Island Lake

Recently completed I do like this small landscape, the first I've done without wildlife for awhile. It is 16x20. The photo makes it look somewhat more reddish than actual. Done from a photograph in a Tucker Smith book who is a great painter living in Pinedale, Wyoming. This is the Wind River Mountain Range.

The Last Apple

This is a 14x18 which Peg likes, hope you might too. Bob Kuhn painted some interesting black bears once in awhile so thought I would and it turned out well. As you might guess I left the apple out of the painting so you might have something to wonder about. Making you work a little for this one.

60 Below

This is a 16x20 of a wolverine which worked out very nicely. Kind of an unusual subject that I've rarely if ever seen painted by well known wildlife painters. Don't know why unless they only paint what they've seen and these animals are really rare. Ever seen one on a zoo? I've seen two, one north of McCall, Idaho and one in the Yukon on my trip there in 2005.

Wall Street

This is an 18x24 I recently finished in which I finally painted a decent cariboo. With recent financial disasters I decided to call it "Wall Street".

Been gone for awhile

My brother Mike said I hadn't been on the blog for awhile so that I'd add a few paintings I'd done in last couple months.

Aspen

Here's one of the two paintings I did for a lady I met on jury duty this winter. It's 16x20 and a painting of her pet bobcat "Aspen". I actually got paid for it as well as another painting of her pet lynx "Willow".

Shore Lunch

This one's called "Shore Lunch" 18x24. Painting seagulls is more difficult than it looks.

Another Jack Favorite

This is an 18x24 called "Return Of The Brants". I thought it turned out rather nice.

One of Jack's Favorites

Sent my son Jack a disc of paintings and this was one of his favorites. Hope you like it.

Turn On A Dime

Not yet sure about the title but always wonder where these old sayings come from. This 18x24 turned out pretty nice. Met a lady on jury duty recently who wants a couple paintings of her pet bobcat and lynx (can you believe somebody has these?) Anyway, thought I'd try a bobcat in action and see how it went. You be the judge.

Desert Songs

I like this 18x24 recent painting titled "Desert Songs". I put together elements from four different source materials...of course the coyote but also the distant mountains and cactii from last years trip to Arizona. Threw in the snowy effect for the heck of it.

There Goes The Neighborhood

Here's an 18x24 painting titled "There goes the neighborhood". I like the fun titles and it turned out fairly nice.

Upper Roman Nose Lake

Decided to paint a pure landscape without an animal this time. This 24x24 painting is of Upper Roman Nose Lake in Northern Idaho. It's hard to capture the starkness of a high mountain lake and still have some reasonable color that makes it interesting.

Backyard Fox

Guess I like to paint the fox since I have them living in the backyard and they like the hot dogs I leave out for them. This painting is 16x20.