.....favorite quote

'we have to teach our eyes to look at nature, and many of us who have never seen it and never will'.....
-Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin

Thursday, December 29, 2011




Finally finished the painting of the OU campus and the client was very pleased and the wife was thrilled with her anniversary suprise!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

I am almost at the end of this journey and although it's been a challenge I have enjoyed every step of what I have learned. I wish you could see all the little vingnettes in this huge painting and the story that it tells and the legends of thecampus. There a few little secrets in this painting that the client will not know about until he searches for them.......I know... sneaky

Saturday, December 17, 2011

update with the clock tower done and working on the trees and Spoon Monument

Friday, December 16, 2011


FINALLY finished the Evans Hall building and worked on the statue in front of it which isn't quite completed but it will be in a few hours. The rest should go much faster now that the bulk of the painting is complete. Pray I get this done by the 29th.......yea, this month!

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Not sure if I posted this one before but this little beauty went to the Louisiana State Archives Building for their show in Baton Rouge LA. This is probably the largest drawing I have ever done. The actual drawing itself (not the paper) is 22x30 and framed ....well it's huge. I am praying that she wins something as I put in over 100 hours on it and a lot of love. Cross your fingers!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

New commission....

It has been quite a while since I have posted and it's been a really crazy time and very busy for me. I have been working on commissions and getting through with teaching at the college. I did finish a landscape painting size 4 ft. x6 ft. and trying to finish up a collage a bit larger. Hopefully I can start painting daily on my own small works after this is done, which is my goal and gear up for 2012. WOW! The holidays are creeping up fast and I still don't have all the things done that I wanted to accomplish but hey ! what are deadlines for? They keep me moving.......started palette knife painting and I love it. stil blocking in quite a bit but here is one of the two that I am working on. collage of OU campus