Lake Fork Afternoon

36"x36", Acrylic/Canvas

A view of Carson Peak, near Lake City. This is on the way to Cataract Gulch, home of the craftiest, gorp-stealing marmots I've ever encountered. My buddy swears he saw the devil on a ridge up there, but I think it was just a goat.

SOLD

to a collector in St. Louis, MO

Palouse Wheat

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

SOLD

Field Writing

8"x10", Acrylic/Canvas

The blue and orange of a Palouse afternoon. The wheat seems like it's lit from within when it is even slightly backlit...I think Van Gogh was on to something. This is a commissioned piece to mark this combine's last run.

SOLD

Machinery

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

My paintings always seem to be about the landscape, regardless of the subject matter.

SOLD

to a collector in Moscow, ID

Gothic Valley Summer

12"x16", Acrylic/Canvas

This is a strange canvas size...too big to be little, but too small to be large. I usually jump from 5x7 straight to 24x36+, and this was a little out of my comfort zone (which was never very comfortable to start with). At any rate, this is the Gothic Valley above Crested Butte, looking into the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area. You can see peaks shift towards the ruddy color that the Maroon Bells are so well known for.

SOLD

to a collector in Moscow, ID

Slate River Bend

20"x24", Acrylic/Canvas

SOLD

to a collector in Fayetteville, AR

Mill Creek Melting

24"x36", Acrylic/Canvas

Looking towards West Elk Peak and Storm Pass.

Sun on the Taylor

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The Taylor River, perhaps the world's best cataract factory.

SOLD

to a collector in Denver, CO

October Sky

7"x5", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The view downvalley from the flanks of Carbon Peak

SOLD

to a collector in Lubbock, TX

Grove Patterns

7"x5", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Sometimes the old, chewed up snow is more interesting than the fresh stuff, as it twists and contorts the shadows and highlights.

SOLD

to a collector in Long Beach, CA

Aspens Again

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Maybe tomorrow I'll mix it up and paint a birch tree.

SOLD

to a collector in Hanover, NH

Forest Floor

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The seasons overlap in the West Elks. I have painted this tree from every possible angle, I think. Maybe I need to climb it and paint from its canopy.

SOLD

to a collector in Oro Valley, AZ

Blue Sky and Shadows

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas panel

I know backlight and aspen shadows are a bit of a crutch for me, but crutches aren't always bad... especially when they are as cool as backlit aspen groves. This is Mill Creek again (surprise!)

SOLD

to a collector in Hanover, NH

Distance

7"x5", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

This is probably the nine hundredth painting I have done of the Mill Creek valley, and I'm still not tired of it. There are lots of places to sit and hide up there in that lavender paint.

SOLD

to a collector in Dyer, IN

Storm Over Red Lady

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Winter on Mt. Emmons. She has alot of molybdenum in her belly, fueling a debate between mining and environmental concerns that has captivated Crested Butte for 30 years. John Denver recorded a song about it..."The Mountain Song". It was written by a CB local, Tracey Wickland. You can read an article from the CB Weekly here.

SOLD

to a collector in Middleton, MA

Dusk

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

SOLD

Mill Creek Sketch

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Mill Creek's willows cascading out of the valley. My favorite place in the world. Happy new year!

SOLD

to a collector in Oro Valley, AZ

Ohio Creek Evening

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

SOLD

Palouse Evening #2

6"x6", Acrylic/Board

Long shadows and apricot skies near Moscow.

SOLD

to a collector in Woodland Hills, CA

Cold Light

36"x24", Acrylic/Canvas

Afternoon light at two tens below zero, somewhere in the West Elks. I liked how the two little aspens seemed to be playing in their little sliver of sunlight before the shadows of the old spruce-fir forest put them to bed for the night. I really need to take the time to come up with better titles. Happy Tofurkey Day.

SOLD

to a collector in Salt Lake City, UT

Fields

6"x6", Acrylic/Board

Waves of earth in the Palouse.

SOLD

to a collector in Bellevue, WA

Long Shadows

5"x7", Acrylic/Board

Winter light in the Ruby Range.

SOLD

to a collector in Carbondale, CO

Ohio Creek Valley

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

SOLD

to a collector in Moscow, ID

Catwalk Shadows

6"x6", Acrylic/Board

I think I've realized why I'm so drawn to these silos...they bend and reflect light just like giant aspen trunks. They have the same finish as aspen bark, a powdery matte with just enough of a satin tinge to reflect their surroundings, and the same linen coloring, like canvases waiting for the day to paint them. Cool, eh? Well, I think so.

SOLD

to a collector in Moscow, ID

Silos at Sunset

5"x7", Acrylic/Board

These guys are some of the tallest structures in Moscow, and they make a great canvas for sunset's light and shadows.

SOLD

to a collector in Moscow, ID

Fenceline Sunset

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

SOLD

to a collector in Long Beach, CA

Hanging in there.........

We're about to ship this wonderful example of modern technology off to places unknown so that people or machines unnamed can perform some witchcrafty transplants or transfusions on its vital hardware organs. We should be up and running with our fancy new desktop soon, at which time I'll be able to upload, provided i can figure out how even modern-er technology works.
Cheers.
nodp

Canopy Shadows

36"x48", Acrylic/Canvas

SOLD

to a collector in Vail, CO

#@*! computer!

This is our shepherd, Zoe. She's very sad because our computer has decided to stop recognizing any of its USB ports, preventing me from uploading any new work. We'll try to consult with someone smarter than us and get things working again. Thanks for checking in.
NODP

4th St. Fire Escape

7"x5", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

This might actually be 5th st.... Anyway, it's the street the Moscow police station is on.

DONATED

to LaFortune Silent Auction

in Moscow, ID

Shipping Containers

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas

Plywood containers at the old silos.

SOLD

to a collector in Skillman, NJ

Palouse Moon

7"x5", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Late summer moon over the wheat fields outside of Moscow, ID.

SOLD

to a collector in Boise, ID

Sixth and Jackson (dusk), 6x8, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The Jackson Street silos again, just off of Main in Moscow. This is the view from Hawg's Grill. I've never eaten there, but Hawg was nice enough to help me push our old VW when it died right in front of his place. This is one of my favorites.

SOLD

to a collector in Moscow, ID

Sunshine on Sunshine Peak, 8x10, Acrylic/Canvas

Sunshine peak from Cataract Gulch.

SOLD

Yosemite Evening, 9x12, Acrylic/Canvas

SOLD

The First Few Flakes, 6x8, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

I've been chased down this valley by more rain, hail, and snow storms than I care to count. I remember snow-shoeing up here on an absolutely bluebird day a few winters ago, when the typical afternoon puffers combined into a boiling wall of cloud over West Elk Peak. I bounced back down-valley to the trailhead, feeling chased the whole way. On the short drive back to Ohio Creek, the shadow from the front literally passed me. I was driving about forty miles an hour, and it swallowed me. I watched it move down my hood and speed up the road to the west. In my rearview mirror there was nothing but a swirling vortex of white and gray...no mountains, no sky, no road. Not only did the thing pass me, but it managed to drop about two inches of snow in the five minutes it took me to get back to pavement. That weather was possessed. And it was wonderful.

SOLD

to a collector in Woodland Hills, CA