Study Poster Art Blue Heron 20 x 30 Acrylic after James Audubon

Study of Blue Heron

Pastel, Sharing a Sip 24 x 18

The concept of this painting is the sweet, beauty of helping others -- especially the young helping others.  This is a glimpse of this theme as a youngster barely able to get to the water fountain herself helps a Great Dane with a sip of water too.  It is a detailed pastel from a phone photograph.  It inspires me to believe that we have inspired kindness in the young despite all the negativity that we might see or have experienced ourselves.  

Set of Landscape Pencil Drawings, 5 18 x 24 Drawings

I intend my art to inspire environmental stewardship.  Some seems to be of environmental damage and others of environmental beauty.  These pencil images are of the San Antonio River (or in the case of the faucet, the Edward's Aquifer) and its tributary San Pedro Creek from near the headwaters to down south where the streams have consolidated themselves into the San Antonio river.  

Study, Landscape Oil, Cotulla Road to Lake ` 14 x 17

This was a study of a landscape -- to better understand how to paint in oil under Janice Hindes, who is a fan of both John Carlson and Charles Slovek and who studied under Richard Schmid.  I look always for a spiritual narrative it seems, and a road always seems to provide one.

The painting was primarily from a reference picture taken near Cotulla with my compositional additions.

 

Pencil Study, 18 x 24, Road to the Pond, Cotulla

Portrait, Lefty Oil on Canvas

The concept of this painting was to attempt to capture in paint the personality and spirituality of this fellow.  How do you capture personality and spirituality?  It is a matter of bringing the paintbrush out one day at a time, and I am grateful for how well it turned out, and I thank Janice Hindes for her suggestions.  It is a "cheese smile," but it is Lefty's cheese smile.  I wanted to capture a representation of a spiritual person so that I and others can remember those qualities that he had and to be inspired.  Perhaps this is exactly what all portrait artists want to do.

Small Pastel, Tree of Life `17 x 14

I wanted to capture the beautiful flow and harmony of this piece of rotting wood on the forest floor.  Another opportunity to find spirituality in the beauty of nature, this time, more microscopically. 

This was an early pastel piece from 2012.  It was a challange to create details and have all the details relate to one another.  Values with pastels are always difficult for me the beginner.  Most of it seems to hang together and I see some small harmony and sound composition in it.


It is about decay and regeneration.  Perhaps how the rot of the past can be built upon for the future.