paintings and drawings

Below a sketch of Mom

Below Samuel --

Bloow -- singing field worker 48 inch oil

below Spirit dance -- oil 48 inch

below 60 inch oil from a photo I made

below a characoal and pastel  selfe

48 inch

bob cat of Templeton Ca.

I met this man in New Mexico  and painted 

for  My RV decor

below -- 48 inch pastel

Oil Paintings

Oil Paintings all four below 

This painting is father and son on Christmas day at Atascadero Lake 

Dad was untangling  his son's line .

 Old Barn on Vineyard Drive in Templeton

This barn fell down many years ago .

Oregon Lite House

Indian Waitress 

Pueblo Dwelling 

Glamour

Glamour

As an artist and photographer , I have always appreciated nature's gift of glamour in the human form .

Today I will post a few photographic images i enjoyed making

 .

As time permits I will gather more from my files and post them soon .

Sierra Mountains

Oil paintings 

Both of the below paintings were done from photos I took 

while backpacking the Sierras in California . The top 

Painting is Banner Peak 

The second painting is The Painted Lady in Kings Canyon .

Western Images

Sunsets # 1

Sunsets have always fascinated me , thus I 

have a large collection  of photos and paintings .

I will label pm posts of sunsets numerically .

Enjoy sunset #1

above photo shot from cerro alto

above shot from Arizona desert

above shot in Morro Bay Ca

above shot in Cambria Ca.

above -- Morro Bay

above Morro Bay

above Cayucos Ca

above in Cambria Ca.

Oil Painting Runner

Luis 

Below --- two paintings of my sun

Luis .

The third image is a photo of him

I made for a Montrail shoe ad .

Luis is a veteran  ultra marathon trail runner.

He is also featured in a best selling book

Born To Run .

The above painting is of Luis running in the 

Bad Water race .

This race took place in July !

The course is bad water Death Valley to the summit of Mt . Whitney.

146 mile race

mix of pretty photos

mixture of pretty images 

As a hiking photographer who also paints I see beauty daily .
Over the next few months I will post many of the images I have collected
and hopefully you will enjoy !

Above ---- Zion  Utah

above --- a rose in our garden

above --- MorroBay

Above -- aunset in Morro Bay Ca