Stand of Birch Trees

Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"    I was fascinated with the diagonals created by the  birch trees and the play of sunlight and shadows across the snow. It was a bitterly cold morning, about -17 degrees.  

Winter Woods

Oil on canvas - 9" x 12"     This small oil was completed in 2008  as a demonstration piece for one of my students.  A larger oil, 24"x 36" was completed later that year.   A celebration of the  beauty of a "classic" winter that has embraced us for the past 2 months.

Vineyard, Old Mission Peninsula

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Window to Heaven-1

Rocky Beach - 1

Oil on canvas, 5" x 7" (Sold)   This small oil study was the 1st in an ongoing series of oils of  Lake Michigan's rocky shoreline, completed in 2008.   The painting is now leaving my studio and going to its new home in Santiago, Chile!

ArtPrize 2013: September 18 - October 6

Crystal River Wetlands - 2 in progress

Oil on canvas, 24" x 36"   This is the 2nd oil in a series of oils focusing on the Crystal River in Leelanau County. I have decided to keep this piece as soft as possible and quite understated. It is very close to completion... I have been looking at it for several months now, afraid to carry it too far to the point of being overworked.