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