St. Mary’s Church

St. Mary’s Church

St. Mary’s ChurchThis is the original St. Mary’s Church located in Huntley, IL. My parents are very devoted Catholics unlike me. This piece was painted with watercolors on a thick sheet of watercolor paper. It currently hangs on a wall in my parents home....
A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life I loved the skewed close up of this horse in a field with other horses. I decided to exaggerate the skew to give a more interesting view point of a horse up close. I chose to use yellow and red pastels for the horses to create more color and interest...
Riedl Dairy Farm

Riedl Dairy Farm

Riedl Dairy Farm In the beginning of my journey into art I was working with watercolors quite frequently. This piece is of our dairy farm that was located in Huntley, IL. We had Black & White and Red & White Holsteins as you can see in the field. This one one...
Running Horses

Running Horses

Running HorsesOne of my very abstract pieces of artwork of running horses was painted with oils on canvas. Horses are one of my favorite subjects to draw. I wanted to express the speed of the horses by using broad fast strokes of various beautiful colors. And to just...
Twins

Twins

TwinsAs a kid on a dairy farm I had cows of my own that I would show at the county fair. My prize Champion Red and White Holstein had two sets of twins. This was one of the sets, two bull calves. I painted these two with oils on canvas using broad expressive brush...