Wow it has been a long time since I have posted to my blog!  I don't usually make excuses but I must admit I have not been doing a lot o...

SOLD I just finished this piece from a photo by Helene Rush.  I love how the light bounced off his back and highlighted his face.  The ...

I was very happy to learn that I was juried into a Federation of Canadian artists show in Vancouver coming up in May - Crossing Boundries - ...

I feel like a kid in a candy store!  An order of art supplies just arrived and I got to play with a new medium - cold wax.  I absolutely lov...

It's been awhile since posting anything new but I have been working steadily for the past while trying new techniques and trying to esta...

I took some wonderful shots of arbutus trees while cruising the Gulf Islands, B.C. this year on holiday.  This one was a lot of fun to paint...

I haven't posted in awhile but I have been busy painting.  Here are a few of my most recent pieces all in oil and all featuring trees. ...

These two paintings are the result of using a large brush and some walnut oil to thin the paint and painting rather loosely and fast.  I thi...

I have been enjoying doing some work with the palette knife lately.  There is a freshness that I cannot seem to get with the brush and I rea...

I thought I would post some new work that I have done in oils.  You can also see all my recent work on Dailypaintworks.com as seen to the ri...

Both of these pieces are available in my Dailypaintworks gallery to the right.

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SOLD I haven't been posting lately but I have been painting.  The sunsets I saw while on vacation this summer really inspired...

I have been having some fun with abstraction lately.  I love layering different colors and values of colors on TerraSkin.  This paper takes ...

Some more fun with acrylics.                 SOLD

These two paintings were done mostly with a palette knife in acrylic.  I like using a palette knife with small paintings as it allows me to ...

I thought I would give acrylic a try again after some not so great starts recently.  After I got used to the faster drying time I was really...

I thought I might post the steps to arrive at a finished oil painting for those of you who may be interested. #1. The underpainting is usu...

This painting is based loosely on some photos of the Cowichan Estuary that I have plus a bit of imagination and the color study that I did p...

This is a color study in preparation for a larger painting I plan on doing soon.  It is always good to work out the colors and composition b...