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.