A Painting Today

These weeks just fly by, don't they? I'm working on a mini-solo show opening June 19th, at the 16 Patton Gallery in Asheville - al...

I'm open to your questions all weekend - ask away. Before you leave your question, you may want to read the past Q&A's first o...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold Sometimes I think I do my best paintings on rainy days. Less distractions. Total Zen. This older gentlema...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold From the sunny steps in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold Knowing I'll be in New York next month for the workshop, I pulled up some photographs taking in the cit...

I just finished four new paintings for a group show at Howard/Mandville Gallery - you'll see those in a couple of weeks. Three are dogs...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold From where I sit and paint, I can see the one Dogwood tree that was here when I first bought my house fifte...

5 x 7" oil on masonite sold And now for something completely different.......... a street in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Canary Isla...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold Ode to April - I'm glad you're here. This gentlemen is in charge of keeping the Central Baptist Ch...

9 x 12" oil on masonite sold Two sharply dressed women I spotted in the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Please click here for a larger ...

8 x 8" oil on masonite The fun of painting a marble sculpture is that it's a figure, which I love to paint, and the creamy-white s...

16 x 7-3/4" oil on masonite sold This new piece is another visual obsession of mine - lines of people. When there are several figures...

I'm back home - returning from the opening reception for a three-artist show at the Morris & Whiteside Gallery held Friday evening ...

6 x 12" sold If you do some people-watching on any beach, you're bound to see the likes of this woman, truckin' down the edge o...

My good friend Karen Hollingsworth is one of the hardest working artists I'll ever know - same with her husband Neil . Every so often...

9 x 12" sold Painting people viewing art is a favorite theme of mine, noticeably, and there's a couple reasons why - the opportunit...

6 x 6" oil on masonite sold From my afternoon of Zen, which included a quiet, comforting, rainy day.

14 x 6" sold I'm not a great fan of abstract expressionism, with an exception to Franz Kline's work - which seems to have a hol...

3 x 11" oil on masonite sold Happy Spring to you - although I have a great appreciation for the soft, grayish tones of winter, I found...

8 x 8" oil on masonite sold I could really dig being right there, on the water's edge, how 'bout you? This painting was a tou...

12 x 12" sold With this new painting, again, the minimal background brings more attention to the figures - and especially dressed in bl...

12 x 12" sold I really love placing figures in front of a nearly blank background - concentrating more on the form and playing with the...

14 x 5" sold About five years back, when I was just starting to paint, I emailed a well-known artist and asked him to take a look at my...

12 x 12" sold Front and center, on the third floor of the Art Institute, hangs Gustave Caillebotte's enormous painting 'Paris S...

16 x 16" sold This new painting is the largest piece in the show - done on a cradled masonite panel - and like the painting 'Below...