St Thomas 8x10 Oil

In April of 2000 I took a cruise to the Carribbean. I fell in love with it, and when I began painting wanted to do several paintings from the photos I took there. While moving I found the box of photo's from that trip, since Digital was new I still had to rely on 35mm at the time. Scanned this in to transfer to a canvas. The picture is of the harbor on St Thomas Island taken from the top of the boat.


While looking over it I saw some areas needed manipulated that just wouldn't work in a painting. Below is my result. I used a new looser technique than normal taking my plein air experience into account to let my freedom express.

The painting 8x10 Oil, St Tomas Island.

Carribbean Beach 16x20 Oil

Back to the ones from the early days.....maybe not.


My fiance had really liked a previous oval caribbean coast painting I had done for my mom and wanted to steal it. I told her I'd paint her one, only bigger. it's been 2 1/2 years since the last version and my talent has improved greatly over that time. This one was a lot of fun and turned out much better than the previous and is now hanging in our bedroom.

Countryside Coastal 10x14 Oil

Father's Day came around and I didn't want to do a plein air like on Mother's Day. I decided to take a page out of a friend of mine's book of creating a place from imagination. i wanted something very country-like while exhibiting the ocean as well. my fiance has decided that this was resembling somewhere in South Carolina or Maine. But definately Atlantic Coast. I've deemed it "Countryside Coastal". I plan to do a couple more out of imagination in the future. It was alot of fun and pushed me in my experience as an artist and the creativity we hold.

Saguaro National Park East 24x36 Oil

I was finally able to get around to doing a decent sized canvas. Wanting my first to explore the area in which we live, the Sonoran Desert. This one measuring 24x36



Working on this one just here and there between other paintings was my goal. I knew I could do this one Alla Prima but wanted to give it a session time. Making sure all my layers were laid in properly.

This is from the Saguaro National Park's trail off Broadway Blvd, in Tucson, Arizona. I wanted a view of the Tanque Verde and Catalina Mountains as well as several Saguaro's and Prickly Pears. I let this one get worked on occassionally over 4-5 weeks with only about several hours each session being spent on it. All in all it turned out quite nicely.

ARC Tropper 8x10 Oil

Star Wars Characters the saga continues..........wasnt' it just a few months ago it was Lord of the Rings coming out all the time in my paintings?????


Another in a series of Star Wars Character Art. This time for my boys. They really like Jedi and Clone Troopers. This Arc Trooper was painted at the request of my older two to hang in their room. My oldest son's favorite color is Red so he was done in Red and my middle child wants his done in either blue or orange.

Autumn Sonoita 8x10 Oil

A trip down south back in November we found several shades of yellow, orange, and brown. trying to capture some of that we took loads of photographs. Painted this one back in April. Fall in Southern Arizona's small town of Sonoita.

Master Yoda 8x10 Oil

My father in law really liked the R2-D2 I had done for my fiance and he was a fan of Yoda. So I painted this for him as his father's day gift. Master Yoda weilding his green lightsaber.

Desert Wash 9x12 Oil

Out with the old and in with the new......


....A painting that I didn't particularly like from years before needed to be painted over. Rather than waste a new canvas I thought of recycling one of my old ones I never liked.

This painting of a dry riverbed out in Tanque Verde floods every year during Summer Monsoons. But in the spring this 11 mile stretch of sand is lined with tall cottonwood trees and desert wildflowers.

Lone Saguaro 8x10 Oil

A lonely Saguaro Cactus is partially shaded by a small Palo Verde Tree wrapping around it's base. This is from a trip to the Saguaro National Park's Cactus Forrest. Where no matter where you look you see hundreds of these tall cactus' standing around.

Mt Lemmon Snowy Winter 5x7 Oil

Living in the desert it gets quite hot, extremely hot. Especially today on the longest day of the year, Summer Solstace! We experience temperatures in the 115's by early summer. But the winter which does get cold, but not that cold because you still have to run the air conditioning in your car during the day to stay cool. We decided back in December to get to a place less warm and more cool, fortunately for us we have one of the best mountain regions in Arizona. We took a trip up the mountain on a day it snowed and enjoyed sledding, playing in the snow (very rare for this far south), and snapping pictures. When we officially hit 100 a few weeks ago I needed to cool down, atleast in my head so I painted this from our trip six months ago!

