This painting is an impression of the Black Mesa on the San Ildefonso Pueblo, north of Santa Fe, N.M.

This painting is an impression of the view from the sandstone bluffs deep in the El Malpais National Monument, looking northwest to the Zuñi Mountains in the Cibola National Forest. This place is located about 20 miles south of Grants, NM,  and is one of our favorite places to visit.

This is a painting of a house in New Mexico.

This is a painting of a lone house in tall grass.

This painting is called: "Lone House in an Approaching Storm".

This painting is of the entrance to the Puye Cliffs near Española, New Mexico. 

This is an attempt at a portrait using mixed media on paper of a famous 20th century American painter. Can you guess who he is?

On a recent trip to western Canada, the cities that I particularly liked were Calgary and Jasper in Alberta, and Kamloops and Vancouver in British Columbia. This painting is mixed media on paper and is an impression of Calgary's downtown as seen from beautiful Prince's Island Park in the Bow River.

This painting started from a photo down near the Organ Mountains near Las Cruces, NM, but ended up being more or less a fanciful picture of a mountain in NM.

This painting is an impression of the view heading south on the "Turquoise Trail" from Santa Fe to Albuquerque that lies on the other side of the distant Sandia Mountains. Once again, it is mixed media on paper.

One of my favorite places in New Mexico is Valles Caldera. This painting is an impression of that area. It is also mixed media on paper.

This is another in the current series of New Mexico landscapes that I have painted this summer. This view is taken from a photo that I took up near Santa Fe last February.

This coming weekend, I will be up at the grist mill, once again, in Loudonville to present a show of recent New Mexico paintings during the annual "wine festival". Here is an example of one of the paintings from that show: it is called: "New Mexico Scene #1, May, 2016". It is mixed media on paper. All together, there will be about ten works on paper; all mixed media.

We are nearing the end of our seasonal stay in New Mexico. I have greatly enjoyed both a colored pencil workshop and the Friday live model sketching sessions at the New Mexico Art League here in Albuquerque. Many thanks to Les, the guy who seems to work tirelessly to bring the Friday sessions (and models) to the site every Friday without failure. He is a great guy.

I am posting a photo of a painting I did back in the 90s of some roses in a vase apres Renoir. I am thinking of my friend, from class, Rose, who was there most Fridays from Santa Fe. Her portrait sketching skills are awesome, and she is one of the people I will miss from that class. I hope they will all still be there when we return in November, 2016. Many thanks to all of you for your acceptance and inspiration to draw from the live model!

This is a portrait of the late, great expressionist painter, Franz Marc, who was killed in WWI. It is one of my wife's favorite paintings. He died 100 years ago this year. I painted this portrait back in the 1990s. The painting now hangs in the gallery of our home in New Mexico. He loved to paint animals in vibrant colors!