My new book.

I recently published this little picture-book as Christmas gifts for my family. You can flip through a few pages by going to:
http://www.blurb.com/books/440771

Saddle on a Chair

Over the years, my paintings have been a conduit to life-experiences. This painting, done in the late 1970's, was sold to H. C. Lewis of Lubbock, thru a gallery in Santa Fe. That event began years of wonderful, intense, and even tragic, relationships with the lives of many out in the ranch country on the great plains of Texas. Maybe I'll put that in a book someday. (About the painting): approx 16"x20", acrylic on stretched canvas. The model was a warm-up saddle in a riding stable at Stroud, Oklahoma. It is now in a private collection.

more paintings

Charlie Rich, shoeing an appaloosa near Capitan, New Mexico. This painting won a Gold Medal for Watercolor at the National Western Artists Exhibit. It was published on the cover of the American Farriers Journal.

more paintings

Sid's Soles - Watercolor. Somewhere in Southern New Mexico.
The Workout - watercolor - subject at Ruidoso Downs New Mexico.
Cow Talk - opaque waatercolor. approx 18" x 30". Depicting ranch life in Panhandle Plains of Texas.
Watercolor on smooth board. A study.

Watercolor on smooth paper. A study for larger painting.

memory doodle

I was digi-sketching using a wacom tablet and this turned into my old studio and house in New Mexico.

my half-pan palette

This is the Winsor & Newton half-pan travel kit which I used for the last painting post. At one time in my life, back in Little Rock, we had a loose knit group of outlaw artists who started the American Society of Half-Pan painters. We all scattered as usual, and now I think we should revive this bunch and go virtual.

Another found painting

I painted  this watercolor circa 1975 of a man from the Taos Pueblo. I recently received a nice note from the current owner in Louisiana, and it is great to know that the painting has a loving home.