I've been looking for the right element/character to finish this painting for a long time. It appeared last Friday--a massive flock of Turkey Vultures over my house. I've seen them here before but got interested in learning more about them--quite interesting. The piece has a lot of connections with the environment and my early Neo Expressionist approach--college days. It's 40x60 on canvas and was made with both oil and acrylic

11x14 Gouache of Ashleigh flying her kite--from the same day seen in my earlier painting of me flying a kite at the cabin.

11x14 Gouache of Holly at Ocean Beach in San Francisco

Another 11x14 Gouache on hot press watercolor paper. Holly was standing in front of this floor to ceiling window and the lighting and framing was really interesting to me and I knew I'd have to eventually paint this.

This new gouache painting is from a day a couple of years ago flying kites with my daughter at our homestead cabin in North Joshua Tree.

I made a short video of this painting being made--check it out here

This gouache painting is from one of those perfect days in the fall when there's a Santa Ana condition making the ocean glassy and Catalina visible. This is right before sunset.

11x14 Gouache on hot press watercolor paper. A cloudy day in the Joshua Tree Conservation Area with Ashleigh descending from above.

11x14 Gouache on hot press watercolor paper. Ran across this guy about 2 miles up the trail in the Joshua Tree Conservation Area just having a rest on the rocks. 4-25

This is an 11x14 gouache on hot press watercolor paper. It's from a spring hike on the Nancy Karl trail in Joshua Tree-MDLT area. 3/22/25