A Painting Today

It's time - I've got to get my bags packed and ready to go. The anxiety level is rising, it always does until I settle into my seat ...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold The steep streets of San Francisco are pretty mindblowing to me. I do know, I'd never rent a car. I jus...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold I have San Francisco on the brain. I can't wait to get there. As I was rolling through the thousands of...

I haven't vanished off the earth - I've been in the final stages of getting this show put together. The painting part is easy, it...

I have copies available of my little 'painting-a-day' artbooks. There's a link to each volume on the sidebar, which will take yo...

9 x 12" oil on masonite sold I took this painting back from a gallery to make room for new work - I like my selection to stay fresh and...

8 x 10" oil on masonite sold I watched a lot of people approach Jasper John's "Flag" - icons generally draw everyone in. ...

12 x 12" oil on masonite sold I do paint a lot of this subject - people inside of art museums - and I want to give you some insight on ...

9 x 12" oil on masonite sold I got in a full day of painting today - I love that. This is a piece done for my upcoming show - I really ...

8 x 16" oil on masonite sold I mentioned that I was working on a larger piece with the same woman as in the small painting "Rummag...

16 x 8" oil on masonite I'm finally getting around to taking some photographs of the work I've been doing for my upcoming show....

7 x 7" oil on masonite sold It was a nice change, to paint a different scene than the usual. It made me think about the beach and the o...

I wanted to give you an update on my "painting a day" artbooks. I had reordered the volume 1, 2 and 3 but Cohen-Rese Gallery aske...

I'm occasionally asked which oils I use and what my palette is made up of. It's best described in these photos of a fresh palette an...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold I've been working on a painting, a bit larger, which includes this woman. I loved painting her. So much...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold As I was squirting out a new palette of oils, I realized just how many tubes were close-to if not empty. I ...

I've had a good day of painting today. A good year of painting . I figured I have done, in a year's time, 259 paintings. Two of whi...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold I really want to do a larger version of this scene, so I thought to try it out in a small format first, to ...

12 x 12" oil on masonite sold This is one of the pieces that will be in my February show at the Cohen-Rese Gallery. The scene was taken...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold There's something about this woman that I really like. I want to paint her in a couple of poses. She wa...

This is only a portion of the newest painting - I'm still working on it, but wanted to show you the red velvet cloak and fur that I was ...

5 x 7" oil on masonite sold After four or so hours of painting a fairly tight piece, which involves a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in...

5 x 7" oil on masonite sold It is so great to be back to painting again. On Christmas day, I made lasagna, put it in the oven, came out...

16 x 8" oil on masonite sold I was so happy to return to painting today, it's been too long without. But now the retail part of my ...

12 x 12" oil on masonite sold This was one of those moments when I saw the finished painting in my head. I was waiting on a guest, in t...