Toe to Toe...Boxing paintings. *Past artwork

 Its been some time since I last posted... I have had some older paintings laying around that havent seen day light in a while, so I thought I would bring them back out.  Below is a series of oil paintings a did in the late '90's  I think around '98-'99 of these boxers. In the recent passing of Joe Frazier, I thought it was the right time to post them.  I have always enjoyed watching boxing and I have always been intriuged by the life of a boxer. The painting are big 2'x 3'  If your interested in the paintings they are for sale...serious inquires only. 

LENNOX LEWIS

WBC Heavyweight Champion in '93

JAMES MURRAY

 Scottish Bantamweight boxer 

(*painting was of his last fight before he died of brain injuries)

EVAN HOLYFIELD 

Former Heavyweight Champion

LARRY HOLMES

Former Heavyweight Champion

Lance Training...

Photo by Grant Brittain

Thought and Prayers for Japan.

Winning or Losing?

   Sheen and Gadhafi - crazy, winning?, angry, on dope, want to take people down, have loyal followers and want to get their message across.

 When I look at these men, I see the reality two broken individuals...lost in the madness and evil of our times...that ultimatly stems from the heart.   Craziness sets the stage and we are the audience.

An old Proverb says, "A fool has no delight in understanding, But expressing his own heart." 

Official World Record Ollie!

Two weeks ago I watched this kid literally knock himself out at a best trick contest in Carlsbad, CA. He shows up at the Maloof High Ollie Challenge in Vegas and gets the world record!  Aldrin Garcia can pop!

Ignorance is there.

This artwork makes me laugh!                    artwork by Steve Olson

  Ignorance - "unproven knowledge" imbedded in someones mind as if it was factual information.  It's interesting how people will base all their understanding or view on a certain people group or person or polictical party just based on what somone tells them or what the news media fortells. We live in the age of technology from iphones to facebook to text and we still can't get the right information. We get a news? story from CNN or Fox news and we get angry or fearful of a certain person or people group.  I see it on both sides of the fence if it be Left or the Right. Ignorance is there! 


  But, saying all of that, I think the real issue is man's heart. Man's heart can be full of hate, ignorant, full of pride, or just plain hard.  The Bible says, "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?  Jeremiah 17:9  

Hows your heart?

A Thing Called Love

Have you ever thought... Where does love come from?


"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." -Jesus