Recent Works

Mount Diablo -From Lafayette

Colored pencil, 17"x27" - $6000, Sold

 A stylized version of how Mt. Diablo might have looked 120 years ago, Walnut Creek removed and a family farm added in it's place.

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Joops Grotto

Colored pencil, 12"x15" -$1,200

 

A walk at Little Yosemite with my best friend, Joe, or Joop, in Dutch, produced this exquisite, little scene.

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Oak Tree w/floating rock

Graphite pencil, 12"x15" -$900, Sold

 

Oak trees are my favorite trees. I do many graphite drawings of them, and I love the idea of the floating rock, something solid and heavy actually becoming bouyant.

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Emily's Grotto

Colored pencil, 8"x10" - $1000, Sold

 

This is the place that my wife and I first took my daughter for a trip out into the country, Little Yosemite, and she enjoyed splashing in the water.

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Tracy Field Scene

Colored pencil, 10"x14" approx. -$900, Sold

 

 Field scene in Tracy, California, taken at light-speed from a moving car.

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Country Guitarist

Colored pencil and acrylic, 8"x10" approx. -$950

 I love the idea of musicians playing in nature and so created this entire image, just to put a guitarist next to a tree.  I like to think the guitarist is me.

 

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Summer Root and Post

 Color pencil, 8"x10" -$950

 A eucalyptus root at the old Meadow Lark Dairy, in Pleasanton, CA. Gone, but not forgotten. 

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Vasco Cuts

Color pencil, 8"x10" - $900, Sold

 I love to draw arroyos with just enough water in them to reflect the bottom as well as the sky.

 

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Fruitless Mulberry

Color pencil and acrylic, 12"x24" - $1800, Sold

 

A backyard scene, slightly tweaked to add just a tad of surrealism. 

 

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 Magic Gate

 Color pencil, 8"x10" -$1,200, Sold

 Perhaps the title should have been 'disappearing gate' since this gate has now disappeared and there's a modernized, steel gate in it's place.

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Thunder Valley

 Color pencil and acrylic, 8"x10" -$1,100 Sold

A mythical image exists only in my mind.

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Pleasanton Oak pt.1

 Color pencil and acrylic, 8"x10" -$900 Sold

For some reason I love this particular tree and have done four or five images of it.

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Redroof Farm

 Color pencil and acrylic, 12"x14" -$1,800 Sold

This is a working farm in Napa, California, however the tractor is from Livermore, California. 

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Blackbird Oak

 Graphite, 12"x18" -$700 Sold

I welcome your feedback on any of my work and would also invite any and all to contact me personally if you would like to visit my studio, I love the interaction of artist and art lover.