Have a look around and be sure to check back from time to time to see how the paintings are progressing or see what else is on the drawing board. Let me know what you think, I enjoy hearing your questions, comments and critiques!

March 27th, 2008

More of the jungle painting. There is now a great hornbill sitting in one corner

and a peacock in another

March 5th, 2008

I am working on a painitng inspired by a my travels to India. Some detail is shown below. The final will include 8 or 9 different kinds of animals.

December11th, 2007

You can go to KSTP TV to see an interview in my studio with my Mom: TV Interview..

October16th, 2007

Thanks to all the friends and family that wished me well in the Federal Duck Stamp contest this year on Sanibel Island. Here is my winning entry! The pintail pair will be the Federal Duck Stamp for 2008-2009 season:

You can find more details about the contest on the official US Fish and Wildlife duck stamp website.

..and details about the Federal Duck Stamp print program too.

October 1 , 2007 The 2007 Federal Duck Stamp Contest is coming up. Final round is October 13th on Sanibel Island. It should be a fun event....especially if I do better than I did last year! This is my entry from last year's contest - it was 2nd place:

These Chickadees are the second in a series of garden songbirds taht is in progress:

April 13, 2007 Elk's progress...

See the final painting on the original art page.

March 1, 2007 A new elk painting in progress:

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I had to put it away for awhile, and in the meantime painted this little leopard painting:

(Update Oct 2007. After some thought I decided to take the cub out and paint a different background:

October, 2006. It is the season for conservation stamp contests. This year I came out on top in the Minnesota Pheasant Stamp contest:

....Close but no cigar in the Federal Duck Stamp contest. I came in second place. You can see my entry and the winner at the governments duck stamp website.

May, 2006. I don't think I'll ever get tired of painting tigers. They can have so many different attitudes, expressions and interesting postitions. Maybe the hardest thing about it is that you can only try to capture one facet of the animal in any given painting, so there is often a sense of incompleteness for me.

February, 2006.

A new moose painting:

December, 2005.

Inspired by the migration of the Sandhill Cranes. They have been doing this for 9 million years !

September, 2005. OK. It is a big duck sitting on the water. I thought for a classic duck like the Mallard, that I should do a classic duck stamp design. That's all there is to it! It will be the Minnesota Duck stamp for 2006.

June 24, 2005. Blue birds,,,

...pink flamingos .

February 11. The wolf painting is done. At 48" by 28" it is the largest painting I've done, and a pretty complicated one too. I'll have it at the "Drawn to Nature" exhibit in Minneapolis. April 1-3 2005. This is a benefit for the Bell Museum of Natural History, a wonderful musem on the campus of the University of Minnesota.

January 05. The wolves have been put aside for the moment, unfinished. I think I need to take a fresh look in a month or so. In the meantime, a much simpler thing:

October 10. Proceeding to figure out some things that were not too clear before.....

September 10. Wolves are appearing on the canvas. For some reason this is happening from the top of the canvas to the bottom.

April 21. Mallard painting "Heading South" is complete...also have a new, small eagle portrait:

March 8, Detail from new mallard painting ....almost completed:

(Dec. 11)

A companion piece for the Cardinal painting (Feb. 03) Goldfinches with apple blossoms. Both this and the cardinal image are available as giclee prints on canvas.

(Sept. 24)

Another bird painting. A medowlark that I saw while in Nebraska this spring. There is nothing complicated about it at all - he's "Just Singing":