Using a photo my wife took one night after coming home from my typical northwood's outdoor fun time, I experimented with a method of Sargent mixing a batch of midvalue flesh tone and painting the full block-in of the face, then painting lighter and d...

This small oil study of my grand daughter, Beau...represents a method familiar to Manet, Cassatt, and John Singer Sargent which calls upon scraping back sessions painting the likeness to leave a film residue or "ghost" as it was called, methodically ...

My very good friend, Mike from as far back as my youth, has a couple braces of bluebill divers wingin\' by, but something is decoying. What could it be' Certainly has Mike\'s attention. The setting is the large bay of Green Bay, tempermental and...

This is a closeup companion image to my painting of my Son Jason in Ireland. I share this so you can see the fun I had using unique colors like reds and greens to treat the face like a landscape in and of itself. The distribution and placement of s...

Oil portrait painting on board. From my son's recent trip to Ireland, and loved this pose and background

This was an entree a number years back that I did for the Wisconsin Waterfowl Stamp Contest. As it would prove, our state was not ready yet for a dog dominant theme...but, it was still fun to paint. I'll be selecting the option to print feature s...

These are our two retrievers, our children at home and in home since our empty nest stage of life. Great dogs...fun personalities. One is a curly hair golden retriever, rare by today's standards...but every so often the gene comes thru in the litte...

Painted this tonight in the veterans park of a nearby small town. Set up with my portable pochade paint box and tripod. Much fun playing with the light and color, and an irony to see such beauty in color and light with a subject that represents the...

Literally set my plein air pochade box and tripod up in the water a little downstream from this falls to get the view I wanted. Cold numbing water on bare legs...especially after about 1-1/2 hours of paint time. Unless I am painting or experiment...

This is a studio work based on studies done along the shorelines of upper Michigan's National Shoreline, the Pictured Rocks. In the distant view you see the beginning of the well known sand dunes. A study of color and light...

Hiked about a mile back in some logging roads on both a brisk yet promising day that spring finally has arrived. The last bit of stubborn remnant snow created a pleasing contrast of values and color, and I knew straight away I had to set up my gear ...

Spring in northern Wisconsin is always a celebration outdoors. The long winters finally over, the snows melting and creating much energy in area rivers, streams and lakes...swelling with the excess waters. Here...a black bear awakened from its wi...

Set up my paint gear on an intimidating edge looking over this impressive gorge of a river that divides upper Michigan from northern Wisconsin. I was greatly entertained by the strong cool shadow the mass of rock and trees cast down onto its shore...

Set up on this location to study the cloud formations and light of the descending sun over a local lake here in northern Wisconsin. Always fun trying to paint clouds moving across the sky...and light dancing on the distant landscape

Set up on a gorgeous morning in Door County, east shores of the peninsula which is Lake Michigan. Facing the sun...as I often do, dramatic backlighting. Ducks and other off shore birds in the distance.