Safari Club Painting – Sketch

This is the initial sketch for my "quick draw" painting for the Minnesota Safari Club auction this evening. :)  Read more »

Minnesota Safari Club International – State Convention

I am at the Minnesota Safari Club International State Convention, North of the Twin Cities.  Tonight was the opening VIP reception — tomorrow will be open to the public all day. :D  Thanks to everyone who dropped by our exhibit this evening! Tomorrow will be pretty busy for me :D […] Read more »

Miniature Art Society Exhibit in California

I just sent artwork off to California today for a miniature show.  The exhibit is just outside of Yosemite National Park in Mariposa, California – the Northern California Society of Arts in Miniature’s "Miniatures in Mariposa" at the Sierra Artists Gallery.  The show will be up from late of February […] Read more »

Miniature Owl Painting & African Conservation

This piece is one of my new miniature watercolor paintings – completed about a week and a half ago or so. It is 5×7 and of a great horned owl – titled “sentinel”. While painting this miniature, I noticed that haven’t painted too many owls in a while. I think […] Read more »

Red Fox Miniature Painting

This is a photo of the completed Red Fox kit painting that I have been working on... Read more »

Wolf Puppies & Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Interaction with the animals that I paint is so important in my research for new paintings. I just had the opportunity to help bottle feed a litter of wolf puppies that were only a few weeks old. Two bottles for a litter of about half a dozen hungry little wolves […] Read more »

Oops. Scratch that.

No matter how well things are planned out, something always seems to mess it up.  It never fails.  Murphy’s Law, I suppose.  But somehow, everything always turns out just fine, or even better than we had hoped for.  Odd, isn’t it?   :) This is a recent image of the fox […] Read more »