The Fall of the Cowboy, Closing The Gate, 14"x18" Oil on Canvas After Remington

This is a study in oil on canvas to develop my skills with people and horses.  Two cowboys on quarter horses riding the snowy range just into a storm.  It is roughly 14 by 18, after Frederic Remington.  

Pregnant Rape Victim from Sudan, Oil on Canvas ~ 18" x 24"

This painting was to show the plight of pregnant rape victims of war.  I appropriated from the Blind Man of Toledo painting by Joaquin Soroll.  That painting sets the stage because the blind man seemed as isolated as a pregnant rape victim in the vast, almost surreal landscape.  Grimly, pregnant victims of rape in war are isolated from their own communities with an undesired, foreign child.   

Charcoal and Pastel Studies -- Butcher Block Paper

Here are a couple of fairly large charcoals that I did on butcher block paper just for warming up.  Bailey the smaller of the two for a friend's birthday (her dog) and Tyler and his dog Max is a much larger piece, but was a fun practice.

Poster Art, Fiesta Girl with Therapy Dog, 24 x 20, Oil on Canvas

This painting is about joy between a young girl and her reading, therapy dog.   It is an oil on canvas that integrates a working picture of a youngster with a therapy dog, and some icons of fiesta San Antonio -- the ribbons and the wreath, the Texas Flag, and the Alamo.  Therapy dogs are always on lead -- hence the leash into the foreground.  The painting was done as a submission for a Fiesta event in 2016.  

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.