Category: Paintings

Log Cabin Church is my personal favorite work. I painted this for my godparents. They were members here. My godmother always said this was my masterpiece. I discovered this beautiful church in 1973. I saw the buildings as reflecting the two testaments of the Christian Bible. I took artistic license and replaced the road in… Continue reading Log Cabin Church

Comprehension of eternity is fully one giant leap beyond the pale. We don’t know the exact birthday, but we celebrate Jesus’s Birth on December 25. Such a humble beginning. And what a strong mother Mary must have been to travel over one hundred miles in those days from Nazareth to Bethlehem at nine months pregnant! Portal is a study… Continue reading Portal

Dalmatians I’m unsure what year I did this piece but it was during my commercial art career. I painted it for my sweet sister-in-law, Mary and her Dalmatian buddy, ‘Dottie’. I worked from a print of a scene from Disney’s 1961 release, 101 Dalmatians. I used the same techniques employed by the Disney artists to render… Continue reading 101

This was my first work in this medium (animation cel). I had mistakenly painted George’s pants yellow before painting the Yellow Submarine so I opted to paint the submarine tail red instead of starting over… illustrative proof that two wrongs don’t make a right! 1975 – Acrylic and ink on acetate

Pictured first, below is the second step in producing an animation cel. In this case, I traced a print of Glen Keane’s rendering. Usually my first step is a pencil drawing on paper then trace my drawing using a rapidigraph pen or ink brush on the acetate as shown above. The $1.00 cotton garden glove with thumb… Continue reading Princess Ariel