"Mountain Goat", acrylic on canvas, 24" x 20"

"Mike and Linda's House", acrylic on canvas, 24" x 18"
Commission of a Fort Davis, Texas house.

Alpine Gallery Night / Artwalk 2009
Here's some of the new artwork I've created for this year's Artwalk. I'll be posting more of the paintings towards the end of next week. You can find more about the event at the official website.

The artwork will be on view at the Dumitrescu Gallery (click here for a map) starting at 10am, Friday, November 20th. Artwalk runs from 10am-10pm on November 20th-21st.

Prices can be downloaded from my website or by clicking this link.


"Elizabethan Chicken", acrylic on canvas


"Puddin'", acrylic on canvas, 27" x 27"


"George Floro's Billy Goat", acrylic on canvas, 27" x 27"


"Dana's Baby Goat", acrylic on canvas


"Chunky Donkey", 18" x 36", acrylic on canvas


"Penelope, all ears", acrylic on canvas, 18" x 24"


"Penelope, listening", acrylic on canvas, 27" x 27"


"Nibs", acrylic on canvas, 12" x 16"


"New Mexico Grain Mill", acrylic on canvas, 36" x 24"


"Morning Digger", acrylic on canvas, 27" x 21"


"Grasshopper Study #2", acrylic on canvas, 36" x 12"


"Grasshopper Study #1", acrylic on canvas, 36" x 12"

The Writer's Guide to Getting Published
Five of my illustrations have been published in a special version of The Writer's Magazine by Kalmbach Publications. Click here to visit the magazine's website.



The above illustration was a heavily modified version of Front Street Books here in Alpine. Frisky-Sweets very reluctantly posed for me on the white rug.

Below are some small spot illustrations to accompany four of the articles.

M.F.K. Fisher: Among the Pots and Pans now in paperback

The paperback of M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans has just been published and so I’d like to share with you some of the sketches that evolved into the final illustrations for the book.

At the beginning of the project Joan Reardon had sent me a master list of illustrations she wanted for the book, along with a large number of photographs of Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher. Using notes from Joan Reardon’s Poet of the Appetites and some photographic reference I began to build sketches in pencil in a sketchbook and on the backs of scraps of paper. Joan would review these, offer suggestions and color notes, and then I’d redo them until they were correct.

Some illustrations came together quickly and some required multiple interpretations until we were both happy and I could proceed with the final watercolor illustration. Regardless, it was a very enjoyable project to work on and I hope the book helps illuminate some of the homes MFK Fisher lived and worked in.

What follows are a small selection of the black and white sketches I created, along with some of the final color illustrations from the book.

First Kitchen on Rue Monge, Dijon, France



The Dear Old Lady on Oak Avenue


Le Tholonet Aix-en-Provence


Bareaces in Hemet, California


Le Paquis above Vevey, Switzerland



Last House



Le Tholonet Aix-en-Provence, France


Bareaces in Hemet, California

Two Cows

"Strolling Cow", acrylic on canvas, 48" x 24"


"Cow in Thought", acrylic on canvas

Ceninzo Journal issue #2
The second issue of the Cenizo journal just came out and below are color versions of the three illustrations I had published in it.

"Shafter Church #2", watercolor on paper, 17" x 14"


"Shafter Graves #2", watercolor on paper, 17" x 14"


"Shafter House and Mountain", watercolor on paper, 17" x 14"

Fiesta Del Sol
I'll be keeping the Dumitrescu Gallery opening longer next weekend as part of the Fiesta Del Sol celebrations. We'll be open Friday June 19th from 6-10pm and on Saturday June 20th between 10am-10pm.


"Pumpkin, the House Mover", acrylic on canvas


"White Farm House", acrylic on canvas


"A Day in the Life", acrylic on canvas