A Painting Today

6 x 8" oil on panel sold Pardon my absence - I've been working on several paintings for a Small Works Auction taking p...

10 x 10" oil on panel sold The span of days you didn't hear from me recently was largely due to my working on this new ...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold When I posted this new painting last night, I said I wanted to add a bit more interesting facts but...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington houses a few paintings by one of it's native sons, Howa...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I saw this exquisite painting at the Delaware Art Museum a few years back.  I felt .... lucky.  T...

On this Easter holiday weekend, I want to say I've completely lost my mind. I've had a long time desire to paint Renoir's Lunc...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold And now for peace.... The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is home to this beautiful, w...

6 x 6" oil on panel sold Considered Pablo Picasso's most famous painting, Guernica , was a powerful political statement...

5 x 5" oil on panel sold My appreciation for the multitudes of colors in a fish.

5 x 7" oil on panel sold My ongoing attention to James McNeill Whistler inspired this new painting - a woman pausing before...

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