Fine Art

Random artsy creations

Creating unique works of art the way I want them to be is my passion. Over the last 50 years, I’ve created hundreds of non-commercial art projects in a variety of mediums, including; pencil, color pencil, oil paints and pastels, charcoal, watercolors, pen and ink, acrylics, welded and cast metals, wire, found objects, post-it notes, money, insects, alabaster, marble, spray paint, airbrush, cut-paper, photography, and an assortment of computer software (auto-cad, illustrator, photoshop, cinema 4D, and others).

Fine art - felt-tip pen and colored pencil

Animas – a 3-ton marble sculpture

I completed this marble sculpture in October 2005 after 3-1/2 years. It stands about 4-1/2 feet high and the two pieces weigh around three tons. It was commissioned by a coworker in Longmont, Colorado, and is installed in the garden of the house he owned at the time. It is the second of three stone carvings I have done, and was styled to be reminiscent of the work of Henry Moore.

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Event art and silent auction

Created for the 18th Annual First Interstate Bank Cup in Winter Park, Colorado. It was used in a variety of advertising and marketing materials. The original was later sold in a silent auction at the event for just under $4,000. See the official record at the Colorado Snowsports Museum Hall of Fame.

Skully / Death laughs at us all

A fine art skullpture.

An homage to the helmet – both the helmet used in this artwork, as well as helmets in general – not to mention motorcycles, adventure, life, art, my personal history, and more. It’s a celebration, lament and a personal time-capsule all in one fantastically entertaining art installation.

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The time I met Henry Moore

In April, 1976, I was in my first year of art school at the Kansas City Art Institute. One fine spring day, two of my art school friends and I decided to go hang out on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (which is right next door to the Art Institute).

As we were sitting and relaxing in the warm sun, we noticed a group of people slowly walking towards us from the far-end of the museum grounds. It was an old guy, a woman, and several people hovering around them. After a while, they just happened to walk right by us. The old guy greeted us warmly and even petted my dog (my friends and I are sitting on the park bench in the background of the bottom photo, below). Then they continued on their way and went into the museum, and we quickly forgot about it.

The next morning, I was reading the newspaper, and came across the following article.

To say my friends and I were upset that we met Mr. Moore, who was widely considered to be the greatest living sculptor in the world at the time, and didn't realize it, is a huge understatement. To this day, I wish we had known. Not only do I LOVE Henry Moore's work, he was also the inspiration for me when I created my marble sculpture Animas, back in the early 2000's.

I want to thank Joe Kitchen with the Henry Moore Foundation for helping me acquire a copy of the newspaper article 49 years after the fact.