A plein air painting setup of Flagler Pier with the scene in the background

Plein Air Paintings & Sketching

These plein air paintings from personal surroundings reflect Michael’s deep attentiveness to God’s presence in the ordinary. These paintings were created using a variety of media, including watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and digital painting techniques.

Acrylic landscape showing a wooden pier reaching into blue ocean waves

Flagler Pier After the Hurricane — Acrylic

Mixed media painting of a historical stone fortress with a footbridge

Castillo de San Marcos — Watercolor & Digital

Watercolor illustration of a large yellow-and-black grasshopper labeled 'Fedge'

Fedge the Lubber Grasshopper — Watercolor

A sketchbook page showing a fisherwoman, a prickly pear, a palm tree, and a sand flea

Florida Studies — Watercolor

A sketchbook page showing a fisherwoman, a prickly pear, a palm tree, and a sand flea

Firmament — Digital

Watercolor studies of a reef gecko, a tree, and Flagler Pier beach view

Gecko, Pines & Shores — Watercolor

Watercolor painting of rooftops with trees in the background

Why lock myself outside of my house when I could lock myself on top of my house? — Watercolor

Acrylic painting of Flagler Pier during sunset with waves crashing underneath

Flagler Pier at Sunset — Acrylic

A-frame house on a rocky hill with a winding fence under pastel skies

Rocky Shore — Acrylic & Colored Pencil

Watercolor page of a suburban yard and traffic lights with Psalm 9:10 written above

Sunsets & Psalms — Watercolor

Watercolor landscape of yellow fields and distant power poles

Green Lakes! Oh, Sweet, Sweet Green Lakes (But this isn’t the actual lake part) — Casein & Colored Pencil

Fred the Great

High School Portfolio