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.  

Pastel, Woman, Baby and Dog 18 x 24

This is a painting of hope and faith and spirituality.  It is a pastel stitched together from various photographs and that includes iconography of our mortality and I hope our immortality.     

Study, Georgia O'Keefe Charcoal 24x18

This study is from a black and white photograph of Georgia O'Keefe by her husband Alfred Stieglitz.  

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.