Gallery Eighteen:

Gallery Eighteen: 2015

In 2015 I published my novel, "Belshangles," now available on Amazon and other book sellers. Below are two pages devoted it. Check them out. I will be adding material from time to time. Read the book. You'll like it.

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Also this year, on the painting front, I took first place in acrylics at the Death Valley 49ers Invitational Westrn Art Show with my painting "How Coyote Made himself Invisible".
One of my would-be promoters asked hopefully "Can you paint really BIG?" My acquisition of an intimidatingly large stack of 24 inch X 30 inch canvasses resulted in two really BIG paintings, "Red Rock" and "Dumont Stage", and a really SORE back, neck, and right arm, which have yet to recover. I think I am a miniaturist at heart.

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Coyote and Ravens in the Snow
acrylic on canvas board
12 inches X 18 inches
Llano
Los Angeles County, CA
2015

This picture was commissioned by email:
"We met you at the Spring Encampment at Goffs this last April. I have been wanting a painting of yours and thought I could ask you to paint this picture I took in the front of our property. Two of my favorites critters in one pic! It can't be to large as we have a small cabin… Thanks for looking… I hope you can paint it!! Here it is, the alpha coyote and ravens in the snow…"

Five Pullin'
acrylic on canvas
10 inches X 30 inches
Goffs, San Bernardino County, CA
2015

The obligatory Santa-Fe-passing-Goff's-Butte picture for the annual MDHCA silent auction.

Red Rock
acrylic on canvas board
24 inches X 30 inches
Clark County, Nevada
2015

Every time I drive Highway 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump, I pass the Keystone Thrust System and the Wilson Cliffs, striped with flame red sandstone, rearing up 3000 feet above the desert floor. Again, the light is always changing, the same mountains are never twice the same.

Dumont Stage
acrylic on canvas board
24 inches X 30 inches
Dumont Dunes
San Bernardino County, CA
2015

Paintings involving stagecoaches have always been prominent in the Death Valley Art Show, usually galloping hell-for-leather across boulder-strewn creek beds. Now, roads where stage coaches actually went were not super highways, but they were roads. Broken wheels and axles look bad on a stage driver's record. So I determined if I were to paint stagecoaches, it would be where stagecoaches might reasonably have gone.

How Coyote Made Himself Invisible
acrylic on canvas board
16 inches X 20 inches
Death Valley
Inyo County, CA
2015

I won a first place in acrylics at Death Valley with this painting, my second ever. Like the first, The Ram, in 2008, it was derived from a photograph taken by my friend, George Rodney. Thanks, George.

Light Beer and a Tattered Flag
acrylic on canvas board
8 inches X 10 inches
Star Point Trading Post
Imlay, Pershing County, Nevada
2015

We were in need of a camp site on the long, uninhabited stretches of Highway 80 in Northern Nevada, and stopped at the Star Point Trading Post. Their little RV park was full up with miners, so we had to drive on.