Capturing the beauty of Nebraska's Wildlife as seen through my eyes.

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A Little Inspiration

“Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art is the triumph over chaos.” – John Cheever

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” – Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss

“Every artist was first an amateur” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James Whistler

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy

“A picture is a poem without words” – Horace

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” – Albert Einstein

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.” – George Sand

“There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents” – Bob Ross

My Galleries

Nebraska Wildlife

A gallery featuring some of Nebraska’s own wildlife species.

Raptors of the Refuge

A gallery featuring a special series of artworks dedicated to the educational and ambassador raptors at Fontenelle Forest and the Raptor Recovery.

Other Wildlife

A gallery featuring wildlife not found in Nebraska.

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7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? 10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”

-Job 12:7-10 New International Version Bible

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2020 – Life and Art

Jan 21, 2020

Happy New Year! It's 2020 already and I'm getting back on track. Last year , life threw a curve ball and the last 6 months of the year very little was completed in my art. In July everything came to a stand still as we had a family medical emergency. Things...

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