Herbal Ducky (Click here to view eBay results)

Here is my third Rubber Ducky up for auction. They are still the favorite of anything else I've painted. I don't want to become known as the rubber ducky painter, so I'm going to hold off painting another for a couple of months. I would rather be known as the old crappy cutting board painter instead. Just kidding, I need to find a new cutting board too. Click on the image for a larger view.

Wyoming Field (Click here to view eBay results)

On our way way up from Rock Springs Wyoming, to Jackson Hole, we passed many gates like these that held cattle, horses, and oil dericks. Some had no tresspassing signs and other s said no hunting allowed. All of them were looked like the roads into them went for miles before they reached any houses. Click on the image for a larger view.

Snow Covered Meadow (Click here to view eBay results)

This is the third painting from reference I shot while at the Teton National Forest in Jackson Hole. Click on the image for a larger view.

Glen Canyon Scene (Click here to view eBay results)

Here's the second piece I painted since getting settled in Pheonix. I haven't had time to go out to plien air paint yet, but I'm getting warmed up on a few of these first. Click on the image for a larger view.

Teton Creek (Click here to view eBay results)

Here's my first painting from shots I took while on our trip to Arizona. It unfortunately was a grey dull day, but within those conditions you can still take advantage of the conditions and paint the subject with it's own characteristics...blued backgrounds and monochromatic colors. Click on the image for a lrger view.

Peach Wedges in a Pear Bowl (Click here to view eBay results)

Here is a warm version of a bowl of peach wedges in a pear shaped bowl. Click on the image for a larger view.

Eggshells (Click here to view eBay results)

This is a study in neutral greys. Trying to mix the subtle differences in the eggshell white and the warmer pinkish inside color, all against the warm blue and greenish surface colors. The only colors with some chroma is the spot of yoke. Chroma is a measurement of richness or saturation of color. Click on the image for a larger view.

Bagel with strawberry jam (Click here to view eBay results)

This is one of my favorite desserts. Luckily we don't keep them around very often. I don't have time to toast them. I'm usually too imapatient to chomp into them if it's me that's making them, but if I had a choice, I would want one toasted with a thin layer of cream cheese, and then the jelly. I should never type these descriptions when I'm hungry.

Orange #5 (Click here to view eBay results)

Here's one of my favorite subjects. I know alot of artist paint apples, pears, and peaches, but for me the transparentness of the meat to the ochre colored inner rind can give you all the variety you want for texture and color. Click on the image for a larger view.

Pan of Caramel Apples (Click here to view eBay results)

This is a painting fo a pan full of Caramel apples that I shot reference on last summer at a carnival. I have some other paintings planned from that night, but I'm hoping they will be on a bigger scale. Although the photograph of the painting doesn't show it, I finally got a good deep layer of paint applied to this one. The feel of moving more paint onto the surface to achieve the same look is surprising. The colors are richer in a deeper colored way. With the paint not being so thin, the white of the panel is toally covered. With thinner paint, light travels thru the paint and bounces off the white of the gessoed surface to lighten the whole painting. I like drama of the lights and darks that I control here. Click on the image for a larger view.

Starbucks Dessert (Click here to view eBay results)

This is the third painting I've produced from a trip we took to Starbucks last summer. I have to get out more, and to places other than Starbucks. Click on the image for a larger view.

Bacon, Eggs, and Toast (Click here to view eBay results)

I searched back in my archives of photos again to find a shot I took of a plate of bacon, eggs and taost. This is from the same batch of photos I took of the stack of pancakes and the other eggs and taost that I painted before. I have to get out and shoot some more set ups. Even I'm tired of the ochre tabletops. Click on the image for a larger view.

Tootsie Pop (Click here to view eBay results)

Here's a painting of a Tootsie Pop. Not only one of my favorite candies, it's also my favorite flavor. The commercial that they ran years ago about the question," did you bite?" was a classic. I'm still tempted, but I'm proud to say I never do. I cringe when I hear little five year olds, that never saw the commercial, crunch down on one in the first minute. Click on the image for a larger view.

Creek with Sandbar (Click here to view eBay results)

This is a scene of a creek in an area called Elfin Ranch south of San Marcos California, in a quiet canyon in the hills above Torrey Pines and Del Mar. I went there with Dave Darrow looking for a place to plein air paint, but eventually left for the beach at La Jolla. We painted at La Jolla both days, but I did get alot of shots of this quiet creek before we left. It has everything a painter would want. Clean water, rushing and still pools, massive rocks in the creek and walls of rock stacked on the side from centuries of erosion and all kinds of plants and trees. Click on the image for a larger view.

The Wall (Click here to view eBay results)

Here's another painting of one of the scenes from Monument Valley from our trip in 2004. It's an amazing array of formations all within a few miles of each other in the north eastern corner of Arizona. Click on the image for a larger view.

Chicken Vegetable Soup AVAILABLE

I was really worried about trying to paint soup. I shot this reference a couple of months ago, and had it setting on my desktop all this time and just about started it a couple of times. I like the color and the feeling of the salty taste of the tangy vegetables and meat. My second concern is always the perspective of the bowl. I never trace these images onto a panel, matter of fact, the most fun I have now with a painting is blocking it in and establishing the drawing of the object as correctly as I can, but I have to admit, exact drawing isn't fun. I call that rendering and I hope to only do that in illustration projects. These are paintings for me with the hope that people won't look the other way just because the elipse of a bowl is a little off. Click on the image for a larger view

Wonderbread (Click here to view eBay results)

I've been wanting to do bread in a shiny bag for a long time..why not wonderbread. It's the biggest brand in our part of the country, I hope people from other parts of the world realize how it's been a part of our lives around here for decades. Click on the image for a larger view.

Double Cheeseburger (Click here to view eBay results)

Before ordering the chocolate dip cone yesterday, we shared a double cheeseburger. I didn't think Dairy Queen made good cheeseburgers but man this one was great. The only thing that was weird was the steamed bun. I thought about straightening that guy out, but this wasn't for advertising so I left the wrinkles. It's actually a little subdued here. Click on the image for a larger view.

Chocolate Dip Cone SOLD (Click here to view eBay results)

Ever since I did the vanilla ice ream cone a few months ago, I decided that someday I would try a chocolate dip cone. We did stop in a Dairy Queen one night a while back, but the worker there must have been a trainee because it was the ugliest version of a dip cone I had ever seen. So ugly I almost didn't gobble it down. This one was actually a small. Everything today is supersized. I was hoping to paint one with just one major bulge in the middle. I was hoping for the classic version. Click on the inage for a larger view.

Yellowstone Pond SOLD (Click here to view eBay results)

Here's a scene of one of Yellowstones many deep dark forrest ponds. These are all as clean and clear as anything I have ever seen, except for the leaves that collect in the areas of no current. There were alot of trees that had burned and small trees that were taking their place. Yellowstone went thru a major series of forrest fires five years ago, and it will be quite a while before the effects disappear

Half a Pepper AVAILABLE

Here's a painting I did back in May. It may have been either the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd small oil that I tried to practice on when I started this daily painting project for eBay. I also did a sugar bowl that I might ressurect some day, and a cut yellow onion, that I think I will just let collect dust in my permenant reject pile. Click on the image for a larger view.

Indian Corn SOLD (Click here to see results on eBay)

Here's a painting of some Indian Corn. I thought I might continue with some seasonal subject matter.I wanted to stay away from any kind of rendering exercise here, especially with all those kernals, so I kept it kind of indicated. Click on the image for a larger view.