Paintings
Archival-quality giclée prints and plaque-mounted giclée prints are available for each painting below at the indicated prices. If the original painting is available, its price is also shown. The paintings are also accompanied by a hodgepodge of explanatory captions and creative writing that can veer without warning from serious to comically absurd.
Ghost Town - 14" x 11"
Original: $700
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $220
"There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation." - Logan Pearsall Smith
Happy 78th Birthday to my dear mother, Jeannie, who jokingly refers to herself as a corpse but is, nevertheless, always cheerful and giving. - July 17, 2024 (painting just completed)
Below is an earlier, rougher version of the Ghost Town tree that can also be ordered at 5" x 7".
Castle Spirits - 16" x 12"
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
Old spirits rest in the landscape as a young spirit bustles inside.
The thumbnail below is a ten-second window into the process used to paint this.
The Witch's Repose - 11" x 14"
Original: $700
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
A print of The Witch's Repose in an ornate frame:
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The Witch's Repose is a scene from the anti-story behind the next painting.
Mushroom Cottage - 26" x 11" *
Original: $890
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $300
Just your average single-family home with an anti-story behind it
Notice that this and the last painting break the rule of centering: Don’t put the focal point at the center of the composition. And in Mushroom Cottage, all the elements of the painting are pushed up into the foreground. Here, you’ll find many paintings in this style, called naïve art. Throughout its history, naïve art has been both enjoyed for its whimsicality and derided as childish or academically flawed. For this artist, each painting is an occasion to break from the demands of everyday analytical thinking and expand the imagination in a child-like way...with the hope that it evokes something similar in others.
Woodland Castle - 12" x 16"
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
Loosely based on Thomas Kinkade’s Guardian Castle but with a slumping foundation, this castle is dedicated to those who attempt to make a grand home in a precarious land. A girl prays in the near tower, but Woodland Castle is part of a teetering kingdom where many have long since disappeared into a conspiratorial cult and neither the increasingly tainted river nor the collapsing forest matter much to the rest. Yet even amid intensifying storms, the castle remains upright until such a time when encroaching winds prove too ruinous for this fool’s paradise.
And below, an earlier version of Woodland Castle appears in its larger context: painted on a wood door within the kindred Severson Bungalow on Vine Street in Denver, Colorado U.S.A.
Entourage - 20" x 16" *
Prints: $50 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
The mice know that whenever the cat gazes out from the doorstep of the Woodland Castle foyer, it will eventually become entranced, and then they can proceed with their antics at minimal risk of devourment. Today, they outfit the spellbound cat with a monocle, top hat, and bow tie stolen from the office of the castle inspector. Meanwhile, passersby witness the spectacle and a legend is born: one of a dapper, steely-eyed cat with an entourage who must certainly occupy a dignified role in Woodland Castle affairs.
And below is a framed print of Entourage underneath a table scavenged by my wife, M, and refinished by myself, C.
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Vine Street - 20" x 16"
Prints: $50 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
An absurdist take on this painting:
Also check out the Vine Street Multiverse
Big Bird in an Average World - 10" x 10" *
Original: $450
Prints: $30 / Plaque-mounted prints: $210
Real meets abstract
...staged with clippings from the backyard sage bush
Surfing Bird - 8" x 10"
Original: $550
Prints: $30/ Plaque-mounted prints: $200
For this bird, danger is the sport.
Lakeside Cabin - 14" x 11" *
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $220
Painted on an old cutting board, this is a version of Old House Reflection by Correa Art.
Olive's Tree - 11" x 21" *
Prints $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $300
Olive is a dog we adopted, and this is her welcome painting.
But, of course, the kite can show any dog's name.
Cat in the Moonlight - 10" x 8"
Prints: $30 / Plaque-mounted prints: $200
A version of the popular depiction
...with a window into earlier that day:
Cat in the Window - 22" x 17" *
Prints: $50 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
Hm, did they forget again?
This painting grew out of a spontaneous bright idea from my wife, Michele, who admirably cares for all animals, big and small.
Speaking of unfulfilled desire...
Desolation - 24" x 22" *
Prints: $60 / Plaque-mounted prints: $220
Disenchanted Forest - 14" x 11" *
Original: $600
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $220
Completed October 2023, this one can come with a Halloween tale.
The thumbnail below shows how this painting came together layer by layer.
Also, a special thanks to Twisted Imagination for beautifully draping my Disenchanted Forest in scarlet red curtains with skeletal stage hands...and adding a creepy bunny and background tree:
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Ladybug Tree - 11" x 22" *
Original: $700
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $300
Featuring one-stroke painted plants
and an easy tree of exposed wood panel with glazed-in shadows
Giardino Vine Street - 18" x 24"
Prints: $60 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
An open garden window into the sky
Eagle Cloud - 30" x 18" *
Original: $800
Prints: $60 / Plaque-mounted prints: $270
The original framed painting of this storied scene is part of a larger display as shown in the thumbnail below.
And for a more vibrant flower patch than in the thumbnail above...
Green Flowers - 6" x 6" *
Original: $270
Prints: $20 / Plaque-mounted prints: $200
Consider this small one as part of a wall display in combination with other
Green Flowers prints with custom effects:
Death Valley Nomad - 20" x 16"
Prints: $50 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
Deathly-Pale Snake Lord Seeks Honest Wife
This online dating profile portrait was commissioned by a river valley nomad I encountered on a trek across the Mojave Desert. Painted with a more muted color palette, it was an exercise in atmospheric perspective: The hazy-bordered background mountains share the light color of the sunset and far sky, while the snake lord, his feathered captain, and the rest of the foreground has darker contrasting colors and distinctly-painted edges.
The thumbnail below is a plaque-mounted print ornamented with antique store knick-knacks and photographed in lighting that created a sunset glow. This and the original were both photographed with distressed wood strips on the top and bottom to bring each to a standard size. The plaque mount is 24" x 18", and prints of it can also be ordered.
Earth Overlord - 14" x 11"
Original: $220
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
Some ideas for this one
Wagon Wheel Cabin - 14" x 11"
Original: $320
Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230
There was already enough character and form in this wood that it only needed accentuating with a thinly painted hillside of rocks and grass with a cabin on top.
The thumbnails below show the front and back sides of this two-inch-thick wood block.
Sailing - 6" x 6"
Original: $190
Prints: $20 / Plaque-mounted prints: $200
Birdland - 12" x 16"
Prints: $40/ Plaque-mounted prints: $230
What an Indignity
