A Painting Today

6 x 6" oil on panel sold It's high time I featured a woman artist - the very recognizable Mary Cassatt.   Cassatt ...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold Two things inspired me to paint this on Valentine's Day.   The couple, of course, enjoying tim...

sold I don't usually show you my paintings framed but I thought this was so gorgeous, I'd show it before I shipped it off t...

6 x 6" oil on panel sold A couple of weeks back, I was refreshing my memory about William Merritt Chase ( for this post ) a...

6 x 6" oil on panel sold An ode to the beauty of a simple, stately farmhouse in Middle America, Iowa.

 'Into The Light' by Ken Auster Somewhere in 2003,  I was on my 24th year running a frame shop with no other future plans bu...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold Most people know Toulouse-Lautrec for his short stature and his paintings of the Moulin Rouge.  I...

6 x 6" oil on panel sold For many, I hope you are home safe and sound and ready for snowmageddon - I was hoping we'd h...

8 x 6" oil on panel sold Naturally I began obsessing about James Abbott McNeill Whistler after finishing my recent painting...

5 x 7" oil on panel sold Here's one of my favorite paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City - a lar...

6 x 6" oil on panel sold I've always loved this painting by Guido Reni, in the Art Institute of Chicago - 'Salome w...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold One of America's great abstract artists, Ellsworth Kelly, died last weekend at the age of 92. ...

5 x 7" oil on panel sold It's been my observation that most young children are bored in art museums unless they happene...

5 x 5" oil on panel sold I spent 6 long days on a larger painting and gladly moved on to baking cookies and enjoying the fe...

Wishing you a peaceful, happy holiday. not for sale 

SOLD OUT   I created this note card for myself and it's so cool,  I ordered more in the event you're interested.  The front o...

My new 2016 wall calendars Inspiring Artists are SOLD OUT.

That's right, I'm painting upside down.  And sideways. I'm determined to not use my large stand-...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold For the letter X in my series ArtistZ ,  I spent, I'm guessing, five or six hours researchin...

The artist and blogger, Kelley Sanford , has included me in her 'Ask the Expert' series on her blog In The Artist's Studio on ...

Just a head's up - these two paintings are in my studio and need a good home. 'The Reel Thing' 7 x 10" oil on pa...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I absolutely love the figurative paintings by the British painter Euan Uglow - an easy choice fo...

6 x 8" oil on panel  sold I don't remember exactly the first time I saw a Wayne Thiebaud painting - I'm guessing y...

I have two paintings in the Hilton Head Art Auction , held this coming Saturday - I'll include details below.  Auctions can be a rare op...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I'm not sure there is a more perfect painting other than 'Madame X' by the American ...