20x16   Oil on canvas panel.   2013

20x16.  Acrylic on canvas panel.     2007

An early self portrait with our two cats, Sugar and Spice.

20x16.    Oil on canvas panel.     2017

16x20.  Oil on canvas board.    2014

This painting was inspired by a trip my wife and I took to the wonderful ghost town of Jerome Arizona.  We had drinks at the Jerome Grand Hotel which was built as a hospital in the 1930's.  It closed in 1950 and was empty for 44 years.  It became a hotel in 1994. What a view from these windows!

 I took a selfie there and decided to make a painting.  How the "housecat" got in the painting, I'm not quite sure.   They say the place is one of the most haunted places in America...

27 x 27 Oil on birch panel January 2019

An unfinished painting , maybe it is finished...

oil on panel

Private collection:  Bloomfield Hills Michigan

17x14. Oil on canvas panel.  2016

This one reminds me of Van Gogh"s paintings.  I think I painted it from a still life in about half an hour.

16x20  oil on canvas board.  2015?

My Grandma's (Tillie Koykka) kitchen tools from the 1940's

Private collection: Avondale, Arizona

11x14? Oil on canvas board  2015?

[ Destroyed through negligence, in a moving truck, by water. Then thrown in the trash.]

Was in a private collection: destroyed on its way to  Albuquerque, New Mexico

Frame made by Ron Maki

16x20 oil on canvas board 2013

32x22 1/2.  Oil on birch panel.    2015

This is version #2 of "the Garden of Good and Evil"

Frame made by Ron Maki

20 1/4 x 11 1/2   Oil on canvas panel. 2016

The top part of this painting was inspired by a plein air I did at Cranbrook Oriental Garden,  the bottom part is pure imagination.

14x18.   Oil on canvas board.   2012

 This is one of my favorite still lifes, it's my grandma's blue crock, from their farm in Elo Mi.  She made the most delicious apple pies from Transparent apples from the orchard on the next 40 (acres) that my Dad owned.  Transparent apples don't keep long in storage, that's why you'll never see them in a store.  But they make the perfect apple pie!

11x14 (?).    Oil on canvas panel.  2012

Yet another still life painting (on the bottom) and the set-up I painted from - on the top. Private collection, Philadelphia

16x20.     Oil on canvas panel.   2013

I was doing a still life painting at the BBAC and needed some items to paint. I found the statue in some stuff Kaye got from her Mom, Marie, after Great Grandma Ethel Hawke died in Marquette Michigan. The statue is an Art Deco style design that was very popular in the 1930’s, and you’ll often see this type of artwork on Antiques Roadshow. It’s actually on my bookshelf right now, a few years back I put gold leaf on it. I always thought it is very cool ! The trophy was won in the 1930’s by George Hawke Jr. “ Young Man of the Year” I believe. From a Fraternal Organization in Marquette. ( Elks Club ? ) As far as I know it sits on a bookshelf in George Hawke the Third’s basement in Rochester MI. Kaye and I decided that he should have it many years ago. And that’s the last place I saw it, I think it’s still there. The big copper plate I’m not sure where that came from but likely Marie had that too, and gave it to us.

16x20. Oil on canvas panel.       2013

My Grandma's old percolator coffee pot from the 1930's I believe.  She made the best coffee I've ever had in my life.  Along with her home made cinnamon bread (fresh baked in a wood kitchen stove) there was nothing better.  She was the best cook I've ever known.