Steve Carney Fine Art 

Historians say that it was common to have to defend yourself s when traveling in a stage coach back in the wild west. Sometimes other people thought they needed the coach worse than you did or wanted it's payload by trying to get the driver to pull over unless they were willing to “defend the coach”.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

The BIG land owners of the past were spread out so vast, they sometimes got a little lost even on their own land. That's where a good map and sense of direction came in handy. It also required a good strong tight family to over come the problems of big land ownership, but to them, the hard work required was worth the effort.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

This group of famous characters that reenacted out real life stories of the old west, showed us how challenging life really was back then, which makes the rare moments special when they were all caught laughing in good spirits at the same time.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

It wasn't often to see a bunch of cowhands on a cattle drive that were use to sleeping under the stars to have an opportunity to get inside out of the elements and practice one of their favorite pass time events that they looked forward to at the end of a hard days work, “Cowhand Poker”.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

The old Mail train cars that were connected to the locomotive train had schedules to meet, so weather on foot or horse back you couldn't be late with that last minute letter.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

Sometimes when so many of us try to make our voices heard by being louder than the people around us, we all get louder and louder and end up loosing the meaning of our message. It is then, that we notice how powerful a the soft spoken voice can be with just a hand jester of suggesting that we “Whisper”

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Where is she going? Where has she been? She doesn't seem to care for the moment, she is just having fun on her bike, peddling down the road. Sometimes, it doesn't matter where you are going as much as it matters “how you get there”.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Sophy is waiting at the bridge in deep thought. Weather she sees him face to face or back to back, will they will be crossing the bridge together or alone?

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Sam is waiting at the bridge in deep thought. Weather he sees her face to face or back to back, will they will be crossing the bridge together or alone?


For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

As time marches on in our busy lives, the clock ticks time away. Now and then we encounter a quiet, slow time to think and reflect on the time we have used and the time we have left.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Weather it be the first “Road” you ever took or the last one you have yet to take, many of us wonder what is down that “Road”, and over that next hill.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Even though it's a gloomy day today, tomorrow could be brighter, just over the hill. The man in black is on the road that could take him to a new life with new opportunists, filled with brighter days soon to come!

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

It's amazing how much communication there is when two minds are open and innocent! No pulling or pushing involved, just guiding with simple gestures of kindness is a powerful force that helps bond them together.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

This young resting traveler who came ashore to feel the solid ground below her for a while, must have drifted off in a mid day nap, day dreaming of where the seafarer sailing boat will take her next.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

The timeless ritual of watching a beautiful sun reflecting through tall timber and across a body of water as it lowers over the horizon is inspiring, but sometimes requires a good old log to sit on to thoroughly enjoy the experience that much better.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Oirginal Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

She's off to her favorite fishin' hole again. Sometimes the enjoyment is just not being at one of your favorite spots, it's the beauty around you on the trip there, and nature has sure done a good job providing this to her on this path.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

It would be hard to find a more peaceful spot for reading and solitude, than to be surrounded by some of natures most beautiful settings. Only she knows what subject she is reading about. There is no visible name on the book so that the viewer can finish the story that this painting tells.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

There are a lot of ways to get to one of the many beautiful “paradises” that nature has provided us with. As you can see, this girl has decided to use a paddle to get there!

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

Sandy is another tribute to the pinup artist of the past. She's like a fish out of water and not set up to travel the path she has taken. If she wants to pick a tropical destination from the direction signs that she's helping to hold up, the end result will be very similar, but worth the trip.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

The tropics have a lot to offer....Warm weather, sandy beaches, beautiful blue water, fun in the sun and usually lots of pretty "Tropical Treats"

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

The Chase is on! He's not really sure just what he would do with that bird if he actually caught it, but just like many adventures in our lives, the fun is in the chase, and not necessarily in the capture.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Some task in life never change through the years, just the method of how they are done. Cattle are hauled around the country by various ways, but years ago, the cattle were required to move their selves under the direction of a team of seasoned characters.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

This painting is special to me since we restored a locomotive very similar to this one. I have a lot of memories about firing it up & steaming down the track that we laid. Steam power is unique, but requires a lot of careful attention to avoid any " Trouble on the Tracks. "

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

Nachos and tropical drinks are a great combination, but when they are served right on the beach from a “ bamboo beach bar”, they taste even better!

