Landscape Pastel, Relaxing, Torres Del Paine, 18x24 Pastel

This is a representational landscape of my Mephisto shoes in Torres Del Paine, Chile.  It was created from a photograph.  The pastel was done between 2011 and 2014 with instruction from both Vince Valdez and Janice Hindes.  I painted it because of the fabulous, riveting beauty of the place.  I painted my relaxing shoes in it because I was nearing the end of a long career and had a running tease with a colleague of exchanging pictures of our feet or shoes up in wonderful, relaxing places.  The shoes, my Mephisto walking shoes, not only bring volume and separation to the painting's composition, but they bring me memories of many, many miles walking through my life, in lovely places in Mephisto shoes.  

Oil Studies, Dooley, and Ten Mile Range, CO

Small 9 x 12 oil painting of our Vizsla, Dooley.  I needed to do a portrait of Dooley to go with the water color of DC, the first dog, and the pastel of Dylan, the second dog.  

Landscape Study, Ten Mile Range.  This range which stretches from Frisco, CO back past Breckenridge, CO is picturesque beyond Dillon Lake.  Every day this vista is new and unique.  

Study Aspen and Ten Mile Range 12 x 14, Oil on Board

This is an oil on canvas board landscape study.

Found Board Acrylic, 24 x 30 St Andrew after Jusepe de Ribera

The nature of our spirituality is a theme in many of my paintings.  Are we spiritual beings having a physical experience?  This is an acrylic painting of St Andrew after Jusepe de Ribera's masterpiece on a piece of plywood I found in the back yard.  It was painted with supervision by Miguel Cortinas the head of the Art Department at UIW.  I saw the original painting in Houston and it seems to me to pose the question well of whether we are earthly or  spiritual -- or torn between the two.  We seem most likely to be the latter with the devil looking over our shoulder.  

Landscape Study, Musquiz Canyon Oil 10 x 20

Study of a West Texas mountain range from a photograph.