A Painting Today

It's been a long time coming ...... thank you all for the patience. I now have my Painting-a-Day Volumes One thru Eight available. ...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold Holy Cow -- #99. As I typed it, I couldn't believe it.

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold You can see the emerald-green ground color I started on - I had no plans to leave so much of it revealed, b...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold I l-u-r-v-e this painting.

8 x 10" oil on masonite sold Back in December, I had short spans of hanging in limbo - in between working and waiting for the closing d...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold First - a huge Thanks for your enthusiastic response to the tabletop easels - we sold out already and Bre...

I've painted on my tabletop easel, nearly every day, for over seven years now. I don't know what I'd do without it. Brett, my ...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold Way back when I started the 100 Faces , I knew hair was one of my challenges - how much detail does it take...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold What sorta came over me with this one is using something besides flesh-tones for the skin - same values but...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold I just love this guy's face. He made for a great painting.

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold Happy Saturday. I'm back in my painting chair for the first time in ...... 9 days. Even weirder than...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold I've come to the conclusion that some people can be rendered in minimal brushstrokes - those who have c...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold As I was working on this guy, it almost felt like I was using pastels. Rather than thick daubs of paint - ...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold Let me respond to a couple of questions while I'm snowbound ....... I don't anticipate I'll st...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold This face was painted on the red you see as the shirt - which I kept as is. The angle of this head was a b...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold Atlanta is officially shut down - it's the most beautiful snow day if you're home safe and sound. T...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold I am very fond of painting on a curry-like ground color, especially for these faces.

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold Up until this one, I hadn't sketched out the face first - on the previous 81, I just started painting. ...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold I hope you don't get tired of me saying it, but this is one of my personal favorites. The hard part is...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold I could have gone further with this - but I really loved it as is. I started on a soft-purple, oddly chos...

I held a workshop last November at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina - an awesome location and space that I loved so much, I'm doing i...

4 x 4" oil on masonite sold Before I run off to work I'll post this new guy. We look at some people and think 'they look like...