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

Usually coconuts fall from the tree on there own, but some times you just can't wait and have climb right up that tree for one. Inspired by vintage pin up artist of the past.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

She's getting all decked out on the dock, waiting for that special someone who promised her a ride in their sailboat. All she needs is the correct hat, suit, and a big smile to have a fun filled day of sailing. She also was an inspiration from a pinup gal of the past.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

Sometimes, it can be hard to figure out where the “beauty” can be found in a picture. between the subject, the background or even the photographer.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

As Dean Martin used to sing, “Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane”.....
The places she's been and the story's she could tell, she documents it all with a reminder of each stop displayed on her traveling bags. Looks like she will soon require new bags or be forced to stay on one island and quit hopping around.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

“Jewel” is on the hunt again for one of her favorite treasures, Jewels. Will she find any this time on her own from her treasure map and compass, or will she get some help from the little bird to show her what's in the sand under her foot?

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

The goal with this painting was to give the viewer a sense of “peace”. Her stretching pose seems to simulate a “statue” of beauty. A sunset or sunrise is always intensified reflecting over water creating a wide spectrum of color value as the light creates a glow around the objects in it's path.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Purple from one end to the other, another one of natures amazing acts along with the orange glow from the setting sun. Such of a dramatic pose should give the viewer a sense of peace all surrounded by one of my favorite colors, purple.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

You would think that nothing seems more peaceful than the reflection of the moon across water at night time, but there is something that can sometimes enhance that experience. A gal in a peaceful pose on the bow of a beautiful wooden boat helps.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Emerald, turquoise, or greenish blue. It doesn't really matter what color you call it, mother nature can really come up with some brilliant colors when it comes to water being on the move with the sun just right at a certain spot in the sky, at just the right angle and time of day.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Big Surf.”

Once again, there's no end to the variety of colors that can be produced when sunlight fights to radiate through layers of water as it's on the move. This effect is really prominent when the sun is lower in the sky behind the surfer.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Big Surf.”

Many shades of blue are produced when powerful ocean waves churn up water with the sun shinning through it, giving the surfer an expression of awe. The goal with the splash was to make the viewer feel like they are almost getting wet as well.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Big Surf.”

A dark tropical forest background makes the seasoned airborne surfer stand out more in the sunlight more than normal. The bottom of his board gave me an opportunity practice painting graphics similar to some of the ones I used to paint on cars.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Big Surf.”

Sunlight is so powerful it lights up and adds color to the under water world, but looses it's power, heading down into the dark abyss. The hit and miss rays of light and shadows created by surface water movement cast on her were required to give the illusion of being under the water.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu.

I can tell you first hand, that the Grand Tetons in Wyoming are over whelming since I used to live close to them and skied their slopes, and they make a magnificent back drop when a seasoned Horseman gets to show off his skills during round up time!

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

A cowboy really looked forward to having a hot meal back in the old west. A lot of extra preparation time was required back then to achieve that, but they didn't seem to mind because it wasn't every day that they did get a hot meal, especially at lunch time when they were out on the prairie.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.

This old bridge carried many old prospectors, drifters and adventure seekers with a dream of a new life in the old west that they were helping to build. This image was not only inspired by one of my favorite movie sets, but also from a small similar settlement that I was involved in the construction of years ago.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

One of the first steps in most any kind of land development is the use of the transit used by the surveyor. This instrument has been around for several centuries and it's method of function and basic design did not changed too much, contrary to the land it surveyed.

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By the look on her face, the red headed judge at this year's festival in town was sure happy to be the one to announce, “And the winner of this years Arm Wrestling contest is"…....

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Wow, talk about a ride with a view! It wasn't the smoothest, but there was only a few forms of transportation with a seat back then, and this was one of the best to take you up through the mountains and take you places where a train could not.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

The horse was named “Lurch”. More of a work horse than people hauler. The scenery is from a ride on a trail close to Breckenridge Colorado where the sun was hiding behind the clouds that chilly day.

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Life in the old west demanded a lot of time doing the extra work required just to get the daily functions of life completed that had to be done just to survive back then. That's why when a cowboy took a brief moment to surprise the women in his life with a hug, it made the moment, that much more special.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

The wild west was full of hazards, like harsh weather, lack of roads, lack of food and water, full of ferocious animals and sometimes close encounters with bullets and arrows.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

Who knows why they were fighting and who started the conflict, but it looks like arrows were coming in from all around and bullets were flying out in all directions cause they were “Surrounded."

