The third (and maybe last) in my Our Favorite Tree series. This one nearly did me in. All the leaves are tiny pieces of paper.

20" x 20" Acrylic and paper mixed media.

A good-sized atmospheric piece based on a photo I took in Northern Ireland at The Giant’s Causeway National Trust Site.

36” x 48” oil on canvas (gallery wrapped). Contact me for current display location and price.

A few hours into the drive from Portland to Bend, you look up into the sky and see something like this.

28 x 22 oil on canvas.

An experiment with what leaves might look like if you drop liquid acrylic paint from head height onto a canvas on the floor. They look like drops. But I like the effect and had fun with this favorite subject - the maple tree at the Portland Japanese Garden.

28 x 22 acrylic on canvas.

A winter setting for the Three Sisters. Mountains by palette knife. Oil on Canvas. 40” x 16”

Oil on Canvas, 40” x 16”

This is a simplified version of a photo from the Seacliff pier which took a real beating in the spring 0f 2023. I doubt if it is open to the public yet, if it ever will be.

Acrylic, 16 x 20

I was fussing over this when I woke up and simplified the heck out of it. I like it now.

Acrylic, 16 x 20 gallery wrap.

Acrylic Inks on Wood Panel. 18” x 24”, 2” depth. A good surfing point on the Central Oregon Coast.

Acrylic Ink on Wood, 36” x 12,” Gloss Varnish. The wiggly lines are the wood grain showing through.

This is what you think it is.

Oil on canvas, 16 x 20

There’s a little beach down a flight of stairs by Yaquina Head Lighthouse on the Central Oregon Coast. The sound of the surf crashing on the odd, round black stones of this secluded beach must be experienced. Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 plus black frame.

Oil on canvas, 36” x 24”

Aptos is south of Capitola, which is south of Santa Cruz. It’s my favorite place. I have painted it before, but not this specifically. Here you can see the pier with the old cement ships that were scuttled at the end to make extra space for seabirds to rest. The ships don’t look like that now. They took quite a beating in recent winters.

A large format piece: 36" x 48." Looks great on an impressively large wall. Especially if you're a fan of the Deschutes River Falls Trail outside Bend, Oregon. Oil on canvas, palette knife application.

This is the reward for getting up early - a walk in colored fog.

36” x 24” Oil on Canvas. Contact me for price.

Layered cut paper collage of a labradoodle. The collage is set against a watercolor impression of the Three Sisters and Broken Top Mountain. Ask me about dog portrait commissions.

Hermione was part of an exhibit raising awareness of the Humane Society for Southwest Washington. I chose to depict her from an array of photos of recent “guests” at the Humane Society. Hermione is made from 20 layers of cut paper, laid on a acrylic background.

Based on a photo I took of a rocky hillside sheep pasture on the Scotland coast. I like to think that the sheep wrote the rules but I can’t be sure…

Mixed Media on paper 14” x 11” in 20” x 16” frame.

Oil on canvas (palette knife application). 36" x 48"

I highly recommend visiting Smith Rock State Park outside Terrebonne, Oregon. Try a spring or fall weekday. The park can be over-loved on summer weekends with both casual hikers and serious rock climbers, but on those days when the crowds are thin and the sky is clear, it makes for a memorable day. Like this one was.

Watercolor on cotton paper. 14 x 10. This view of the Three Sisters (plus Broken Top Mountain) is the same but different every day.

And now for something completely different. Digital painting of the angel of death who I imagine napped as I battled cancer in 2019. It started as a tattoo design and morphed into this. Available in varying prints and sizes. Contact me for details.

I can see this view from a favorite window in my sister’s house. Except the scene below is overbuilt and overrun by vacationers and locals. This is how I imagine it looked at one time.

Acrylic Ink on Wood. 36” x 12”

This buffalo has seen major changes in his surroundings. Physically and metaphorically. This canvas used to look much more conventional, then one day it became this.

Oil on gallery wrapped canvas, 36” x 24”

Look up!

Oil on gallery wrapped canvas (palette knife application) 24” x 48”

This is an impression of some castle ruins we visited in the highlands of Scotland. The mist was rolling in and it couldn’t have been more romantic looking.

Oil on gallery wrapped canvas (palette knife application) 48” x 30”

Watercolor on paper, 14" x 20ish" 

When you buy a tyrannosaurus, you've got to get it home. Just something to think about.

Acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas, 36” x 24”

I couldn’t sleep after watching too many episodes of the Great British Baking Show. I envisioned how I might apply paint by piping it on like icing. The next day, hijinks ensue.

36" x 24" Oil on gallery wrapped canvas

An impression of the view of the highlands from the highway that crosses the north coast of Scotland. The mountain is called Ben Hope.

Early morning driving through the woods by the Metolius River with bonus bear. Oil on canvas. 20" x 20"

Mixed Media on paper mounted on wood, 12” x 12”

One of my favorite mixed media pieces. It looks impressive here, but it is actually quite petite. Fits anywhere!

Watercolor impression of a photo of a slot canyon along the Fiery Furnace trail in Arches National Park in Utah.

11' x 14"

For my firefighting family. Oil on canvas. 20" x 16"

Oil on Canvas. 18" x 24"

View of a barn in the Felida neighborhood of Vancouver, Washington. Torn down in 2016 for a housing subdivision. This has been a popular print. Ask me about sizes in stock, or I can have custom size prints made on request.

The colors of the rocks in Sedona can be startling - the reds up against the greens of the junipers. But if you look up sometimes it's even more breathtaking. A medium-sized piece at 18" x 24." Oil on gallery-wrapped canvas (palette knife application).

I little bitty guy, just 8 x 10. A memento of Haystack Rock in semi-transparent acrylic inks on wood. You can see the wood grain in the beach sand, the waves and the sky.

