Rocks and Water

Oil on Canvas.  28x40".

This is painting of an area on the East Fork of the Lewis River, near Battle Ground WA.  The area is below Moulton Falls.   Sold to the Battle Ground Community Library, November 2014!

Oil on Canvas, 25"x36". 

Finally wrapped up a new one.

Oil on Canvas, 24x36in - Sold

Lucia Falls is on the East Fork of the Lewis River, in Washington.  This is just above the falls, as it drops off to the upper right. 

Oil on Canvas, 15x30in  Sold

This is a painting of my son, Eli - playing in the river near our home.

This painting won 3rd Honorable Mention in the American Artists Magazine & Utrecht Art Supplies Annual Art Competition in 2010.  I was pretty excited about this - I found out there were over 5000 entries, and only 18 artists won awards.   Here's a link to the winners page.

Oil on Canvas  15x30"

A little departure here, and more related to some of my random sketchbook work.  Just having a bit of fun..  I had the pose of the figure in mind, and the long thin composition.  I wasn't really successful in taking it exactly where I wanted, but it's not too bad.  I realized about half-way through the painting that really my canvas was still too wide for the tall thin compostion in my head.  The addition of the tower of rocks on the left side was added in to help create the vertical feeling.

Oil on Canvas,  2.5' x 3'  Sold

I was playing around with a wide angle camera lens at the river one day, and took a shot with the beautiful morning light coming through.  In the painting I decided to push the colors in the rocks a little further, just to see how that felt.  This painting was sold through the Columbia River Gallery in Troutdale Oregon.

Oil on Canvas  2'x3'

This is probably my favorite of the series where I'm looking straight down into the riverbed, at least so far.  A real challenge to work at all the value ranges: above the water surface in the light, above the surface in shadow, and then below the surface both in light and then in shadow. Sold to the Battle Ground Community Library, November 2014.

Oil on Canvas, About 3'x4' in size.

This is a large painting, the first one I did looking straight down into the riverbed.  I loved this idea so much that I continued it on for a few other paintings. Sold to the Battle Ground Community Library, November 2014!

Oil on Canvas,  18x24in

This is the Lacamas Creek watershed in Camas WA.  I'm not entirely happy with it, but a lot of people do like it so I'll post here.   Honestly I struggled with the fast moving water here, and I think the details make the painting a little busy.

Oil on Canvas, 30x24in  Sold

This was one where I feel like I finally made some good strides with water and the many levels of ripples and action in the flows of the water.  The lighting is early morning, the dawn is just breaking.   Lot's of patience and care on this one..  you wouldn't know I painted this in our small kitchen - which also doubled as our dining room when I didn't have my easel set up.