Temple of Poseidon

36" x 48", Acrylic on canvas $1,500

This is the fourth painting I've created in two weeks for a new Greek restaurant that is opening soon (mid-April) in my area..."Freskada Mediterranean Kusina", Exton, PA. This painting is also for sale...so if you are interested in purchasing it or a smaller print of it please contact me.

Church Road

12" x 24", oil on canvas

This sleepy Autumn morning scene is inspired by a photo I took from my car while driving near my house (on Church Road, Charlestown PA). There was something about the way the sun was lighting up the tree tops that caught my attention and made me pull over.

Greek Steps - final version

6' x 6' mural on canvas

Greek Steps

6" x 6" oil on masonite, NFS

This is a mini study i did yesterday morning in preparation for a large painting I'm planning on doing for a Greek restaurant. The finished painting will be 6' x 6' ! It will be a major focal point upon entering the restaurant and also an advrtisement for my future commissions (I will be able to hang a prominent plaque under the painting displaying my contact info). I'll post the finished painting when I'm done.

my latest pet portrait...

This pet portrait was just completed for a client. It measures 30" square and is based on several reference photos that were melded into one scene. The lighter colored dog is a yellow lab and the reddish colored one is a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Sadly, neither are with us anymore...thus the desire for the portrait. I hope I did them justice and am happy to contribute to honoring their memory...I'm convinced dogs are God's gift to us to remind us that we are loved unconditionally ;)

Valley Forge locals

8"x10", oil on canvas panel; $195 USD

Snapped a photo last winter in Valley Forge park after an 8" snowfall. The deer are extremely tame and used to people so you can get quite close before they start slowly moving away.

wave study

6"x8" oil on canvas panel. $125 USD

Violet Light

6"x8", oil on canvaspanel; $125 USD

Inspired by a photo I took just before sunrise at Cape Henlopen, Delaware.

public pool

11"x14" oil on canvas. $350 USD

Another image based on a reference photo from my weekend in Rehoboth, DE. It's minutes after the sun started to rise out of the misty horizon. An orangy pink light baths the beach and all its feathered custodians.

Italian Harbor commission

Just finished this very large (4' x 6') oil painting for a client. It is a photo-realistic copy of a photo they took while on vacation in Italy. It took me over a month to complete! I'm glad it's done and can't wait to see it hanging in their dining room. This was definitely one of the more challenging commissions I've ever taken on. It taught me a lot about water refections, as well as the virtue of having patience!

Italian Harbor

14"x20", oil on board

This is a small version of a very large commission piece I'm working on. The final version will be 4' tall and 6' wide! It is being created for a formal dining room and is based on a photo that my client took while on vacation in Italy. For more information on commissions please feel free to contact me via email (or check out my website: www.AMuralForAllSeasons.com )

Early Bird

6"x8", oil on canvas panel. $125 USD

I love the colors in the light reflecting off the water at the first light of the morning...lots of yellows and purples.

Breakfast on the Beach

6"x8", oil on canvas panel. $125 USD

Morning Rhythm

6"x8", oil on canvas panel. $125 USD

This is part of a series I'm doing based on photos I took while on vacation at the Delaware shore in September. I've always found the ocean to be a spiritual place and it seems to have a calming effect on me even while I'm painting it!

Delaware Daybreak

6"x8", oil on canvas panel. $95 USD.

Painted from a photo of the first sunrise I've seen in many years! Makes me wish I lived at the beach so I can make it a ritual ;)

Chianti Road

24"x48", oil on canvas, Private Collection (NFS)

This fantasy view of a vineyard-filled valley is a combination of Italy and California. I just finished, after almost a week of working on it for a few hours each day. It's gonna be a surprise gift for my parents...shhhhh. They remodeled their kitchen with a Tuscan feel. My father loves wine and always wanted to travel to Italy. I've never been to Italy but I've been to Napa Valley in California, so I created this view from my experience, plus a little imagination. If you enlarge this image you can see little houses on the distant hillsides. Those houses, as well as the estate house, are all Italian style houses with terra-cota roofs.

"You Talkin' To Me?"

6"x8"; oil on canvas panel; $125 USD

This is the first of a new series I'm starting based on photos I took from a recent weekend at the Delaware shore. There were so many different types and sizes of seagulls and they were so used to people you could practically walk right up to them and they would just pose for you! So I ended up with a lot of seagull photos...hence the new series ;)

Lotus

11" x 14" oil on canvas. $295 USD

Cathedral Rock

16"x20" oil on canvas; $650 USD

Hopping from rock to rock I made my way out to the center of the creek to capture this scene with my camera while on vacation last year in Sedona, AZ. This is Cathedral Rock...supposedly one of several "vortex" areas around Sedona. I have to admit the atmosphere is so peaceful here, although I didn't personally feel any tingling type of energy which many people claim to experience around this site. What a perfect place to hike and commune with nature!

July + August . . .

Wow, it's been two months since my last post! In that time my whole kitchen was torn out and remodeled. It's fantastic to have all new everything...it's like living in a new house. I'm just finishing up painting the entire downstairs (~ 800 sq ft) plus the ceiling.

Besides that I've been the featured artist for the month of August at a local framing gallery (see photos below)...

I also was working on restoring an old chair for a "CHAIR-ity" auction coming up in October...

Not Yet

16"x20", oil on canvas; $595 USD

I live in an area of increasing suburban sprawl, 20 miles outside of Philadelphia. The county I live in is about half developed and half open space, but it feels like the open space is losing the battle faster and faster each year. I was taking a drive one day on a country road in an under-developed area not too far from my house when I spotted this scene. I pulled over and snapped a quick reference photo that inspired this painting. I call this "Not Yet" because it has not yet been developed, but this is an example of a typical rural landscape in my area that seemingly overnight becomes transformed into a development of townhouses, retirement facilities or "McMansions". I'm actually grateful for this housing bubble burst because it has slowed the sprawl to a large degreee, at least for the time being. I just hope builders will use this oppotrunity to rethink the impact they have on the environment and realize that there is only a finite amount of stress that it can handle...impact on animals, ecosystems, water usage, cars on roads not built to handle the volume of drivers they now experience, air and noise pollution, and the impact on schools and teachers having to teach ever larger classrooms. I don't have the answer to suburban sprawl but I think we all need to slow down and talk about what we can all do to address it, now before it gets any further out of control.

Cathedral Rock - study

6"x8", oil on canvas panel. Study for larger version. $85 USD

This is a small study that I painted in preperation of a larger work. I used a refeence photo that i took last September while on vacation in Sedona, AZ. The peak in the background is called Cathedral Rock and is a quite magical place...in fact many consider this to be a "vortex energy" location. While I didn't exactly feel tangible energy i did feel a sense of peace and connection to the Earth which in itself is magical. I highly recommend a visit.

Arboretum

12"x16", oil on canvasboard. SOLD.
This painting is inspired by a photo I took at a local arboretum (Jenkin's Arboretum in Devon, PA) last summer. This was a little challenging because there is so much green I had to try to make subtle differences in temperature and value to add some variety to it.

Backlit

6"x8", oil on canvas panel. $125 USD

A Watchful Eye

24" x 30", oil on canvas. $1,150 USD.

After a snow storm, I took a drive to Valley Forge National Park (near my house) and saw these deer. They are so used to people that they let you get pretty close...though the doe was keeping a watchful eye while her fawn was eating.