I’m sure this painting will go through tremendous change before I finish. It’s my first oil painting in almost two years. These are my first two passes.  

This is my first attempt at drawing a human portrait with markers. My last two attempts with markers were portraits of dogs, and though I think they could be better, they came across convincingly. What’s more important is that the client was very happy. This portrait was proving to be a little too ambitious for […]

This is Ava, and her life was a beautiful story. I’ll share it briefly. Ava was adopted by a kind man from a Bay Area shelter at 7 months old. She had been turned in after having been found crippled and sick from being kept in very tight confinement from young puppyhood. She had never […]

This is Huck. I love this dog. I only had a day to finish, and like always I tend to use materials new to me. Self-sabotage. 😂 I used artists markers  on unfamiliar paper I found in my studio. I think the paper is for acrylic paintings. The marker did not soak in, but layering […]

This is my latest Spirit Animal. What makes this one different is that I have been terrified of alligators all my life. They are horribly scary to me. Some people are afraid of bugs, or dogs, even birds, but I think there is nothing on Earth as scary as an alligator. I’ve even dreamed of […]

This is my first attempt to draw on black paper. It is really hard for me. I can’t just look and draw what I see. My head doesn’t want to decipher the background as anything but dark, so finding the boundaries of dark and light in the image keeps jumping back and forth in my […]

The following two paintings have been chosen to be shown at the Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery and Radius Gallery in Santa Cruz (respectively) in April for the International Art Exchange exhibition, “Shared Seas.” Art students and faculty from two coastal towns once booming with their fishing industries (Monterey , CA and Olafsfjodur, Iceland) joined […]

  This little frog was struggling to come out. At least I was really struggling to bring him out. I wish he could join someone’s collection…

I hadn’t  done any artwork in months. This was a commission I began for a family friend right after I got let go at the job I was completely unqualified for. It still feels scary to draw again. It took me five weeks to finish.  I think it turned out pretty good, but I can […]