Cross No. 3

No. 3 was painted November 2009.

Untitled No. 24

No. 24 was painted November 2009

Void No. 1

Void No. 1 was painted October 2009. I'm excited to explore this series.

Place No. 14

No. 14 was painted October 2009

Place No. 15

No. 15 was painted October 2009

Untitled No. 25

No. 25 was painted in 2008?

Untitled No. 24

No. 24 was painted in October 2009.

Untitled No. 23

No. 23 was painted in October 2009

Untitled No. 22

No. 22 was painted October 2009.

Place No. 13

No. 13 was painted in July 2009.

Details: Cross No. 2

One of my favorite details...

Place No. 12

No. 12 was finished in June 2009. My wife commissioned this one for our newly redecorated bedroom. One of my new favorites.

Still Life No. 4

Still Life No. 4 was painted June 2009.

From the Archives: Stillness

Stillness was painted by in 2006? - still a favorite piece...

Untitled No. 21

No. 21 was completed May 2009.

Details: Place No. 9b

I've got four paintings in the works right now but nothing is ready to post, so here's another close up to tide me over. My favorite part of painting is watching small details emerge that I have little or no control over. Sometimes these details disappear under subsequent layers of paint, sometimes they stay on top and become part and parcel of the final composition. Whenever I look at paintings I always notice the little things and sometimes they end up justifying the whole endeavor.

From the Archives

This painting is probably 10 years old by now. One of my first successful large paintings. I think it measures 30 inches by 40 inches. My boss liked it so much that it ended up in her office. I made sure she took it home when she retired. It looks great in her vaulted-ceiling living room. My inspiration for this piece was a quiet abstract piece by Ed Corbett, a California painter who ended up in Taos, New Mexico. He was a definite influence on Richard Diebenkorn in the early 50s. Corbett never got the attention he deserved and is often referred to as a painter's painter. The USU Art Museum has two of his pieces.

Untitled No. 20

No. 20 is 7 1/4 inches wide and approximately 8 inches long.

Place No. 11 (Green Sky)

No. 11 is 7 1/2 inches wide and 9 3/4 inches tall.

Details: Place No. 9a

Close up of Place No. 9 - Click image for more detail.

Place No. 10

Place No. 10 was finished April 2009. This one is not for sale on Etsy, but will be available at the Cache Valley's Farmer's Market later this summer.

From the Archives

My wife, Sharon, hosts a Friday Flashback on her blog and embeds a great video from the 80's or 90's that puts to shame anything being recorded today (Except for Confuse the Cat, Interpol, Snowden, Department of Eagles.) Anyway, here's a painting I did as a junior or senior at Utah State almost 10 years ago. At the time I was experimenting with a gesso/joint compound application on canvas. Once the shapes were established (long live masking tape) I would dye the painting with different acrylic washes. This was one of my first successes. I used to make lots of these, but they chip really easily and you only get a couple of chances to get it right. I'm a major revisionist and love to fix, fix, fix so I moved on to other techniques. This is still one of my favorites.

Place No. 9

No. 9 measures approximately 7.5 inches wide by 9 3/4 inches tall. It was painted with acrylic paint on acid free paper and then varnished. I painted No. 9 in March 2009.

Untitled No. 19

I finished No. 19 in March 2009. It measures approximately 7 1/16 inches by 6 7/8 inches. It was painted with acrylic on acid free paper and then varnished. It has a 1/4 inch white border for matting or framing. This started out as a painting exercise but the final result was very satisfying.

Untitled No. 18

Untitled No. 18 was finished March 2009. It measures 7 1/4 inches wide and 9 1/2 inches long. No. 18 was painted with acrylic paint on acid free paper. This is the second time I tried this composition and the colors are much better this time around.