Portfolio

  • Ellery Queen

    "...there is little peace in this world for a quiet, book-loving man." ~The Roman Hat Mystery 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • Philip Marlowe

    "I dug out a cigarette and looked at her with bleak eyes." ~The Big Sleep 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • The Continental Op

    "Women aren't always reasonable; they are prone to disregard trifles, like guns held on them." ~The Girl with the Silver Eyes 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • Nero Wolfe

    "Tomorrow I will cut down to five quarts." ~Fer-de-Lance 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • Archie Goodwin

    "Anyone who takes Wolfe down a peg renders a service to the balance of nature, and to tell him to his face that he was merely a carbon copy of the cops was enough to spoil his appetite for dinner." ~Champagne for One 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • Hercule Poirot

    "If you will allow Poirot to offer you a piece of wise advice:the pursuit of revenge is rarely a good idea." ~The Mystery of Three Quarters 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • V. I. Warshawski

    "Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman." ~V. I. Warshawski 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • Sam Spade

    "...you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth...and enough more to make it alright." ~The Maltese Falcon 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • Auguste Dupin

    "You were asleep, father?" "That's no excuse for incompetence. I used to be able to sleep and think at the same time." ~The Murders in the Rue Morgue 8 x 10 Acrylic on canvas

  • Sherlock Holmes

    "...he did not rise but sat upon the floor like some strange Buddha..." ~The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger 9 x 12 Acrylic on canvas

  • Nick Charles

    "Can you tell us anything about the case?" "Yeah, it's putting me way behind in my drinking." ~The Thin Man 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • Lew Archer

    "It felt like living in a room without any windows. Then it felt like living in a room without any walls." ~Find A Victim 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • Jules Maigret

    "She has an hour to think about answers to those questions, and to think about how in this country we still send murderers to the guillotine." ~Maigret's Dead Man 8 x 10 Acrylic on panel

  • Sam Spade

    To Joel Cairo: "...when you're slapped, you'll take it and like it." ~The Maltese Falcon 8x10 acrylic on panel

  • Philip Marlowe

    "I've been slapped, scratched, punched, knocked unconscious, drugged and shot at...so quit trying to make a milkshake of my insides, will you?" ~Farewell, My Lovely 8x10 acrylic on masonite

  • Sherlock Holmes

    "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ~The Sign of Four 8x10 acrylic on panel

  • Spade and Archer

    "You may have seen her first Sam, but I spoke up first." ~The Maltese Falcon 8x10 acrylic on panel

  • "Aqaba, from the land" From the film "Lawrence of Arabia"

  • "Hot Springs"

  • Inspired by Albert Bierstadt's "The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak", 1863

  • "Angry Earth" Butler's Award Winner

  • Owens River

  • "Big Sur"

  • "Winter Camp Sunrise" From the Debbie Martin Collection

  • Inspired by Thomas Moran's "Solitude", 1897

  • "Striking A Hopeful Chord"

  • "Mountain Starlight" From the Debbie Martin Collection

  • "Cotopaxi" From the Chadick Collection Based on an original by Frederick Church

  • Church Nursery, Lancaster, California

  • Church Nursery, Lancaster, California

  • Church Nursery, Lancaster, California

  • Church Nursery, Lancaster, California

  • Albertson's Market Breakroom, Quartz Hill, California

  • Albertson's Market Breakroom, Quartz Hill, California

  • Brandon Crawford, San Francisco Giants Done in honor of his pitching debut.

  • Raiders/Giants Wall Art

  • "Suppose hot dogs defied gravity."

  • "Suppose books came in 3-D...REAL 3-D."

  • "No nurse, I said I wanted a 'butt-light.'"

  • "Eternal Hope"

    12x36 Acrylic on canvas

  • "SR-71 Blackbird"

    30x40 Oil on canvas

  • "Heroes"

    16x20 Acrylic on canvas

  • "I blame YOU!"

    16x20 Acrylic on canvas Butler's Award Winner

  • "Where's the fish"

    12x24 Acrylic on canvas

  • "Peace as Art"

    18x24 Oil on canvas From the Donna and Vince Scales Collection

  • "Blue Shift"

    30x40 Acrylic on canvas

  • "Green Day"

    30x40 Acrylic on canvas

  • "Taking the Plunge"

    16x20 Acrylic on canvas From the Debbie Montes Collection

  • Untitled

    Prismacolor pencils on paper

  • "R E M"

    Prismacolor pencils on paper

  • "Wild Macaw"

    16x20 Acrylic on canvas

  • Self Portrait

    8x10 Acrylic on panel

  • Self portrait 2

    8x10 Acrylic on masonite

  • Shemp Howard of The Three Stooges

    8x10 Acrylic on panel From the Steve Stewart Collection

  • Cuts of Faith Barbering

    18x24 Acrylic on panel

  • Soldiers of the Cross

    18x24 Acrylic on panel

  • Floyd the Barber

    8x10 Acrylic on panel From the Steve Stewart Collection

  • In Search of the American Dream

    8 x 10 Acrylic on Canvas Panel

  • Beating the Storm

    9 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas Panel

  • Jiminy Cricket

    8 x 10 Acrylic on Canvas Panel