Palms on Aruba

Palms on Aruba

A Commissioned artwork, not for sale.

Metropolitian

Metropolitain

This the entrance to the Paris subway that was outside out hotel in Paris. The Art Nouveau design of the stations in unique among mass transit systems.

Sudlersville

Sudlersville

This little train depot sets on Highway 300 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland

New Prospect Church

New Prospect

Now that Sarah's wedding has passed I will post the picture of the church she was married in. I painted this particular picture and presented it to the Pastor. I also painted a similar painting for Sarah and Alex and presented it to them at the church's wedding shower.

Star Spangled Banner

We visited Fort McHenry a few months ago and captured this view as we entered the fort. This is a replica of the actual flag that is in the Smithsonian.

Flowers at 260 King George

Just a little flower shop at the corner of King George and College in Annapolis MD.

Librairie des Jardins

Librairie des Jardins

We stumbled across the Librairie des Jardins (Garden Bookstore) in the Tuileries gardens of the Louvre. The Librairie des Jardins is located in a vaulted 17th-century chamber beneath the terrace of the Jeu de Paume and Le Nôtre's horseshoe ramp of place de la Concorde. I liked the play of light and dark of the bright sun and shadows and hope that I captured the scene.

Gare du Nord

We had just made the London to Paris crossing in about two hours on the 200 mph Eurostar. As we left the train at the Gare du Nord station I snapped a picture of our ride as it waited to make the return run

USS Monitor

USS Monitor
My version is based on a watercolor by Oscar Parkes. It was the most technical accurate painting available. I made a few technical changes based upon photographs taken on the deck of the Monitor. My painting depicts the Monitor as it steams into the Hampton Roads area on March 9th to engage the CSS Virginia.

CSS Virginia

CSS Virginia
This is an original watercolor based upon my research of the ship. There are many illustrations of the Virginia, none or which are truly accurate. A trip to the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk to view their extremely detailed model provided me with the detail that I was looking to create this painting. The CSS Virginia, erroneously called the Merrimack by revisionist historians , was the most notable of all the Confederate ironclads. It's epic battle with the Union Ironclad Monitor at Hampton Roads is one of the most significant events of the War of Northern Aggression.

The David

CSS David

This is an orginal painting of the CSS David inspired by the work of R.G.Skerrett and numerous Civil War era photographs.

Also known as "the little David", the CSS David was a steam powered semi- submersible torpedo boat that operated around Charleston about the same time as the Hunley. The David was conceived and designed by Dr. St. Julian Ravenel. She was built with private funds at Stoney Landing up on the Cooper river.

The David was designed to ride very low in the water and attack by ramming a ship with a spare mounted torpedo. The David was credited with the first successful torpedo attack in history against the federal New Ironsides, damaging her enough to cause her to withdraw and make repairs.

CSS Manassas

CSS Manassas

CSS Manassas, a 387-ton ironclad ram, converted to a warship at Algiers, Louisiana. Her above-water hull was reshaped to a "turtle-back" form and covered with iron plating. She was given a pointed iron ram at the bow and carried a single gun that fired forward through a small opening. Her low profile made her a difficult target, while her armor protected her against all but the most well-directed enemy gunfire.

CSS Richmond

Another of my R.G. Skerrett reproductions. The CSS Richmond was started at the Norfolk Navy Yard. When the Confederates evacuated the Norfolk area, she was towed up the James River to Richmond, Virginia for completion. She thereafter served in the James River Squadron, protecting the Confederacy's capital city from waterborne assault.

CSS Atlanta

Another of my R.G. Skerritt copies. The CSS Atlanta was a confederate ironclad ram. She was captured after skirmishes in Wassaw Sound and became the USS Atlanta

CSS Palmetto State

The CSS Palmetto State was one of the more successful Ironclads built, she is depicted at anchor in the Charleston Harbor. This is my water color copy of a drawing by R. G. Skerritt, one of the most accurate naval artists of the War Between the States. His original wash sketch of this ship and more can be found online at the Naval Historical center

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-mr/palm-st.htm

Kensington Close Station Flower Corner

While we were in London we passed by this flower stand on the way to the Kensington Close Underground station. Beth insisted that I paint it, so I did.

