal!   I got the resource for this pastel from a little tiny black and white picture in the Rolling Stone mag (I own this pastel and any prints I sell, are not for profit…the joys of working off other people’s work).   I [...]

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 [...]

NO!  IT’S NOT MY PANTRY!   AS IF I’D HAVE A BIG MIXING BOWL OF BREAD RISING ON MY SHELVES!  But do you like the way I “signed ” the mural?  In the R lower corner is my can of  campbells “Juliana” sopa that my mom got me from Mexico!  I read the ingredient list [...]

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 [...]

  “Ride of My Dreams” was created after a trip to the Jackson-Barrett car show in Scottsdale AZ.  The place was a sensory banquet of color, texture and people passionate about their cars!  In this acrylic on deep canvas painting, I worked on integrating the cold hard steel and bright colors of the car with [...]