Recent Carvings

I guess it's like the plumber's leaky sink - my paintings don't get framed, the decoys are in my studio rather than on the mantle and I always wait until the last minute to have Amy photograph my finished work. I think back on all of the carvings that I made and sold when I was carving full-time. I probably photographed less than 5% of the total. Well, these at least made it to the portfolio (thanks to Amy)!

Blue winged teal decoy (male)
-hollow white cedar and oil paint


Northern Shoveler (male)
- hollow white cedar and oil paint


Thanks for looking.

Recent Bird Paintings

Common Yellowthroat - 2009 - oil on panel

Blue Jay - 2008 - oil on panel

Onions 2008

I hadn't ever thought much about onions being interesting until trying to paint one. The depth of color resulting from light shining on the translucent layers of skin provide many possible interpretations.

The painting with the tomato can was started over 10 years ago at Chris Pugliese's old studio. I pulled it off of the shelf primarily as an excuse to paint the contrasting letters and shapes on the white can. It took me half a day to locate the same can of tomatos. I found the can at the same vegetable stand that I purchased the original 10 years ago - probably should have checked there first...

Some old stuff...

These were painted before I had a day job. I rarely got out of bed before 8:00 am back then. Those were the days!