I know this picture is realy crappy- like all the little annoying white dots all over the painting- but this is all I have right now. I'll probably have Sariah post a better picture of this later, once I'm gone. Anyway, this painting is called "Lucky", which is the name of the Rooster. This was painted for the same person who commissioned me to paint the apricot painting. This is also the last one I will do until I get back from my mission, so I hope you all enjoy and I'll see you all back on my blog in two years!
(Prints of this will be available shortly)

This painting, "Dapple Gray", was painted for many people actually. My Mom, my sister, my friend and who knows who else I'll run into that would like to buy a small print of a horse painting!

This piece, "Glory of Edelweiss", was painted for my Grandma for her birthday (and Mother's Day and Christmas). Because the picture's contents were so simple and forgiving, it was actually a very fast painting for me. I completed it in about two days.

After having picked more than 1,400 pounds of Apricots at our good friends' house, we looked upon the fruits of our labors and immediately Janie Hawley spotted these sun kissed apricots in this bowl of hers. She exclaimed at the beauty of these particular apricots and then declared "that would make a great painting!" She turned to me and asked, "If I had you take this home, could you paint this?"
A little over a week later I went up to their house again with this finished painting and named it most appropriately, "Memories of the Harvest".

As a gift for my Great Grandmother, I painted this picture of a deer from her homeland in Austria. This type of deer is my Great Grandmother's most favorite animal. This painting was fairly simple and enjoyable to work on.

This painting is Ammon's late, late, birthday present. It is entitled "Get Thee Hence" and is a symbolic painting (for those of you who would not have guessed). This painting portrays Michael, the Archangel, having triumphed over and casting Satan, the Great Red Dragon, out of Heaven (See Revelation 12: 3, 7 and 9). I had Ammon pose with a robe and our real samurai sword for this project. I then simply 'tweaked' him on Adobe Photoshop to look like he was a glowing angel. Of course, the Dragon was much harder because there were no dragons here to pose for me! ;D

Here is the latest. This is a 9"x 12" painting I did for my brother Isaiah for his birthday. One day I asked him, "If I could paint you a small picture for your birthday, what would you want it to be?" He told me that he would love a painting of a green gecko. So we found his favorite "green gecko" picture and I painted it for him.

This is the latest of my finished commissioned paintings. I haven't added my signature just yet, but I decided to take a picture and post it anyway.

This painting was for the same person who commissioned me to paint the Hallstatt painting. This was painted from a picture of the Mirabelle Palace in Salzburg, Austria. Shown in the picture is a very small portion of the palace along with the fountain, gardens and the city and fortress in the background. At the moment I don't recall the name of the fortress, but I had toured the inside of it while I was in Austria. This fortress also happens to be the same one as the one filmed on The Sound of Music (or so they tell me- I haven't seen that movie in years).

I will soon have copies of this painting available.

This is the painting that you've all been waiting for. This is a painting of a Malachite Butterfly. Three people have already insisted that I was lying when I told them that I painted this. Yeah, yeah, I know, I am just terrible, but this painting was painted from the best photograph I have used yet. It's like Del Parson told me several times over, "If you have a bad picture, you'll get a bad painting," Not that any of the past photos I've painted from were bad. They just weren't the best. So, in that sense, this painting has done me great justice.
Also, one reason why people didn't think I painted this was because I scanned it before I signed it.
This painting is available in size 14" x 18" (full size) for $60.00 and size 11" x 14" for $40.00 (Customized sizes, smaller and larger are available. Prices for such will be calculated upon specific requests).

Again, this is not the picture I was talking about earlier, but it is a recent one. In fact I did it yesterday. This is my Dad's birthday present for today. This is a 5'' x 8'' painting of a Mule Deer, his favorite deer and also his favorite animal.

This is not the painting I was reffering to in a previous post (although this was a Christmas present as well- to my parents). Many of you have probably already seen the older version of this painting back on Sariah's or the family blog. That was back when it had an obnoxious crimson back ground. This is the real thing here (forgive the angle distortion from the camera- straight on pictures have the most glare).

This was not a commission, but a school project that turned into a gift. One day I just decided to browse my computer for a good picture to paint for my portrait class. I chose to do a small monochromatic painting of my cousin Blake and his bride Whitney at their wedding. At their wedding, they had a dance. For the first song, "You Raise me up" by Josh Groban, just the two of them danced. That was almost a sacred moment, just watching to two of them dance there- despite the fact that everybody had the cameras on them.
At first I just thought that it was just a good project to complete in a few hours. However, when I showed my Mom, she almost cried and told me that they would love it if I gave it to them. In short, I did end up giving it to the two of them when they came down for Thanksgiving.

Commission number three was of another Austrian mountain lake scene. However, this one was painted from an actual photograph. I had originally thought for sure that a relative of mine had taken the picture, but now I am not quite sure. This is a painting of a little Austrian town called Hallstatt. During my trip to Europe in 2003, we stopped and visited this very place. This previous experience made painting this project a little more fun, because I recognized certain land marks and had been to a couple of the buildings in this painting.

This is the second commissioned painting. This one is obviously of a different picture quality. The picture I was told to paint from was actually of another painting on a post card that was about 50 years old. this painting is called "The Alps" and is also available in prints.

Due to requests, I am posting my old paintings that I have completed. This was my very first commisioned painting. This was painted from a picture that was taken by my uncle, Kris, while he was in Maui. Like all my other paintings thus far, I used oil on canvas for this project. This painting is available in full size (30''x 24'') and half size prints (22''x 16'') and several prints have been sold (including to myself!). I am actually quite fond of this scene and it is one of my most favorite paintings that I've done.

Here is the little easter egg! Actually, he's not too little, he's almost two feet long. The Fire Salamander is a salamander that has fire powers. There are two versions of it. The older version is impervious to the scorch of fire and can even extinguish it. The newer and more popular version has the ability to create or spread fire, much like that power possessed by the world famous bird, The Phoenix.

Here is Fenrir, the giant wolf. I've had many comments on how he doesn't look exactly like a wolf. But that's intended. He's not supposed to look exactly like a wolf. This is a wolf that is the size of a bear and has a far more muscular build than a regular wolf. The build of any normal wolf would not fit the description of a beast who was capable of breaking any and all chains that it was bound with by the gods in the Norse mythology stories. Therefore, I did much hulking up and adding onto the muscle structure of this beast. I have also been told that the eyes are too small. I defy any such statement and challenge any observer to compare the eye size difference in a large animal (such as an elephant) with that of a smaller one (such as a chihuahua). In short, larger animals have smaller eyes and that is the reason Fenrir's are smaller.

Here is a close up of the dragon's profile

This is the Dragon painting. It took me four months to complete, from the time that I first sketched out some rough little drawings at my dentist's office, to the time that I signed my signature today. In fact, I started it September 21st and signed it today, January 21st so it took exactly four months.
In this scene a large copper and cobalt dragon has landed after an early morning flight. Upon discovering the giant wolf, it raising his wings as an instinct, attempting to make itself appear larger. It is not intimidated by the wolf, but rather is only slightly startled as it appears from amidst the tall grass. At the same time the unsuspecting giant wolf, Fenrir (a giant wolf from Norse mythology, also known as the Fenris Wolf), has climbed atop his own rock and stares at the arial visitor. This beast is not intimidated by the pomp of the dragon but remains motionless.
Also present in the picture is a Fire Salamander (a mythical creature from several parts of Europe). This creature is merely an 'easter egg' in the painting that one finds only upon closer inspection.

This was me about three weeks ago. My hair is just over six inches long- longer than it's ever been in my entire life.