"Ranchos Plaza Lilacs" SOLD

I was on a mission this particular day to paint the Ranchos Church...but when I turned and looked behind me I couldn't resist the lilacs blooming outside of the Plaza Grill.

9" x 12"  original oil painting  $250.00

"Seco Church" SOLD

Have painted this old church many times before and many more times to come!  This piece found a new home right here in Taos during the Studio Tour...I also was commissioned to paint "La Copilla", another old church just south of here.

12" x 12"  original oil painting  $200.00

"View from John Dunn Bridge" SOLD

This painting was basically a "study" for another piece but found a new home regardless over the Labor Day weekend Studio Tour.

"Morning on the Rim" SOLD

I painted this painting from the visitor's center just across the gorge bridge..early morning.  There were a bunch of big horned sheep there as well checking me (and my painting friends) out.  Took photos of them and will some day do another painting and paint them in!

14" x 18"  original oil painting  $550.00

"Turquoise Trail Church" SOLD

I guess I have a thing for painting old churches around this area.  This painting found a loving home in Nashville, Tennessee recently.  A nice little memory of a trip to the southwest.

11" x 14"  original oil painting  $350.00

"Bent Street Winter" SOLD

I painted this from a photograph I took one crazy cold morning on my way to work at The Bent Street Deli..I kind of got a "warm feeling" from how the sun was heating up the adobe walls.

11" x 14" original oil painting  $350.00

"Embudo River Willows"

Another typical scene in the winter, especially when driving near a river...I have a lot of fun painting snow scenes but when you can add the "splash" of red willows?  Well, it's almost better than Christmas!

11" x 14"  original oil painting  $350.00

"Talpa's Passed"

In honor of the "Day of the "Dead".....  the graveyards here are always decorated and so colorful year round. 
12' x 12"  original oil painting  $200.00

"Winter Compliments" SOLD

The winter season here in New Mexico can be so colorful it almost seems fake.  Sure we get a few gray "blah" days but when the sun comes out and illuminates the snow, the willows and the junipers..it's a painter's dream!

14" x 18"  original oil painting  $350.00

"Las Tusas Sunset" (study) SOLD

The sunsets here in Taos are pretty spectacular...but I have to say they're extremely hard to paint because they change every single second - and then they're gone.  So this was my attempt to "catch" one before it slipped away.

7" x 9" original oil painting  $100.00

"Roxy's Beach"

Here is what is on my easel at the moment (top)..an example of working from an earlier "study"(bottom)
Roxy was my dog who sadly is no longer with me but this was her favorite place to swim (and mine) down in Pilar south of Taos.

9" x 12" (study on paper)  $150,00
11" x 14"  original oil painting  $250.00  (when finished) *will post again when done 

"Garden Gate"

This gate is part of an old hacienda compound south of Ranchos in Llano Quemado.  The place is terribly run down and the gardens WAY neglected, but this little gate still shines bright!

9" x 12"  original oil painting  $160.00

"Courtyard with Lilacs"

I guess because it's winter time and the weather can be a little unpleasant for painting outdoors I sometimes work from photographs or finish a piece that I started in the past.  Such is the case with this one.  This is a scene from behind the Blumenschein Museum's East Studio.

11" x 14"  original oil painting  $250.00