This nicely framed painting of trilliums that I did some years ago now is owned by my son and his family and hangs at their house.

                                             Meet Ethan, who lived a great life with my son and his family. I did this portrait of him from a photo after he had passed. It was a labor of love, for me, and especially because it was turning out more or less the way I envisioned it. It now is owned by my son and family, and hangs in their home. It was executed in oil on canvas, and they put the nice frame on the painting.

Not realizing where I was, I just downloaded these two paintings onto Stone Raven Studio instead of here. Anyway, this is a painting  now owned by my son and displayed in his home. I painted this some time ago. It is a fox done in acrylic on panel. He framed it nicely, and I am so pleased he and his family like it. 

These are typical  colors for houses out west here. Not sure what the medium or surface is, but the scene is also typical for the foothills here.

 

                                     

    

    This painting is acrylic on canvas.

 This post is dedicated to owls and sandhill cranes. I like to call the second painting: “Bird Watcher”. One is acrylic on canvas, and the other is acrylic on panel. The owl stands watch in our kitchen. 

                                       I believe these two paintings are of structures (one is obviously a church) I photographed while on a trip to Spain several years ago. I guess they are both probably acrylic on paper.

 The top drawing is from a photo I took while on a trip to China. The bottom is from a session of the Columbus Urban Sketchers, and is a mansion in a park in Columbus. 

                               This is a bobcat that I did (acrylic on panel) several months ago in late 2024.

 This is a house in the foothills. The gray stucco is not as common as lighter colors, but you can still find it.

This village with the church in its center is based on the Laguna Pueblo, west of Albuquerque, NM. It is not a faithful reproduction of the actual houses there, but only an impression of what the village looks like from a distance. This was done several years ago.

 Here are a couple of watercolors of the scenery done in the studio within the last few months.

                        This, I believe, is a painting of downtown Calgary, Alberta. We travelled there as our first stop on a wonderful car/train trip from there to Jasper. We boarded the train in Jasper and travelled down to Vancouver.

 This painting, from at least a couple years back, is from a photo along the Rio Grande down in Big Bend National Park, Texas. 

 This painting, done within the last few years, is perhaps a wheat field and sky. I enjoy doing such paintings.

This painting, acrylic on paper, with found material, was done within the last couple of months to portray kind of a sense of leftover Fall with a big snow of Winter.

 This painting from several years ago is kind of an ode to the great German painter, Anselm Kiefer. He is one of my favorite artists. 

 From composers to wildlife. Perhaps a quantum leap in subject matter? The coyote and bobcat are both acrylic on panel. The coyote was completed some years ago, but the bobcat was done last year (2024).

 I was surprised not to find these two old boys already on my blog. Certainly, my favorite Russian composers.These will be my first additions to the blog in 2025

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