Fountain Park 5x7 Oil

A trip from December to Fountain Hills, Arizona. This nice quiet and yet wonderful neck of Arizona. This park holds the worlds largest fountain that shoots up every hour from the center of the lake. Though not pictured here, the view of Red Rock and these Pines and the WWII Memorial in the background was picturesque. My Fiance who grew up in FH, AZ really enjoyed this one.

Halo 2 Master Chief 9x12 Oil

A follow up to a painting started almost two years ago.


I was going through my drawers of canvas' that I had stretched and found this at the bottom. I had begun this nearly two years ago and left it alone for a later re-working. I pulled it out on a night where I wasn't particularly inspired to paint and starting mixing and laying in my colors. I couldn't believe the amounts of variations of Ultramarine Blue, and Cad. Yellow Light and Pale I had to mix to create all the different greens, blues, and yellows, and browns for this piece. I worked on it for about 4 1/2 hours until it was completed. In the end I think it turned out quite nicely!!

Rose Garden Bush 5x7

This small pink rose bush was all alone in the hundreds of rose bushes at Tucson's Reid Park Rose Garden. I took artistic liscence and put a wall behind the bush to block out all the people standing around!

Sonoran Desert Camper 6x8 Oil

A camper in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona attempts to start a fire using a rib from a saguaro cactus!

Reid Park Plein Air 8x10 Oil

After nearly six months of having not been able to make it out to plein air, I finally made it out. Wasn't sure where to go but knew i had yet to do one at Reid Park. It was mothers day and there were lots of parties at the park, so many many people looking on. It was nice to be able to get out of the studio for a while and paint outdoors. I hope to make it out again next Sunday!

London Bridge Lake Havasu 6x8 Oil

London Bridge located at Lake Havasu in Arizona. I've never been here before, only place in AZ haven't been yet. Painted from a reference photo. Could use some tweaking here and there, but done for now!

R2-D2 8x8 Oil

My fiance is a huge R2D2 fan from Star Wars and had been asking for a long time for me to paint R2 for her. Both her and our boys love Star Wars and the kids were excited to see it made!

Anne Hathaway Portrait 6x8 Oil

Actress Anne Hathaway from the upcoming "Get Smart" movie best known from Princess Diaries movies. I felt she had a very photogenic face and and infectuous smile and needed to paint her. I enjoyed this very much and have decided to do another famous person portrait of either John Wayne or Matthew Mcchonahey.

Lonely Saguaro 5x7 Oil

A lonely Saguaro Cactus sits in the desert missing it's main trunk. from many angles this cactus has enormous character and itches to be painted. I will be repainting it soon in a larger scale from another angle plein-air. It lies inside the Saguaro National Park, AZ.

2008 Chevrolet Camaro 5x7 Oil

Camaro featured in Transformers Movie from the 08 Detroit Auto Show. 2008 Camaro Bumblebee! I enjoyed this one.

Helms Deep 9x12 Oil

Helms Deep from the Two Towers. Based loosly on Alan Lee's concept art for the film.

welcome sign heart shaped rock

On my fiance's birthday we went hiking up in Mt Lemmon. She found a heart-shaped rock and really wanted something painted on it for sitting next to our front door outside as a welcome sign. She took a picture of this ridge up ahead centering two ponderosa pines to either side. I then recently painted it in Oils and added a Welcome Sign to it. It now sits infront of our house!!! Thanks for looking!!!

Old Tucson Studios 9x12 Oil

Old Tucson Studios "high chapparel" film set. This was a warm day and I was actually out here this day to audition for a role. Needless to say, no role, but great pictures for a painting done later. I enjoy how this turned out as there is a calling for southwestern art in my area.

Leaning Sycamore Tree 6x8 Oil

A 400 year old Sycamore Tree that has hollowed out and is leaning over. I painted it from this angle to where it looks like it has an eye, a mouth, and eight limbs resembling an octopus or squid.

Pixar Cars Sign 12x16 Oil

A sign I did for my kids bedroom door. They all like Pixar's Cars so I decided to go with Lightning McQueen and Sally! Some details below...

Lightning Detail.

Sally Detail.

Logo Detail.

Courthouse and Jailhouse Rock 5x7 Oil

Nebraska's Courthouse and Jailhouse Rock located just off of the Oregon Trail which many migrants travelled in the mid 1800's seeking new land out west! This is done during a monsoon overcast day!