You can find this view in a boat off the Na Pali Coast of Kauai. Or maybe you remember it from an adventure of your own. Oil on gesso board, palette knife application. 24" x 18."

Orcas Island Dawn is based on a photo I took at a viewpoint in Moran State Park on Orcas Island. The photo was kind of other-worldly. One of those photos that are stranger than fiction. So I thought it would work well in this slippery, hard-to-control medium I’ve created of using acrylic inks directly on wood.

Oil on canvas (palette knife application). 24" x 30"

Nutrias are like less industrious beavers with rat tails. I knew an albino nutria once. We called him The Oracle. I painted him with a Tarot card so there would be no confusion with other albino nutrias (nutrii?).

I don’t remember why I painted him with one of this region’s most iconic Native American petroglyphs, Tsagaglalal, or “She Who Watches,” located on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge. Maybe because they both held secrets.

A good day in the leaves. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20. Prints available on request.

Oil on canvas (palette knife application). 30" x 30" I blogged about this one some time ago. At the time, I didn't think all of my experiments on it worked out, but it has grown on me since in all its lumpiness.

Oil on canvas (brush application). Not for sale.

I read a story in a Colorado newspaper about a firefighter “helping” a bear cub out of a homeowner’s tree. I wondered where the mom was and why she wasn’t “helping” the firefighter lose an arm or face.

I love bears. They are the cutest deadly animal. I painted the up-a-tree cub in my front yard with my personal firefighter.

Art is the original photoshop.

Oil on canvas. 36" x 24" (Not for sale)

Being on the beach on a sunny day makes you want to wrestle your loved one.

Oil on canvas (palette knife application). Framed. Canvas 24" x 18"

Big Sur is every bit as great as people say. Be prepared for wind and views that go on forever until they disappear in the windblown mist.

24" x 18" oil on canvas (palette knife application)

There is a state park on the California coastline just north of Santa Cruz called Wilder Ranch. There is a trail along the cliffs that you can walk or ride a bike. It’s one of my favorite places on the earth. I take this same photograph every time I go, and I will probably attempt to paint the feeling of the place many more times.

The view from my favorite dog walking trail, Indian Ford Meadow. Oil on Canvas.

Oil on canvas (palette knife application). 20" x 16"

Every leaf is a blob applied via palette knife. It is difficult to photograph and even more difficult to paint. But the effect is very textural and, well, effective.

A rare watercolor. This is a heron that lived on Salmon Creek where I used to walk. He was not a friend. More of an acquaintance. 16 x 20 with frame.

My photographs of Capitola always look too gray. This is how they should look. Now I can see the breeze, the negative ions, and the birds running back and forth along the edge of the water. I hope you can see them too. Acrylic on Canvas. 16 x 20.

2014 Oil on canvas (palette knife application) 20" x 20," gallery-wrapped canvas.

Looking up through the evergreen canopy in a Redwood forest. If you haven't done it in a while, I recommend it.

2015 Oil on canvas 12" x 12." Not for sale.

Oil on Canvas. 20" x 20" 

Pilot Butte is a cinder cone in the middle of Bend, Oregon that has been preserved as a park. If you hike to the top on a clear day, you can see a line-up of mountains marching north to south along the Cascade Range. Sometimes, late in summer, you can only see smoke in a hundred hues of yellow/orange/brown. 

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas. 40 x 16. Time is getting away from me. The mountains are endless.

You're spinning along a road in the fall and the colors just keep coming at you. That's the inspiration behind this good-sized canvas. It's 30" x 40," oil on gallery-wrapped canvas (palette knife application).

I took a walk along the cliffs of the Giant’s Causeway area of the coast of Northern Ireland and this is what I saw, translated through acrylic inks on a wooden gallery board. With any luck, you can see the wood grain through the transparent inks.

Acrylic Ink on Wood, 14” x 18”

Oil on canvas (palette knife application). 24" x 18"

This road leads up to a magnificent view. I chose to paint the road instead of the magnificent view. Go figure.

An impression of a hike on Eagle Creek Trail a few years before the Eagle Creek fire of 2017. A good remembrance of the trail that used to be. 

Layered cut paper collage with cut paper background. This is Raider the Greyhound. Your dog is a Work of Nature. Make him or her a Work of Art. Ask me about commissions.

Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas. 36" x 12"

Is it how the lighthouse feels to me, or is it how the lighthouse feels inside? You decide.

Acrylic Ink on wood. 48" x 12" 

There's a pullout on Highway 1 along the Oregon Coast when you are almost at your destination. This is what you see.

This is acrylic ink directly on bare wood. You can see the wood grain through the ink, which makes it a one-of-a-kind piece. I will be making more like this, but each one will be a little different depending on what the grain of the wood suggests.

Sold. Ask me about commissioning a similar piece.

This is Cash the Late Greyhound painted in acrylics as he lay in the sun. He was dumb and beautiful. Ask me about pet commissions in your choice of media - cut paper collage, acrylic, oil, or watercolor.

An impression of the beautiful Pacific Northwest from Washington up through Canada to Alaska. Acrylic Ink on Wood. 18” x 14”

Although I have sold the original, the print has proven to be popular. This is a well-known maple tree in the Japanese Gardens in Portland, Oregon.

A view of the Three Sisters and Broken Top Mountain done in Watercolor. Ask me about commissioning a similar work.

Sorry to see this one go - it was a favorite of mine. Acrylic on wood.

Sometimes it feels right to simplify images down to their component parts.

The wood panel dictates the details of this view, as the wood grain becomes part of the art. I will keep painting this view as long as I can find interesting wood panels. Acrylic ink on wood.

Late fall in Indian Ford Meadow. Acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas. 40” x 16”