The first photo is just to take time to update my bio by showing my wife, oldest son and me at a stopover at beautiful Clayton Lake, New Mexico, on the way home from a trip to the east coast earlier this summer.

The seond photo is a T shirt I designed way back in the day for the Dan Emmett Festival in my former hometown of Mount Vernon, Ohio. Dan wrote the song “Dixie” and hails from Mount Vernon and is also buried there. I posted it because I had sent this photo to an old artist friend of mine in Lancaster, Ohio, who sent me a photo of a similar “old timer at a festival” painting he had done recently on commission for some town in Ohio. 

 

 This painting is called: “Road to Wuhan # 2” done in 2017 and is soon to be gifted to a friend. 

 This acrylic painting, done some time ago now, was inspired by our trip to Big Bend National Park in Texas. Amazingly, we found giant cliffs there down along the Rio Grande at that point on the river. So majestic - all on the Mexico side of the river.

 Artist friend Jim Gerkin in Lancaster, Ohio, sent me this picture. It is a colored pencil portrait of “The Sheriff” that I did some time ago, and before we left Ohio, I gave it to him as a souvenir. He recently had it framed, and it looks great that way!

This was a pen and ink drawing executed during a recent session of the local Urban Sketchers group. It was done at a winery in Corrales called: “Pasando Tiempo” which means “passing time”

This is a photo of an acrylic painting called “Fire in the Woods”. Unfortunately, the colors are not very vibrant as it was done some years ago. Anyway, it was given to a granddaughter for her growing home art gallery!

The three works below were all finished in November, 2020. The first two are called "Two Pond Farm" and "Farm near the Woods" respectively. They are acrylic on canvas and do not represent any place in particular. The final work shows how my style and techniques still vary very much - I was very impressed with Mont Saint-Michel when we were in France a couple of years ago. I began this work in oil, but then bailed out and finished it in colored pencil.