The Ann Arbor-based AAWA will hold its summer exhibit at the Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, from July 5th through July...

The latest landscape painting in my Pacific Northwest (PNW) series. This 12x16 pastel painting was inspired by a hike in the Hoh...

On the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, you can find Ruby Beach, situated on the Pacific Ocean. The curiosity of this location is the...

The Great Lakes Pastel Society will hold its Members Exhibit at the Carnegie Center for the Arts in Three Rivers, Michigan. The exhibit...

This is my second foray into creating a painting on the subject of searching for sea glass on Glass Beach on the Olympic Peninsula. It...

Behind Pittsfield Township Hall near Saline, MI., there are nature trails and a pond fed by Warner Creek. Cosmo (my dog) likes to sniff...

Glass Beach is on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. And there are plenty of rocks to stumble over as one searches for sea glass. ...

A quick impressionistic study completed before the rain and wind engulfed my plein air site! Marsh Meadow View Park, Pittsfield Township,...

I'm pleased to announce that the following two of my pastel paintings have been accepted into the Great Lakes Pastel Society's Members...

The joy of being an artist is not so much the completed product as it is the process of creating the art in the first place! For this...

I recently returned from a visit to the New York City area where Spring is about two weeks further along than polar Michigan. ...

Traveling through Olympic National Forest, I came upon this spot on Lake Quinault. Pastel painting, 9x12, done on Uart 320 grade paper....

The Hoh Rainforest is a temperate rainforest located in Olympic National Park. This painting is part of my PNW (Pacific Northwest) pastel...

Grand Teton Waters was inspired by a photo taken by my daughter Sara a few years ago as she hiked in the Grand Tetons. This painting was...

I've been experimenting lately with small format pastels. Creating a small painting can provide a good introduction to a larger version...

I have gathered a bunch of material from a trip to Washington state, which will form my new "PNW" series of paintings. Out family hiked...

I will be teaching the Landscape in Pastel class at the Clinton Art Center, starting Wednesday, March 13th! We are looking for two more...

Recently, I reached for my oil paints to embark on an experiment with a scene I had painted in the past. Hiking in the Great Smoky...

Hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains offers an abundance of beautiful mountain vistas and inviting, often turbulent waterscapes. "Early...

I was rather pleased with the bold color effects of "The Clearing," where I applied an acrylic under-painting of colors representing the...