I make a lot of things. I intend to share most of what I create.
Who knew such a simple object could hold the interest of an oil painter, but it did. This seemingly simple monkey wrench came my way and was placed in my queue of “tools to paint”. It didn’t have my usual requisites in an object of artistic merit. Those being an old tool that combined an…
This is the second time I have made an oil painting of this little old garden shovel. A while back this was the first tool I painted in my tool portrait series. At that time I had no intentions of painting more tools. In that summer of 2012 the shovel went directly from my garden…
This is the same little garden shovel I painted in 2013. The shovel was given to me by my uncle Ted and is super old. I love its unique combination of metal and wood. They certainly don’t make shovels like this anymore. The origins of this rusty old hand trowel lead back to a woman…
I recently sold this miter saw painting. At 24 by 13 inches it’s my largest tool portrait painting to date. This miter saw was inherited by my father. It was given to him by his father, the grandfather I never did get to meet but would have loved to. He sounds like he was one…
This little oil painting represents a slight departure from the tools in my latest tool series. Though it’s not one of the typical hand tools I have been painting I did feel right at home while painting it. Consider this lure to be a fisherman’s tool. The lure’s gradual shift from aqua to silver combined…