Happy October everyone! ☺

My painting has a new home at The Dawn Treader Christian School. Very happy about this.

Happy fall everyone.

Working on a sunset painting.

"Summers End"

Art Classes

Many times while teaching, I'll do a small painting of the work a student is doing. I think students gain more insight by watching a painting develop.

Making progress on "Montezuma Castle National Monument."

Community School Demo-12x16

"Giant Cloud"

"Twilight." A painting I did 15 years ago. I might have been channeling Frederic Church at the time.☺

Making some progress-Kolob Arch, Zion National Park.

"Twilight, Short Arbiter Twixt Day And Night."

Everyone in the world should look at the meaning behind this famous painting by Frederic Church: "Twilight, Short Arbiter Twixt Day And Night." Painted in 1850. I can't help but be moved by it, and relate to what's happening in the world to...day. The ominous sky and pending storm are symbolic for social turmoil and unrest. In Church's time, many feared the country was headed for civil war. Church felt that the "paradise" that was America was indeed on it's way to being "lost."
"Short Arbiter Twixt Day and Night," is based on a section from "Paradise Lost" by Milton.

 

                                                      

One of the stops on our vacation was Montezuma Castle--it was amazing! I'm finally getting a chance to paint it. . Blocked in all the color shapes and did a little work on the foreground--about two hours in.

http://www.nps.gov/moca/index.htm

Painting from sketches of the kolob Arch at Zion National Park. Visiting Zion National Park was so amazing!

It's always nice when you sell a painting.

Dunkerhook Park 2013

"Fort Lee New Jersey" 12x16

" The Berkshires" 16x20

" Resting " 14x18

The younger years--painting outside.