People often ask me if I enjoy what I do, and my answer is a resounding ‘yes’. Yet there are always going to be aspects to any endeavor that fail to completely satisfy. I remember when I first started drawing in the early and mid-seventies, mostly for pleasure, that I would always carry a sketch book. Spontaneity and creativity were at the forefront as I had no other artistic obligations. I drew things I wanted to, that inspired me or kept reappearing in my mind. As I became marketable specializing in portraiture and aviation art. I found I had far less time to do the things I wanted to. It is a wonderful thing to make a living as an artist, but it can often be frustrating not getting to do exactly as one wants. And yet, if I did only the things I wanted, could I truly make a living at it?

Every now and then I wrangle time away from the pressing matters of the day to help bring to life images that want to appear in some other form than imaginative. Some of these are gone forever; some of them are shown here. Each has been rewarding in the preparation and in the completion, and in the fact that they depart from what I am normally asked to do. Some are for sale, some aren’t. Click away, and enjoy…