Washington Mountain Scene

A mountain scene painted for friends at GearTerra.com. 

48 x 36 inches in oil on 1.5 inch thick canvas.

I like to take old black and white photographs as pieces in colorful paintings.   This is a collage of four different photos - the house, car, motorcycle, and the biplane.  The plane is called a Curtis JN-4 Canuck, painted from a photo by Don Parsons, (permission provided).

18 x 24 inch oil on canvas

Kathe Kollwitz

Kathe Kollwitz was an engraver and artist from Germany who focused on anti-war messages and the plight of the poor.

12 x 12 inches oil on canvas board

Shackleton portrait

Portrait of Ernest Shackleton, explorer of the Antarctic and expedition leader.  Oil on canvas board. 

Survivor, Researcher

Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi war criminal hunter.   In an interview someone asked him if he considered himself an Historian (after having written a number of books)... He said no, he's more of a Researcher.  In a speech he asked that people not consider him a Hero.... Rather, he said, every day of his life after WWII he has considered himself just a Survivor who could not let the victims down.  He had to search for justice for the victims.  12 x 12 inches, oil on canvas panel.  

Davenport

A new kind of style I'm pursuing using circles to create an impressionist piece.  

20 x 16 inches oil on canvas

Towns

This reminds me of towns people construct over a rough landscape. 

16 x 20 inches oil on canvas.

Battle of the Somme

Scene from the Battle of the Somme documentary.   The battle lasted over 4 months and resulted in over a million killed or wounded.

36 x 48 inches, oil on canvas.

Hold That Thought

As the world is moving around us we capture little pieces of what we see, hear, smell, feel in our memories.

28 x 22 oil on canvas.  Sold

Trier

Named after a city in Germany where I first saw Roman ruins, this painting reminds me of the arches from ancient civilizations.   

Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches.

Shapes in Blue and Yellow

Overlapping shapes in Blue, Yellow, and Green.  

28 x 22 inches oil on canvas.  Sold.

Shapes in Blue and Red

Reds, Blues, and Purples.  
28 x 22 inches oil on canvas.

Shapes in Primarily Yellow

Shapes in Primarily Yellow is just part of a series of 4 paintings that gave me time to practice hard edge abstraction, color mixing, and the use of oil and glykenol. 

28 x 22 inches on canvas.

Shapes in Yellow and Red

A series of 4 paintings where I'm just playing with the overlap of shapes and variations of two colors.   

28x22 inches, oil on canvas.

Why kill.

One of the deepest philosophical considerations. An imperative to consider why, a responsibility that if we engage in killing we must know why. We must make this a sentence not a question. This work gives pause to the viewer, wondering why the punctuation is not as expected, and then hopefully making the connection to consider what is killing, why it occurs, and what is our personal role.

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Please do not use this work without permission of the artist. 28 x 22 inches oil on canvas.

Kill, why.

One of the deepest philosophical considerations. An imperative to consider why, a responsibility that if we engage in killing we must know why. We must make this a sentence not a question. This work gives pause to the viewer, wondering why the punctuation is not as expected, and then hopefully making the connection to consider what is killing, why it occurs, and what is our personal role.

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Please do not use this work for commercial purposes without my permission. 28 x 22 inches oil on canvas.

War Child

From a black and white photograph of a confict in Africa.  30 x 40 inches oil on canvas.

Kandinsky Inspired

This painting is something new for me, one inspired by the techniques of Wassily Kandinsky.   Previously I’ve not really ventured too far into trying to imitate the style of a famous artist.  But once getting into this it was really interesting to study his more geometric paintings and try to understand what he was trying to achieve and how he did it.   Initially I saw nothing but chaos but after struggling to create my own interpretation of his style (not all these shapes appear in his paintings) I came to believe that he was striving to achieve a delicate balance of color and shape using a wide range of colors and many different lines and shapes.    I think it’s easy to over-do a painting like this (my weakness); It’s a delicate balance between not enough and too much.  Now, finally after 3 weekends, on to something else!   22 x 28 inches oil on canvas.

Abstract Expressionism 3.14.14

Abstract Expressionism. Not necessarily intending to tell a story. Created from the subconscious. A reflection of your emotional state. Through spontaneous or non-planned painting, there may be some insight to your soul or the environment in which you live. As Helen Frankenthaler said... "There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about."    This is 20 x 24 in. oil on canvas

Cicada Shell

My very first oil painting. From a photo of the shell of a cicada on a tree.  

7 x 5 inches on canvas