Oil Painting
8 x 10 inches
A highway scene. Sometimes I end my painting day by dashing off a very quick painting, as freely as possible. With these paintings I am really not looking for perfection, rather freshness and the fun of painting. Sometimes I like the resulting painting.

Oil Painting
18 x 14 inches
I call this painting "A Contemplation of the Infinite". It is a scene I found while driving across west Texas.

Oil Painting

16 x 12 inches

a view of St. Elmo, Colorado, an old town in the mountains.

Oil Painting
14 x 11 inches
a corner flower market in New York City. As is often the case with urban scenes, there was more information than needed or wanted in this one. In fact I thought I was done with this painting and then turned around and looked at it again and realized that I had included a lot of things like hanging traffic signals etc near the top of the painting. These things were in the actual scene, but did nothing but detract from the painting and guide the eye away from the more interesting parts. So I painted them out and was much happier with the painting.

Oil Painting
18 x 14 inches
A quiet street (unpaved) in Taos, New Mexico, very early in the morning.

Oil Painting
20 x 16 inches
A scene in New York City, near the S.E. corner of Central Park.

Oil Painting
9 x 12 inches
a scene at Como, Colorado. I wanted to be out plein-air painting this week, but it was too cold and snowy, so yesterday I painted a scene I'd like to have painted on site, and tried to paint it more in the plein-air style.