Sabino Canyon Saguaro 8x10 Oil

An interestingly grown Saguaro Cactus at the base of a hillside in Sabino Canyon. Above is a 50 foot cliff face that has spectacular views when climbed. Just 200 feet away from here is where I proposed to my fiance!

Shards of Narsil 5x7 Oil

The Shards of Narsil from the Lord of the Rings. Part of my series of LOTR paintings. More to follow in this series, inlcuding the reborn blade Anduril and legolas' white knives and Sting!

French Vineyard 5x7 Oil

A large cottage on a vineyard in france. I much enjoyed this one and plan on doing another vineyard painting from california or southern az soon.

Rose Painting on Heart Shaped Canvas 11x14 Oil

My fiance really wanted a rose painted for her for Valentine's Day so I took it one step further and cut out a heart-shaped board and stretched canvas over that. She really enjoyed it now I just need to figure out what for next years V-Day!

Big Sur 16x20 Oil

From the california northern coast in the area between Big Sur and Monterey. I enjoyed this one as my second large coastal. The colors weren't as rich as my previous and that was to be expected with cooler waters. Also the photo will need to be retaken to control the camera flash that left a glare in the mid-right of the frame.

Southern California Coast 16x20 Oil

This painting depicts a pier in a cove. This was done from a reference photo of Dana Point Harbor as it was being developed. The pier is all that is seen and the starting of the road going down. Today there are buildings and parking lots all over the beach front and a sandbar stretching out from the point. To the south you would find the harbor. I really enjoyed doing this one. I miss California very much and am looking forward to my return this summer.

Windy Point Rocks 12x16 Oil

A rock formation just above Windy Point on the Catalina Highway in Tucson on the way up Mt Lemmon. It was sunny and very tall happy structure. How could I not paint it?

Cali Lily 3.5x5 Oil

Another attempt at a very small painting, although back to canvas! I decided that since I had done a lily before I would do a different lily!

Cherry Blossoms 2x3 Oil

Here is my second glass painting. They were both done at 2x3 because I was worried about the glass breaking over time. It was also kind of fun because I had never painted anything smaller than 5x7 before.

Cherry's 2x3 Oil

I decided to do something different and try painting on glass instead of canvas. I only did two of these on glass, and while I found it interesting and different I don't plan to do anymore on glass. Canvas is much easier to work with and for me I find that it dries too slow on glass compared to canvas. I'll stick to canvas even though these were fun!!

Sonoita Inn 5x7 Oil

This is a bed and breakfast in southern arizona. it was done during monsoon so it was overcast with no shadows, I took artistic liscense and changed that around.

Steelers Logo 6x8 Oil

The logo for the Pittsburgh Steelers overtop the stripes from the uniforms sleeves. This was painted for my uncle for his birthday. Unfortunately it wasn't dry intime so it will have to be late.

Tree Hand 16x20 Oil stretched

A tree resembling a hand reaching out of the ground from Patagonia, AZ. It was painted in winter and most winters down there resemble autumn hence the leaves still being orange/brown on the tree.

Lily 9x12 Oil

A red lilly to go with our bathroom motife! We had an arrangement of fake lilly's in our master bath that was arranged by my mother in law and we thought what would be better than a painting on one to complement.

Sycamore Leaf 5x7 Oil

A study of a sycamore leaf!

Marines Logo 6x8 Oil

I did this painting for my father-in-law who was in the Marines. I hope he enjoys it!

Twin Trees 6x8 Oil

These two sycamores from just before autumn were right next to each other and from on angle looked to be so identical. Sure there are differences but still had a story to tell. Some of the leaves had already started turning when I did this one.

Superman Highlight 6x8 Oil

A highlighted saturated painting of Superman from the Superman Returns movie. I had seen a movie poster done like this sometime before the movie came out and it gave me the idea to do a painting similar to that.

Agua Caliente Park Plein Air 9x12 Oil

We decided to take a day at the park and watch and feed the ducks. Megan and I picknicked for the afternoon and as the sun was getting ready to set, she layed back and began to read a book while I painted. It was early November when I did this so the ducks had since left to a warmer area of the park by this point. I had hoped to have had some of them in the painting. Maybe next time.

Stone Henge 12x24 Oil

Stone Henge, a place I've had a fascination with all my life. I wanted to present it onto canvas originally to fit into an opening on a shelf that was only as big as the canvas. since then I've decided to keep this one with many others for my home show this summer!!