Paint Your Joy!

At the Portrait Society of America conference a few years ago, Robert Liberace critiqued my portfolio and changed my life. My beloved frie...

You think I'm cheating, but I'm not. This is the teaser ad for Workshop magazine, currently on the last page of the June issue of A...

This scene will not be around a lot longer. The barn looks like it will welcome a change; so tired. There are working farms all over this ar...

This is the site of the morning painting of Tuesday's paint-out. Judy and I were in a field beside a busy road and were plagued by drive...

This is the product of my paint-out yesterday afternoon. I was being harassed by mosquitoes and had several kamikaze gnats fly into the ...

I came so close to making it under the wire by midnight! but alas, 2 minutes short. I spent the day with a dear friend of mine, Judy Crowe,...

This is a very harsh picture of my painting of Lauren. She is the girl who sat for us last week, and since we did not meet today (Easter M...

This is part of the view from Jakey Ranch in Wyoming. It was the beginning of autumn and in the 6x8 format, I wanted to show the massive mou...

I painted this little 8x6 on a very, very windy day at Wagon Box Ranch, WY. I was with my friend, Jeanne Mackenzie, backed up against a barn...

This week we painted a young woman who has modeled for us before. Her mother's a painter so she has had plenty of modeling practice. I w...

Here is the finished painting of the Ancient Mariner of the Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival.

I participated in a portrait demo at the Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival on Saturday, painting this wonderful model. When he saw it, the mo...

Green apples painted on a grocery bag.

One day, I was at the grocery store and I met a vision that took my breath away. Literally. Her name was Esther and she was behind the deli ...

I have so many paintings at various stages of incompletion right now, including this one. I have two unfinished paintings of this model, as ...