Much of my work is done outside from life. I’m not a big fan of using photography. I always feel like its cheating. My larger studio paintings are done from the outdoor painting. Sometimes I’ll take elements from different outdoor studies to make one imagined studio painting.
  • A Small Part of Things - 9 x  12, 2010
  • Brewing Storm - 9 x 12, 2010
  • Cascade Falls - 16 x 20
  • Hellooo Down There - 12 x 16, 2010
  • Ice Over - 14 x 20, 2009
  • It Must Be Amore - 16 x 20, 2010
  • King of Clearwater - 8 x 10, 2010
  • March on Clearwater Lake - 20 x 32 studio painting, 2010
  • Grand Marais: Our Fare Village - 14 x 16, 2010
  • Sunrise Over Palisades - 16 x 20, 2010
  • Winter Transporter - 8 x 10, 2010
  • Blue, Grey and Green - 11 x 14 2009
  • Fog Walker - 6 x 8 2009
  • Hansel and Gretel - 8 x 10 2008
  • The Usual Parking Place - 11 x 14 2009
  • The Young Painter - 6 x 8 2009
  • You and I - 8 x 10 - 2008
  • Arctic Paradise — 12 x 16 — 2009
  • Auto Portrait — 9 x 12 — 2009
  • Back Yard — 10 x 12 — 2009
  • Castle Ely — 11 x 14 — 2008
  • Dock Side — 8 x 10 — 2009
  • Johnson’s Bay — 8 x 10 — 2008
  • L.L. Smith Jr. Returns to Grand Marais — 11 x 14 — 2008
  • L.L. Smith Jr. in Grand Marais	Solar Plate etching — 5 x 7 — 2009
  • L.L. Smith Jr. — 12 x 20 — 2005
  • October — 7 x 14 — 2008
  • The Dock at Hovland — 10 x 16 — 2008
  • Old Pilings — 6 x 8 — 2007
  • Painter and Palisades — 14 x 16 — 2009
  • Palisade Head — 16 x 20 — 2008
  • Smokin’ Clouds — 20 x 24 studio painting — 2009
  • Smoked Harbor — 8 x 10 — 2009
  • Studies — 16 x 20 — 2008
  • Trout Derby on Gunflint Lake — 10 x 14 — 2009
  • Tug in Grand Marais — 16 x 20 — 2008
  • Winter on Clearwater Lake — 10 x 14 — 2009
  • Blankenberg Lane
  • Cloud Study
  • Coming Up on Stairway portage
  • Evening Lake Superior
  • Fall in Grand Marais
  • Hjordis In Festive Rigging
  • Ice Night and Lights
  • Ice
  • Northern garage
  • Northern Lights Grand Marais
  • Silver Bay Steam
  • The Right Boat
  • Whoa! Cool Clouds
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