Swallow-Tailed Hummingbird

Swallow-Tailed Hummingbird

5 x 7

$135 with double mat and frame

Signed giclee print $29.95

Reference photo thanks to Flávio Cruvinel Brandão. He has amazing photos you can see at Flavio's Flickr site.

Lilac-breasted Roller

Lilac-Breasted Roller
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Reference photo by Arno Meintjes. You can see his incredible photos at Arno & Louise. Thank you Arno! The Lilac-breated Roller lives in Africa and they really do have colors at least as brilliant as my painting!

Barred Owl

Barred Owl 8 x 10 Commission 2009

Limited edition signed giclee print: $65

Note cards available

This Barred Owl lives in Vermont.

Cat Portrait

Midget My First Cat Portrait

8 x 10

I finished this commission yesterday. It was a nice change from painting dogs. I took some video of the painting process. It will be my first watercolor demonstration video, once I succeed in editing it.

Watercolor Landscapes YouTube video

I just published my fifth YouTube artwork video. This one has watercolor landscapes of barns, flowers and other paintings with music by Mark Saunders of Mad Agnes. I want to put all my videos on the "Video Bar" but haven't figured out how to make it show my videos. To see the new video go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8YpE2qY-HE.

Cocker Spaniels

Jake and Lucy

14 x 11

2009

I finished this commission last week. Now I am starting my first cat portrait featuring a long haired beauty and a potted plant.

Neuschwanstein Castle

Neuschwanstein Castle

16 x 13

2009

$575 with mat and frame

I started this painting in June, 2008. I used a photocrom print from Commons Wikimedia, taken between 1890 and 1905. I found better photos but they were not available. I really wanted the view with the mountains and most of the photos show the other side of the castle, or were private or expensive. The castle is in Bavaria, Germany and was used as the model for the Disney castle. I was compelled to paint it as soon as I saw it. I finally finished it over the last week, in a different size and shape than originally started. I may do another one where I hope to capture better mountains and that real "fairy tale" look.