A sampling of oil pastel paintings of Southwestern landscapes in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. These regional paintings are all in private collections, thus are not for sale, but were included here to indicate one direction the artist's work took over the years.

The oil pastels on this page's online gallery / slide show are:

1. Desert Fantasy (saguaro and prickley pear cactus in a surreal Arizona landscape)
2. Study for Mount Taylor (a quick sketch in preparation for the large oil painting of this mountain for the Sacred Sites series)
3. Study for Blanca Peak (another quick sketch for the large Sacred Sites oil painting)
4. Little Hills (the Cerrillos Hills, lit up by the setting sun)