Licking The Bowl With GrandDad
Granddads carry the awesome responsibility of passing the important traditions down to future generations. Carbon pencil on paper, 8″ X 8″
Category: Portraits
Portraits
New Bike
Acrylic on canvas board, 10″ X 16″
Mother and Daughter
Pencil on paper, 8″ X 10″
First Trip To The Beach
A baby’s first trip to the beach can be an exiting adventure. Amazing sights, sounds, smells, textures and plenty of room to just run and run and run. Acrylic on canvas. 24″ X 30″
Laughing Boy
Carbon pencil and color pencil on gray paper. 10″ X 14″
Hang On!
Trains are fun, especially for children. But once you get inside you realize you can no longer SEE the train. This drawing shows “Mimi” hanging on to her grandson who is determined to lean out of the window to watch the train as it moves down the track. Carbon pencil and colored pencil on color […]
First Father, First Son
This is a painting of a father and son, separated by war, seeing each other for the first time. It could be any war. It just happens to be World War II, my father and me. Acrylic paint on canvas, 18″ X 24″
Arno und Phillip
This came from a larger photo of the Brau-Etzel family of Round Top, Texas taken around 1906-07. The two boys are my grand-uncles, my grandmother’s brothers. Some creative compositional changes were made. Acrylic on canvas. 30″ X 24″
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One of my heroes, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran theologian who could not ignore the abuses by the Nazis. He left Germany and spent time in England and in the United States but returned to his homeland to participate in the resistance. He was eventually arrested in 1943 and executed just before the end of […]
Backyard Croquet Lesson
Granted, if you’re going to play croquet you need to mow the grass a little shorter but the three year old grandson didn’t know it mattered. Pencil on clay-coated paper. 7″ X 10″