Ringstrasse

While vacationing in Vienna we encountered the efficient trolley system that navigated the Viennese Ringstrasse

Work Train

We were traveling near Front Royal, VA, when we passed a Norfork Southern work setting patiently on a siding.

Pulteney Bridge

We were on vacation in England when we visited the town of Bath. The Avon river runs through the middle of the town. The Pulteney Bridge crosses the Avon in the middle of town. There are shops built on both sides of the bridge much like the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence Italy.

Termini

The 200 mph EuroStar train as it waits to make the run from Rome to Florence.

High Desert

The Grand Canyon Railway makes daily runs to the Grand Canyon from Williams, Arizona. We had the front row of the Dome Car on the return trip and it was the best seat on the train as we rolled across the high desert

Ponte Vecchio

When we were in Italy in 2006, we visited Florence and saw the Ponte Vecchio, a Medieval bridge over the Arno River noted for still having shops built along it. Butchers originally occupied the shops, but the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers and souvenir vendors.

Tulips

This was a special request from a lover of tulips

C and O

In 1946, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad took five of its Class F-19 Pacific 4-6-2 locomotives and converted them into Class L-1 Hudsons. The new L-1s were covered with a streamlined stainless steel cowl which was painted yellow and silver. The tenders were cased in fluted stainless steel and tapered at the top so they would blend exactly with the new Budd passenger cars. The "yellowbellies" as they were called by C&O crews were numbered 490 through 494. Only 490 survives today and is on display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD.

Steps

We had stopped in the town of Szentendre, Hungary, for a little sightseeing. Beth and I were walking to the old Cathedral on the hill when we had to climb these steps to reach the top.

Silver Meteor

The Silver Meteor is one of my oldest and fondest train memories. Dad regularly fired on the run from Savannah to Jacksonville. When was around 11 dad snuck me into the cab and we made the run to Jacksonville and back. High adventure for a young boy.

Mostem

Mostem is the Czech word for "bridge".
We found this little nightclub located underneath one of the arches of the Charles Bridge in Prague

Highfield

In this winter scene a Western Maryland F3 idles on the tracks at Highfield Station.

Chessie

"Chessie" is a EMD GP40 that is now located at the B&O Train Museum in Baltimore, MD.

Family Lines

The Family Lines System EMD switcher 1165 is similar to the one dad engineered during his last years with CSX.

B and O

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. 6405 is EMD GP9 diesel locomotive built by General Motors in the United States between 1954 and 1963. The newly restored locomotive is parked outside the B & O shops at the B & O Museum

Gettysburg

Located at the western terminus of the Gettysburg Railroad Company, the station is notable for being the site of Abraham Lincoln's arrival to Gettysburg on November 18, 1863, one day before delivering the Gettysburg Address. The station was built in the Italianate style, with arched windows, low-pitched roofs with eaves and decorative brackets that was popular in that day.

Piante e Fiori

Piante e Fiori

(Plants and Flowers)

While on vacation in Rome we came upon this street corner flower shop. After I took the picture I bought a flower for Beth

Morris Island

Morris Island

Morris Island Light is a lighthouse that stands on the southern side of the entrance to Charleston Harbor, north of the town of Folly Beach. The lighthouse now stands several hundred feet offshore. When constructed in 1876 the light was approximately 1,200 from the water's edge. However, the jetties which protect the Charleston Harbor altered ocean currents, resulting in the erosion of Morris Island.

Western Maryland

Western Maryland

This Western Maryland Railway EMD F3 was setting on a B&O Museum siding just after restoration. The F3 was a 1,500-horsepower (1,100 kW), B-B freight-hauling diesel locomotive that was produced between July 1945 and February 1949 by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division.

1309

1309

The massive locomotive 1309 sits in the parking lot of the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD. 1309 was the last Baldwin H-6 2-6-6-2 compounds built and delivered to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in September 1949. Primarily a coal mine run engine, working the curving and heavily graded branches in the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. Most H6s were scrapped, but 1309 was been preserved as an example of steam heritage.