Painting

Painted August 2020. 16′ x 12″. Acrylic on Canvas. $225.00 Canadian – Framed. In early Spring, we cleared an acre of blackberry brambles in preparation for cabin building. I wasn’t sure what would re-establish itself over the summer, but I didn’t expect to see a number of tall wild sunflowers. Since we needed to have […]

 Painted June – July 2020.  ″34.5 x 29″. Acrylic on Canvas. $905.00 Canadian – Unframed. Just North of the highway on my parent’s ranch is a grove of Poplars full of childhood memories. Inside the grove there is a stillness,  away from the constant wind blowing down off the Rockies. Despite this seeming calm, the wind is

Painted April 2020.  12″ x 12″. Acrylic on Canvas This view of the Rockies, is at the top of a hill right behind the house I grew up in. It holds a lot of memories for me. Late winter, brings a warm breeze off the Rockies that starts the snow melting along with the first signs

12”x24”. Pencil on cradled wood panel The start of any new painting is always full of potential. I know that there will be high points and low points before the painting is done. My excitement is akin to riding a roller coaster as the cars leave the station and begins to climb.This particular painting is

SOLD. Winter Freedom.  Painted April 2020, modified November 2021.  18″ x 24″. Acrylic on Canvas. One of the cool things about painting with Acrylic is how almost any mistake can be corrected.  Back at the beginning of the pandemic, I tackled a very challenging painting of a white horse running through a snowy field in winter.  Horses have always

Mitch Portrait – #1 (21). 24 cm. x 19 cm. Acrylic on Canvas Mitch Portrait – #2 (20). 50 cm. x 40 cm. Acylic on Canvas Mitch at the Farmers’ Market. (27) 50 cm. x 50 cm. Acrylic on Canvas. “Mitch in Uruguay”. (39). 12″x12″. Acrylic on Cradled Wood Panel It’s been interesting to look

Painted February 2019.  30 cm. x 40 cm. Acrylic on Canvas A friend posted this unusual picture of him swimming in Hawaii.  The angle that the photo was taken really felt like you were right there with the swimmer.  This was a little painting that started with a graphite drawing that I loved (very moody, with storm clouds

Painted December 2017.   16″x20  .Acrylic on Canvas.  This was the first time that I tried to do a second painting of any given subject. This is a painting of Texada taken from our friend’s cabin directly across the strait of Malaspina. The original painting is #12 below. Since I decided that I’ll always keep my first painting, I

Painted August 2017. 12″x16″ Acrylic on Stretched Canvas Although I had done a few paintings before this, I consider this my first real painting in my long journey to becoming a painter. As my first ever painting and holding a place near and dear to my heart, it’s the only painting that I’ve decided to