This diptych mural measures 8' x 21.5'. Installed at the Doubletree Hotel by Hilton in Greeley, Colorado, it adorns the back wall in the elevator lobby on the third floor. The original medium is photography.
A mural view with sofa and telephone table for scale.
The massive Western-themed mural (at a Western-themed hotel) is impactful as the elevator doors open on the 3rd floor.
A large-scale print of "She Awakens" is installed at an exclusive, undisclosed Chicago boutique hotel. This image is the centerpiece around which the rest of the collection is based. This is a series of photographs.
"Fleurs Provocateurs" is a series of playfully dramatic images of annual flowers throughout the lifecycle of a summer season.
Displayed as a collection, the energy in these very lively depictions is an interplay.
Waxing and waning, blooming and wilting.
This is a work in progress for the A. R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, Colorado. Comprised of three 3' x 3' canvases, totaling a 9' horizontal line, it is meant to hang with a small space between panels, accentuating that it "spills" over three canvases. I begin all oil paintings with a charcoal drawing. This is a really complex start to one of a horse rolling in "Ecstacy Under Colorado Sky." (title)
The canvases are first worked into a texture using Venetian plaster and some tools to create an interesting substrate. In this piece, I added stars in the night sky and some ground scratches, circles. Plus, I do my best to leave as much of the original charcoal drawing as I can through thin layers of oil paint. And the texture plays with the paint too.
More stages of thin layers and then heavier, painterly daubs of white highlights for a stylized moonlit subject. This layering exploration is time consuming and not always a straight line to the finish. Hence, still an ongoing work in progress.