Bird on a Wire. Highest quality oil on stretched canvass. 16 inches by 20 inches.

(Digitization and computer pixation may degrade image.) Copyright © Stephen R. Schaps 2001

One quality that separates art from science and technology is art has a spiritual quality.

I recognize this quality by recording the Manitu of the surroundings onto the canvas when I paint.
In order to do this, I paint only live plants and animals.

Barbed wire frequently appears in my paintings.

Click on the painting "Desert Dawn" to read more about Manitu imprint.

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