These were some of my most popular paintings. The Saguaro series was very well received and all were sold immediately. Stay tuned for more this year!
Reposting two Saguaro paintings from last year.
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Double Black
Another Steamboat Springs effort from last week’s ski trip.
Taylor Swift In Charcoal
This big snowstorm kept me from my studio for about two weeks. Thankfully, there were the NFL playoffs, and I am all red with the Chiefs and the 49rs. We don’t mind this young lady coming into our house on weekends either. If you are… get over it. There will be a song about it later lol.
Steamboat Rabbit Ears Motel
With a brush
This is a favorite spot of mine on the mountain. This one I did with brushes, the previous version, with a knife.
With a knife
The Rabbit Ears Motel
Though this piece is still a work in progress, it has been Sold. Stay tuned for more of the Rabbit Ears to come.
Across the Valley
Ski Town
The things I love to do. Ski. Ski Paintings.
WIP
Last man down the Hill
I did a larger version of the last painting. This one is stunning in person. Though un-stretched at present, it is obviously intended for the Colorado markets.
Heavenly Daze
This was the year I returned to Steamboat Springs, Colorado and started a series of alpine paintings destined to the Rocky Mountain gallery market. Inquires to my contact page.
Wild Blue
The new gondola in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The Wild Blue!
Yampa Sleeping Giant
While still a work-in-progress, this strange painting has got me dreaming of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The mountain “Sleeping Giant” looms in the distance as the horses frolic in the snow covered hills.
Yampa Recess
I remain hopeful that I have a major announcement in the days to come!
Steamboat Lair
Lotus Series #07
This is likely my last painting of 2022. Gearing up for a year of total abstraction on large supports.
Happy New Year!
Lotus of Dreamy Forgetfulness #04
Critical ignorance has become a virtue that few share in this climate of information overload that burns up our wakeful time. These images are an ode to inner peace and quiet.
Lotus of Dreamy Forgetfulness Series #03
This is such a wonderful painting in person. I’m eating the Lotus Flowers again, just being in the same room with it. The photo is not doing it justice, as there are so many subtle layers of wet in wet, and various glazing attributes, along with a bit of impasto here and there. Contact me, via email, in the contact tab for pricing. Krishna Krishna is it’s subtitle. Thanks!
Lotus of Dreamy Forgetfulness Series. Installment #02
In Homers “Odyssey” Zeus blows the ship to the island of Lotus Eaters where, there is no joy without calm. Some of his men consume the fruit of the strange tree, and they refuse to leave the island, instead choosing to stay with the lotus eating islanders in careless retirement.
Introducing the Lotus Series
You know that I’ve been toying with non-representation in my work. With this new piece, I have found a springboard into how I can most honestly approach the subject, and what you can expect of me this coming year. It feels so good to stand in the same room with this painting.
Work in Progress revisited
Born Day
I usually stay on a subject for a series of takes and sketches. I’ve reached the finish line on this one.
It is Yours
This is a funny little landscape that I did almost unconsciously, and quit when I knew it was enough. It’s a little prize of the process we honor every hard working day, and so very interesting in a subtle and simple way.
Detail of Black Baldies
I feel this is a strong image of Iowa farm life.
Black Baldies
Latest works. Colors are just starting to change.
Untitled Pasture 03
Untitled Pasture 02
Untitled pasture 01
Art World
Portrait of a Young Lady
I have always drawn the faces of people. I just love to capture them looking at you. I’ve been away from portraiture for a while but, I’m back!
A little reel to prepare for First Friday of the Month Event.
Odebolt Elevator
Untitled Vines
Every painting is a reach in a new direction, or place. The journey is made until the brush is put down. Beginning, middle, end.
Lavalle House
Athene
A proposed pedestrian bridge to be built in West Des Moines connecting Racoon River Park and Walnut Woods State Park. Very exciting.
Crop Reserve
Because I constructed this large painting straight from the imagination, you can count me out as a realist. From the imagination counts as romanticism, and if it’s considered not ugly, it then falls within Romantic Positivism.
It’s a work in progress, as I see a few things, a few values worth fixing. Maybe some telephone poles. This painting is rather big at 4 feet by 5 feet and, I am getting very comfortable with the larger paintings. Stay tuned!
Amish Harvestore
This is an exciting painting. The unified palette being the reasoning. I gravitate toward the secondary colors, and this one is exemplary of this focus on orange, green, and violet, with a touch of blue in the Harvestore Silo and the faded alizarin crimson in the sky and along the horizon.
Bus Route
The early morning bus ride is often in the magical time of day for most kids who live out in the country.
Brenton Farm Silos
Slap
Hostile and spiteful actions are rarely forgiven from a mostly caring audience. As a celebrity, it was already doubtful as to his contribution to the vitality of the art form. Someone is owed far more than an apology.
What if…
Port
You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see the treasures glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.
Night and the City
This sky will not let me go. So, one more before I attempt a larger one. Enjoy.
Iowa Farm Night III
I kind of like how this little series is developing. Time to try it on a larger scale. Be back soon!
Iowa Farm at Night – No. II
I continue to experiment with the many directions one feels are necessary to explore with oil paint.
West End
This is a larger version of my last painting. It was an hour later, so the pedestrians have changed!
Light Rain
I consider 10th and Locust, in downtown Des Moines, my neighborhood as it is three blocks from my studio. There is a rather decent Italian restaurant in the building you are looking at, along with the Temple Theater venue for live events. Across the street to the west is a Starbucks, also very convenient for coffee and meetings.
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