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

Heavy artillery has been around for several hundred years. One of the most famous pieces is the Cannon, which is sometimes looks like a piece of art. After building several large antique reproduction cannon years ago, painting an image of them in a painting seemed natural.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

Fishing is one of the oldest out door activates enjoyed by many people. Weather its for food or just family fun seeing the fish coming out of the water is always a thrill for all.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

A women on the hunt with the help of her dog Jake and her shot gun. What a combination in the Mountains, but they make it work. It requires a lot of skill and practice to achieve the end goal of putting some fresh food on the table.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

Historians say that it was common to have to defend yourself s when traveling in a stage coach back in the wild west. Sometimes other people thought they needed the coach worse than you did or wanted it's payload by trying to get the driver to pull over unless they were willing to “defend the coach”.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

The BIG land owners of the past were spread out so vast, they sometimes got a little lost even on their own land. That's where a good map and sense of direction came in handy. It also required a good strong tight family to over come the problems of big land ownership, but to them, the hard work required was worth the effort.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

This group of famous characters that reenacted out real life stories of the old west, showed us how challenging life really was back then, which makes the rare moments special when they were all caught laughing in good spirits at the same time.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

It wasn't often to see a bunch of cowhands on a cattle drive that were use to sleeping under the stars to have an opportunity to get inside out of the elements and practice one of their favorite pass time events that they looked forward to at the end of a hard days work, “Cowhand Poker”.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

The old Mail train cars that were connected to the locomotive train had schedules to meet, so weather on foot or horse back you couldn't be late with that last minute letter.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

Sometimes when so many of us try to make our voices heard by being louder than the people around us, we all get louder and louder and end up loosing the meaning of our message. It is then, that we notice how powerful a the soft spoken voice can be with just a hand jester of suggesting that we “Whisper”

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Where is she going? Where has she been? She doesn't seem to care for the moment, she is just having fun on her bike, peddling down the road. Sometimes, it doesn't matter where you are going as much as it matters “how you get there”.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Sophy is waiting at the bridge in deep thought. Weather she sees him face to face or back to back, will they will be crossing the bridge together or alone?

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Sam is waiting at the bridge in deep thought. Weather he sees her face to face or back to back, will they will be crossing the bridge together or alone?


For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

As time marches on in our busy lives, the clock ticks time away. Now and then we encounter a quiet, slow time to think and reflect on the time we have used and the time we have left.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Weather it be the first “Road” you ever took or the last one you have yet to take, many of us wonder what is down that “Road”, and over that next hill.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Even though it's a gloomy day today, tomorrow could be brighter, just over the hill. The man in black is on the road that could take him to a new life with new opportunists, filled with brighter days soon to come!

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

It's amazing how much communication there is when two minds are open and innocent! No pulling or pushing involved, just guiding with simple gestures of kindness is a powerful force that helps bond them together.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

This young resting traveler who came ashore to feel the solid ground below her for a while, must have drifted off in a mid day nap, day dreaming of where the seafarer sailing boat will take her next.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

The timeless ritual of watching a beautiful sun reflecting through tall timber and across a body of water as it lowers over the horizon is inspiring, but sometimes requires a good old log to sit on to thoroughly enjoy the experience that much better.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Oirginal Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

She's off to her favorite fishin' hole again. Sometimes the enjoyment is just not being at one of your favorite spots, it's the beauty around you on the trip there, and nature has sure done a good job providing this to her on this path.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

It would be hard to find a more peaceful spot for reading and solitude, than to be surrounded by some of natures most beautiful settings. Only she knows what subject she is reading about. There is no visible name on the book so that the viewer can finish the story that this painting tells.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

There are a lot of ways to get to one of the many beautiful “paradises” that nature has provided us with. As you can see, this girl has decided to use a paddle to get there!

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

Sandy is another tribute to the pinup artist of the past. She's like a fish out of water and not set up to travel the path she has taken. If she wants to pick a tropical destination from the direction signs that she's helping to hold up, the end result will be very similar, but worth the trip.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

The tropics have a lot to offer....Warm weather, sandy beaches, beautiful blue water, fun in the sun and usually lots of pretty "Tropical Treats"

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

The Chase is on! He's not really sure just what he would do with that bird if he actually caught it, but just like many adventures in our lives, the fun is in the chase, and not necessarily in the capture.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Some task in life never change through the years, just the method of how they are done. Cattle are hauled around the country by various ways, but years ago, the cattle were required to move their selves under the direction of a team of seasoned characters.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

This painting is special to me since we restored a locomotive very similar to this one. I have a lot of memories about firing it up & steaming down the track that we laid. Steam power is unique, but requires a lot of careful attention to avoid any " Trouble on the Tracks. "

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Westerns.”

Nachos and tropical drinks are a great combination, but when they are served right on the beach from a “ bamboo beach bar”, they taste even better!

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

Usually coconuts fall from the tree on there own, but some times you just can't wait and have climb right up that tree for one. Inspired by vintage pin up artist of the past.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

She's getting all decked out on the dock, waiting for that special someone who promised her a ride in their sailboat. All she needs is the correct hat, suit, and a big smile to have a fun filled day of sailing. She also was an inspiration from a pinup gal of the past.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

Sometimes, it can be hard to figure out where the “beauty” can be found in a picture. between the subject, the background or even the photographer.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

As Dean Martin used to sing, “Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane”.....
The places she's been and the story's she could tell, she documents it all with a reminder of each stop displayed on her traveling bags. Looks like she will soon require new bags or be forced to stay on one island and quit hopping around.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

“Jewel” is on the hunt again for one of her favorite treasures, Jewels. Will she find any this time on her own from her treasure map and compass, or will she get some help from the little bird to show her what's in the sand under her foot?

