Some of these were drawn in hard places, some in quiet ones. All of them come from the same story.
Two Mule Deer — 2009
Made on prison card‑stock in Hill Top, drawn for my brothers and the country we grew up in. A quiet piece of home in a place that had none.
Restoration Shed — 1991
Sketched from the fragments that never made it to restoration. I always liked the broken ones — they had more to say.
Prancing Horse — 1990
An early pencil piece that stayed with me — from a family flyer to the pages of The Desert Outlaw.
Pottery Corner — 2006
Drawn with the floppy pen in the first stretch of my long run. One of the first signs the artist in me was coming back.
Two Horses — 1993
An oil painting from my freshman year, back when I was still learning what kind of artist I was.
Big Horn Abstract — 1995
A junior‑year experiment in abstract color, my take on big horn sheep when I first started pushing past realism.
Self‑Portrait — 1993
A freshman‑year drawing, the first time I turned the pencil toward myself
Skulls & Rope — 1995
A junior‑year watercolor built from a still‑life I arranged — painted exactly as I saw it.
1994- A colored‑pencil piece from high school that won first place and traveled farther than I ever expected — all the way to the Colorado State Capitol and the Colorado Institute of Art.
Old Work, 1995
A colored‑pencil still life from high school, drawn from the worn things that always felt like home to me.
Anasazi in Space — 1992
Drawn in ’92, a colored‑pencil piece where I let Anasazi pots drift through space the way they moved through my mind back then.
The Marlboro Man — 1993
An early oil painting from high school, back when I was still learning what mediums fit my hands.
White Wolves — 2009
Drawn at Hill Top on smooth card‑stock with the prison pen from T‑25 to Life. My last piece before the outside world pulled me forward again.
Anasazi Magpie — 2025
A pencil sketch from a few months ago — a magpie shaped in the old designs, marking my return to the work that never left me.
Cougar — Early 2000s
A piece from the years when addiction dimmed my craft. I drew to remember who I was, even when I couldn’t bring a drawing all the way home.
Cliff Dwelling Memory — 1999
A stubby‑pencil drawing from my first stretch of county time — a memory of the cliff dwellings I was still searching for.
Arrowhead Forms — 1994
A colored‑pencil study from high school — twelve shapes, all speaking in the form I’ve always been drawn to.
Self‑Portrait — 1994
A colored‑pencil portrait from my sophomore year, drawn as I was still learning how to see myself.
Arrowhead Study — 2025
Drawn in rehab with a ball‑point pen — another moment of using arrowheads to remember who I am.
Elk at Sunset — 1993
Painted my freshman year — a bull elk slipping into the sunset, one of my early oil pieces.
Pottery Study — 2007
Made in county jail with the floppy pen — memories of the pottery I loved, drawn in the year when the artist in me began rising again.
Raggedy Ann — 1994
A colored‑pencil drawing from ’94, a simple still life of Raggedy Ann on a chair.
