President Eisenhower

I did not know that he was the president that started NASA and DARPA.  I had always thought Kennedy.

President Roosevelt (Teddy)

Love drawing these presidents,  this one before my time, but cool mustache.

President George W Bush

Chose a picture that reflected the stress and hard times of his time as president.

President Johnson LBJ

Enjoy this time period in American history!

Fred Smith founder of FedEx

Did portrait of the founder of FedEx where I have worked for 31 years.

President Reagan pencil portrait

Tried to find a pose that was not so common of him.

President Nixon pencil portrait

Captured Nixon before his Watergate scandal.  Seems much happier.

Bill Clinton pencil portrait

Continuing my presidential theme.

President Kennedy in profile

Another president.  Just on a roll.  I enjoy doing these quick pencil sketches.

Abraham Lincoln pencil portrait

With all the election madness I decided to do a portrait of a real president!

Cloudscape

Got back into painting with oil after self portrait.  This is a work in progress but it's pretty close now.

Self Portrait

Decided to try another self portrait in oil this time.   16x20 on canvas.  Used my facebook profile as reference pic!

Pencil portrait of President Reagan!  My favorite President.

Commission in Pencil

Commission portrait in time for Christmas!

JFK pencil

Used to love this era and all the excitement of the new space program and the new age.  Decided to do a pencil of Kennedy.

The Selfie

Decided to try a self portrait, first time in a long time.

Another layer on "Partly Cloudy with Chance of Showers"

Oil 16x20:  Original painting had some drip marks from some linseed oil I was using in medium and decided to paint over them and enhance the painting.  Added the rain under the cloud and some other thunderheads in the background.   Haven't painted anything in about 9 months.  Felt good to have paintbrush in hand again.  Someday!

Is There Anybody Out There?

I was browsing some pictures from the #Hubble and saw some interesting pictures that looked like they would be a challenge and fun to paint.  Makes me stand in awe of our God who is as endless as we consider the universe to be.   I read recently where the known universe is 94 billion light years across!   That is 94 billion times 6 trillion miles!   Incredible!

Oil on canvas 48x24

Day at the Beach

Painted over my last post of the "Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Showers" with this one.  Just never liked the way the clouds came out.   Oil on canvas 16x20.  This canvas now has three paintings on it,  first was a Grand Tetons type scene, then the clouds and now the beach!

Partly Cloudy with Chance of Showers

Snapped a picture of the sky yesterday and put to canvas today.  Quick study oil on canvas 16x20.