This collection contains paintings or small studies painted outdoors on site in an alla prima (wet into wet paint) manner without the use of photography.

This collection contains paintings created in the studio with or without the use of photography.  Most of these paintings were painted from plein air studies using photography only as a reference to the original scene.

The painting shown on this collections title page was the Regional Winner for Region 3 of the 2010 National Paint The Parks Top 100 Competition.

This collection contains studio paintings created from photographs largely due to the moving nature of the people or livestock depicted in the scenes.  Many of them, however, were done using plein air studies as the landscape for the visual representation.

This collection containsd paintings or studies that were completed in the studio using posing models.  These paintings or studies are also painted in an alla prima ( wet into wet paint) manner without the use opf photography.

This collection contains studio paintings that range from portraiture to figures in the landscape.  They were created from photography and live model studies or a combination on the two.

This collection contains demonstrations of Mikes techniques in painting plein air studies, live model studies as well as larger studio paintings.