City Creek

City Creek, oil on panel, 12 X 17
(downtown Salt Lake City)

I just finished this painting,  it was really fun to paint.  I am really grateful for the opportunity I had to paint it.  I would like to paint more city scenes now.  

The list is so long, and it is always getting longer.  

I love to paint.

Little Red Tulips, oil on panel, 5X7

I just found this little painting in my studio, and I have decided to paint that I am going to paint a series of little tulip paintings like this.  I am excited.

The only part I am not excited about is coming up with titles, I have painted so many tulip paintings, I am running out of ideas for names.

Red and Gold Tulips

This is a painting I recently finished, it was a commission, and I am so grateful for the opportunity I had to paint it. I still haven't come up with a title that I like.

There is a place I go in my sub-conscience when I paint tulips that is so peaceful. I am glad I got to go there, I needed it. Having a commission made it happen now. My client asked me to duplicate another painting that I had painted years ago, "The Jewels of Skagit Valley" which has been a favorite of mine (you can see it on the sidebar here), he asked if it would be the just the same, I said I hoped it would be much better, and I feel like it is. It is good to know that I can improve on something that already seemed so right.

I wish you could see the original, while this is a great representation, you can't see the way the leaves are made of shiny gold and the iridescent and metallic and even glittery colors in the tulips. I love it. It makes me happy to look at and to think about the process I experienced as I created it.

40 X 21, oil on panel