Painting in Progress

Painting in Progress (detail)

Painting in Progress (detail)

Detail within the painting.

Painting in Progress

More drawing has been added to the 3' by 4' canvas. Adjustments and decisions will be made once the actual painting process begins.

Painting in Progress

This is the start of a charcoal sketch on a 3' by 4" stretched canvas. I use vine charcoal because it can be dusted off easily to make adjustments.

Apertures

Acrylic 16x20" + frame

This piece is available at Artisans' Gallery in Laramie, WY. 307-745-3983

I enjoyed looking through the frame onto the weathered exterior wall, through the window into the first room of the shed, through the interior doorway to the second room, and through both the old screen door (which was partly ajar) and the exterior doorway to the farm yard beyond.

Vibrant Panorama

Original pastel, 22"x28" $1100

I have purposely placed complementary colors side by side for color vibration. Some people refer to this as colors dancing.

This work is available at Artisans' Gallery in Laramie, Wyoming. Purchase inquiries may be made at 307-745-3983

Roadside Vanishings

Pastel on sandpaper, 22" x 27"

Alongside a secondary highway with obsolete telephone poles, all vanishing into the distance, or is it soon to be the past?

Threadiing the Needle

Pastel, 12x15" on sandpaper

This is another entry into the PSNR show to be held in Hamilton, Montana next month.

Cross Contour

Original pastel, 10x12.5 inches on sandpaper

This small still life is entered in the Pastel Society of the Northern Rockies' show to be held next month at the Frame Shop & Gellery in Hamilton, Montana.

Quirky & Quaint

Oil, 11"x 14" on canvas
Small shop on 15th Street near downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming
This is currently for sale at Deselms Fine Art in Cheyenne. You may click on the link on my blog to access their gallery.

First Methodist Church 1890

I have been painting in a plein air competition in Cheyenne, Wyoming the past week. The shapes and textures of this old sandstone church caught my eye.

acrylic, 11x14"

SOLD

Beneath the Surface

original watercolor, 11x15"

This is also entered in the Centennial Valley Art Show in Centennial, WY, July 2-4

Mountain High

original pastel, 22x28"

$1200  SOLD

Work in Progress

Pastel in progress, 22x28" on sandpaper

Fe, Big Iron #535

SOLD to the Cheyenne Depot Museum Foundation. This pastel will be part of the Museum's permanent collection.

Pastel, 22x28" on sandpaper

Tender-Historical Texture

SOLD

Entry for Cheyenne Depot Museum Foundation Railroad Art Competition

Pastel, 22"x28" on sand paper

Pastel in Progress

This is the final work I am making for the railroad show. At this stage, you can see the unfinished underpainting at the bottom of the page.

Pastel on sand paper, 22x28"

Fe, Big Iron #535

SOLD to the Cheyenne Depot Museum Foundation. This pastel will be on permanent
display in the Museum.

Pastel on sandpaper, 22x28"

The Cheyenne Depot Museum Foundation is currently having a Railroad Art Competition and Sale. All entries will be on display throughout the months of June and July. This painting received second place overall.

Pastel in Progress

Pastel on sandpaper.

22x28"