Well, apparently baseball fields are the booming business. This painting was commissioned from the Red Sox painting as an anniversary present for the client's husband.
This painting was delivered to the Griffith Art Gallery recently to add to my collection of works on display there. This is the Lower Falls in Yellowstone National Park.
This was a painting that came from the first scenes of The Two Towers movie from Lord of the Rings. As the camera panned through the mountains, I saw this view and though it might make a good painting if it had a cross on top of the mountain.
I have heard many Christians discussing the concept of Santa Claus. Will I allow my children to believe that Santa Claus magically brings all the "good" boys and girls worldly treasures on Christmas Eve? Will I teach them from the beginning that Santa is not real, but that his persona comes from Saint Nicholas? No matter how the matter is presented, Santa Claus is immensely visible to all from Thanksgiving through Christmas Day. This Santa Claus is meant to remind the viewer of the true meaning of Christmas through subtle symbols. The three gems on the sleigh represent the three gifts that the wise men gave to Jesus. The three holly leaves represent the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The larger, cross star represents the star that the wise men followed in search of Jesus, the Savior. 
This mural was painted in the main classroom for the ABSOP Program at the Department of Youth Services.
As the main classroom for the ABSOP Program moved, the teacher requested that I paint her a new mural, since she lost the old room that had the beach mural. She asked for a mountain scene this time.
This mural was painted from a combination of postcards from Switzerland. This was a castle that my family and I visited in 1998 in Sion. It was such a special trip to take, and I enjoyed it so much, that I painted this for my mother in her spare bedroom.
Twin Falls was painted for UAB hospital in the central monitoring room. They requested that I paint the Birmingham skyline on one side of the room and this painting on the other side.
This mural was painted for a Tuscaloosa resident in their dining room.
Winter in the City was painted in a group room for the ABSOP Program at the Department of Youth Services. This is the room where the therapists would council the students and teach them how to develop attitudes and behaviors that are socially acceptable. They wanted a calm, peaceful painting.
This mural was painted for The Goddard School off of 280 in Birmingham. This view is from the main entrance in to the foyer. The classrooms were located down the halls on each side of this painting. Each classroom had an exotic fish that was painted on cutout wood to identify each room.
This is one wall in my daughter's room, which has now become the playroom. All four walls and the ceiling were painted in this room as a panoramic underwater scene.
Here is another wall of the panoramic painting.
The right side of this picture connects to the left side of the above picture. When my daughter was 2, she decided to help the painting by drawing on the walls with her sidewalk chalk. Thankfully chalk comes off easily.
This painting is currently on display at the Griffith Art Gallery. This painting was inspired by Christian Reese Lassen and many of his underwater paintings.
This painting was commissioned for a resident who just asked for "pretty mountains and sheep." I wanted to paint this mountain as realistic as possible, considering that most of my mountains up to this point resembled Bob Ross's paintings. I initially started painting with the Bob Ross kit, and the rest was self taught through prayer and practice.
This painting was commissioned by a resident who makes his own guitars and other musical instruments. His wife wanted me to paint all his instruments as if they were displayed in a store front window. This painting currently hangs in the music room of his home where their band practices.
This painting was inspired by One Touch by Nicole C. Mullen and from a woman at my church suffering and living with MULTIPLE chronic illnesses. She is one of the most humble, faithful servants that I am blessed to call my friend. The symbolism in this painting is meant to be not only seen, but experienced by the viewer. The red robe represents the blood of Christ, which covers the believer who reaches to God in faith. Look closely at the bottom of the garment. As we reach to touch God, He reaches back and touches us (His hand reaches from the right to touch her fingertip). The shape of the hand mimics the shape of God's hand in The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.
This painting of Moses was painted after the Melekh painting, but obviously close to the same style. I imagined Moses as he gazed across the Promised Land from Mount Nebo, with the afternoon sun in his eyes, being somewhat sad as he knew his judgment was about to come. The blue on his mouth represents the water from the rock that he was told to speak to in order to obtain water for the Israelites. Instead of speaking to it, he struck it, and so incurred the judgment of not entering the Promised Land.
Melekh was painted as the other side of the face of Jesus from Face of Christ. It illustrates the before and after of the crucifixion. Whereas the painting below shows the suffering servant, this painting reveals the glorified King.
This painting depicts Jesus gazing at the cross in the distance, realizing that this cup has to be taken by Him from the Father. This image has been commissioned three different times, and the original was sold through the Griffith Art Gallery.
This was the first painting of which limited edition prints were published. The print sizes are 18" x 24" and 10" x 13". The prices for the prints respectively are $29.95 (+S&H) and $11.95 (+S&H). There were 3,000 prints made with 100 artist proofs. Jesus is dressed in red to represent the blood that He shed, while Judas Iscariot is robed in green. Just as green is opposite red on the color wheel, so Judas was the opposite of the righteousness of God. His hand is also grasping the money bag in this picture. Some of the hidden scriptures in this picture can only be seen in the original painting.
This painting also depicts a ship that is weathering a storm. The Tempest was painted while I was teaching art class at the Department of Youth Services for the juvenile sex offenders. It was a fairly quick painting that illustrated many different painting techniques for the students to grasp.
This painting was commissioned for a baby's nursery which had a ladybug and dragonfly theme. The colors were taken from the crib blanket to match the room.
Jack was painted for a client who wanted this as a gift to his wife for Christmas. He commissioned me to take pictures of his dog in a park and work from the picture that he liked the best. The background was replaced with a scenic view of Yosemite National Park.
This was a fun sculpture to make! It took almost 930 pieces of chewed bubble gum to finish this work. I didn't tell my dentist about this until it was completed:) The idea was inspired by a tree at Six Flags over Georgia where everyone apparently stuck their gum when they were finished with it. Even though it was gross, there were enough colors to do a picture of some sort. So when I got home, I purchased a huge box of gumballs at Sam's that had all the primary and secondary colors and started chewing. Sometimes my jaw would get tired, especially when I had to mix about four or more different colors of gumballs in my mouth at on time, but it was worth it in the end.
This sculpture was inspired from 1 Corinthians 5:17 which states that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The welded steel conveys the old self which is hard and unforgiving with pride, while the laminated wood portrays the new creation that is unveiled when Christ begins His work in a repentant person. As Christ tears down the old self, the individual can begin to understand the hold that sin had on his/her life. The tack welds on the interior side of the peeled steel resemble a fungus and allude to sin being a disease like cancer. The overall shape resembles a person that is bound which corresponds to the scripture in John 8:34 which says, "everyone who sins is a slave to sin." Jesus is the only One who can free us from this bondage, and this sculpture is one way for me to express this incredible truth by means of the gift that God has given me.
This sculpture was made from the big Sprees and Sweettarts that were then glued to a 3/4" sheet of plywood. This became a very heavy sculpture by the time it was finished. The design was meant to represent a supernova explosion of radiating light. The whole piece was only one layer of candy except for the center, where a second layer formed the shape of a cross from which the "energy" radiates.
This work has one several awards including 2nd place in a student juried art show at the University of Alabama and an honorable mention in the West Alabama Juried Art Show of 2001. The twisted wood in this sculpture was inspired from the twisted trees that can grow straight out of rock in the Rocky Mountains. The perseverence that must take place to grow in such harsh conditions reminds me of how God desired His people to grow to be more like Him in this world, despite opposition. People have commented on this work stating that it reminds them of a heart and veins.
This painting was for my brother who loves golf. It was a little tricky painting on plexiglas, though.
This was Hole #9 from the University of Alabama Golf Center that was painted in their mini restaurant. This was commissioned by the Golf Center as well as the picture below.