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Tropical Feel.”

The goal with this painting was to give the viewer a sense of “peace”. Her stretching pose seems to simulate a “statue” of beauty. A sunset or sunrise is always intensified reflecting over water creating a wide spectrum of color value as the light creates a glow around the objects in it's path.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Purple from one end to the other, another one of natures amazing acts along with the orange glow from the setting sun. Such of a dramatic pose should give the viewer a sense of peace all surrounded by one of my favorite colors, purple.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

You would think that nothing seems more peaceful than the reflection of the moon across water at night time, but there is something that can sometimes enhance that experience. A gal in a peaceful pose on the bow of a beautiful wooden boat helps.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Peaceful Pose.”

Emerald, turquoise, or greenish blue. It doesn't really matter what color you call it, mother nature can really come up with some brilliant colors when it comes to water being on the move with the sun just right at a certain spot in the sky, at just the right angle and time of day.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Big Surf.”

Once again, there's no end to the variety of colors that can be produced when sunlight fights to radiate through layers of water as it's on the move. This effect is really prominent when the sun is lower in the sky behind the surfer.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Big Surf.”

Many shades of blue are produced when powerful ocean waves churn up water with the sun shinning through it, giving the surfer an expression of awe. The goal with the splash was to make the viewer feel like they are almost getting wet as well.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Big Surf.”

A dark tropical forest background makes the seasoned airborne surfer stand out more in the sunlight more than normal. The bottom of his board gave me an opportunity practice painting graphics similar to some of the ones I used to paint on cars.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu to “Big Surf.”

Sunlight is so powerful it lights up and adds color to the under water world, but looses it's power, heading down into the dark abyss. The hit and miss rays of light and shadows created by surface water movement cast on her were required to give the illusion of being under the water.

For availability and purchasing information, please go up to the main menu to “Original Paintings” or to “Prints” and use the drop down menu.

I can tell you first hand, that the Grand Tetons in Wyoming are over whelming since I used to live close to them and skied their slopes, and they make a magnificent back drop when a seasoned Horseman gets to show off his skills during round up time!

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A cowboy really looked forward to having a hot meal back in the old west. A lot of extra preparation time was required back then to achieve that, but they didn't seem to mind because it wasn't every day that they did get a hot meal, especially at lunch time when they were out on the prairie.

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This old bridge carried many old prospectors, drifters and adventure seekers with a dream of a new life in the old west that they were helping to build. This image was not only inspired by one of my favorite movie sets, but also from a small similar settlement that I was involved in the construction of years ago.

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One of the first steps in most any kind of land development is the use of the transit used by the surveyor. This instrument has been around for several centuries and it's method of function and basic design did not changed too much, contrary to the land it surveyed.

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By the look on her face, the red headed judge at this year's festival in town was sure happy to be the one to announce, “And the winner of this years Arm Wrestling contest is"…....

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Wow, talk about a ride with a view! It wasn't the smoothest, but there was only a few forms of transportation with a seat back then, and this was one of the best to take you up through the mountains and take you places where a train could not.

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The horse was named “Lurch”. More of a work horse than people hauler. The scenery is from a ride on a trail close to Breckenridge Colorado where the sun was hiding behind the clouds that chilly day.

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Life in the old west demanded a lot of time doing the extra work required just to get the daily functions of life completed that had to be done just to survive back then. That's why when a cowboy took a brief moment to surprise the women in his life with a hug, it made the moment, that much more special.

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The wild west was full of hazards, like harsh weather, lack of roads, lack of food and water, full of ferocious animals and sometimes close encounters with bullets and arrows.

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Who knows why they were fighting and who started the conflict, but it looks like arrows were coming in from all around and bullets were flying out in all directions cause they were “Surrounded."

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Heavy artillery has been around for several hundred years. One of the most famous pieces is the Cannon, which is sometimes looks like a piece of art. After building several large antique reproduction cannon years ago, painting an image of them in a painting seemed natural.

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Fishing is one of the oldest out door activates enjoyed by many people. Weather its for food or just family fun seeing the fish coming out of the water is always a thrill for all.

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A women on the hunt with the help of her dog Jake and her shot gun. What a combination in the Mountains, but they make it work. It requires a lot of skill and practice to achieve the end goal of putting some fresh food on the table.

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