relics remnants and ruins

the three R's

Installation of charcoals and paintings at Anne Kittrel Gallery

Harborcoat: oil on canvas

Green Grow the Rushes: diptych/oil on 2 canvases

Bus Harris: diptych/oil on 2 canvases

Rust in Pieces: oil on Masonite

Behind the Mask: oil on wood

Damage Inc.: oil on wood

All the Kings Highway: oil on wood

Driver VIII: oi on wood /very large 219" wide

Hangar XVIII: oil on wood

Horizon Award: oil on wood /another very large piece

wine run hehe

Murals & Large Scale Drawings

Arizona Memorial: oil on wood

Domino Junction: approx  220"x60" charcoal on gray Rives BFK heavyweight paper

Grace Under Pressure: charcoal

Route 66 Leftover Scraps: 168"x30" charcoal

Miners of Picher Okla: approx life size; oil/concrete

Picher Boom: oil on concrete

Sarcophagi: 46"x33" oil & wax on canvas

Rite of Passage

Gnomanic Depressive

The Joplin Tornado

The devastation was indescribable. You know that feeling when your heart sinks, well I had that feeling all the while I was there. It was a feeling of helplessness, like you want to do more but didn't really know where to begin, but always staying hopeful you would help uncover someone else that was still alive. 

Tornadoes can completely wipe out a community. I know that now, and I have a new respect for that facet of nature's wrath.

Wal-Mart was leveled flat, and several people perished.

This was an Academy Sporting goods store. I heard there was looting there and some guys were trying to make off with several guns, and someone may (or may not) have been shot by police in the confrontation that ensued.

it was like a bomb hit everywhere you went for miles

A shopping center...cars were tossed about like toys.

As far as you could see the trees were swept away. Only bare trunks stood here and there.

Joplin High School

Joplin High School

The series of arches is a walkway between buildings at the high school...I'm doing a painting with these arches as the subject, similar to the painting And A Stream Runs Through It.....only it'll be called, And A Tornado Runs Through It

Trees were entangled in everything it seemed... where trees aren't suppose to be...

more of the high school

The only thing left standing of the St. Mary's Catholic church was the cross -- like a small miracle.

Relics and Ruins

More charcoals from my Wastelands Suite and some oil paintings they led to...

Y.M.C.A.: 30"x22" charcoal on gray Rives BFK... I originally took this picture because I was fascinated by the abstract quality of the windows, and that led to a series of paintings, but eventually this charcoal led to my relic drawings which became much bigger than anything I'd done before.

Cross: 44"x30" charcoal on gray BFK heavyweight... I love the climbing depth in this one.

Field of Beams: 30"x22" charcoal on gray BFK ...this drawing led to several variations.

And a Stream Runs Through It: 47"x41" oil/wax/dry pigments on canvas

Rite de Passage: 30"x22" charcoal on gray BFK ...I gave this drawing to my cousin when he completed his 12 step program to kick drugs and alcohol. That was his rite of passage.

Rust In Pieces: 96"x119" oil on broken masonite

Entrance: charcoal and chalk on handmade gray paper