1. The LA Ritter House Ceiling Project
	The art portfolio is currently being upgraded for easier navigation. <-Right is the Parlor Ceiling of the LA Ritter House in Hutchinson, MN. It is 14 x 27 feet, made with hand ground oil on panel in traditional methods of color in oil. It took 3 years to make.

2. Cokato Museum Mural
	This 8 x 52 foot mural was painted on high quality outdoor panels using hand-ground colors in safflower and linseed oils. It is a major attraction in the town of Cokato, MN. It was widely featured on Twin Cities news media as well. You can read an article about by clicking HERE

3. Pencil Drawing of a 6 Month Old Child.
	This also happens to be my oldest boy son, Gabriel. This extensive drawing is about 15 x 12 inches and has won many awards.

4. Oil Painting of a Golden Retriever.
	This 10 x 12 inch oil painting was commissioned by a wife as a gift to her husband. It was made in memory of Molly, an excellent hunting dog and gentle golden retriever who had passed a year before it this painting was made.

5. Torey Miller Memorial Pastel Project

Soft Pastels on 5.5’x 7.5’ canvas over oak stretchers.   Along with the help of many people I unveiled this pastel painting for one special day at the Otter Tail County Museum where well over 300 people saw it. Then it was hauled to the Center For The Arts where a surprise unveiling party awaited Cindy Miller, the woman who commissioned it from Dassel, MN.     As Ms. Miller specifically wanted to see the creation of a “huge very bright and modern looking pastel” and also to match her décor and the other pastel she had already purchased from my studio plus with “no black colors”. This was truly collaboration. Also, she wanted it to include messages hidden to say, “Daddy We Love You” then it to had to say, “Torey I Love You” hidden in the middle and the bottom. Torey (her husband) was a highly respected young farmer who sadly died of cancer. The three children are theirs. My idea was to see the landscape view out the family’s back window during sunrise. Also I put some mourning doves in. Some way and again without black tires or dirt, she wanted the tractor that was her husband’s in it. This photo actually shows the painting taken unfinished one week before she arrived with a large enclosed trailer and took it the day after it was finished. This painting was also featured in the local Fergus Falls newspaper and also in the Dassel newspaper. A very successful project!

Torey Miller Memorial Detail Remember, this one is soft pastel, (high quality chalk) not oils or acrylics. People often ask, "Will it the color fall off or blow away?" No, it is 'fixed' with an acrylic spray.

6. Cokato Historical Society Mural II

(The one inside the museum)   This wall is down a hallway, beginning with a farmer doing the dirty work on a “Galloway” manure spreader. I remember well the love/hate importance of this piece of implement while spending summers on a dairy farm with Mennonite neighbors. Beyond the ideal of the subject, notice the dimensional effects.        The photograph is made at an angle as on needs to turn slightly to enter the hallway the mural is down. The camera lenses unfortunately distort by squeezing the image, yet this life-size (to scale) perspective gives the viewer the sensation as though you can walk into a world and down the old railroad tracks to a far away place.

8. The Painting of a Tree (Tree of Life)

This oil on Canvas is 15"x30". It is certainly one of (if not the) my most popular paintings I have ever made. Prints of it can truly be found in many important collections of a surprisingly wide selection of age groups. This print is enjoyed by the young and old alike. The original 15"x30", canvas, as well as prints framed both large and small are available in this site's Art Gallery. The colors and pigments are very crisp and bright. This was a very fun picture to make. In fact, I still keep adding more color and details as time goes by.

This is perhaps the most popular "Tree" image. (There are different versions) This one was made by Merit Printing in Minneapolis and is large at over 100 megs! So they are super detailed. To put this in perspective, the web image sample here (right on this page) is less then one meg. The prints are not mass produced. In fact, they are made one at a time. If you are interested, truly it is rare and unique. This image is sold in the ART GALLERY on this site. They come fully framed, matted and ready to hang. (Acid-free/archival quality) Who does the matting and framing? I do. In fact, I even cut the frames from raw wood, paint, sand and put a top coat on. Then I miter the corners as well. The matts are in my stock and I cut the glass by hand, too. How is that for one of a kind craftmanship?