A Painting Today

8 x 6" oil on panel sold This was taken from my time at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, during a special exhib...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold One thing I love in museums is witnessing people really connecting with art, like this young man w...

My painting of a dearly departed best friend of a friend. 

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I just returned from my second visit to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.  I love the museum...

I've been working on several paintings for a client.  They are officially sold but I wanted to show them to you. 8 x 10" s...

8 x 10" oil on panel sold Jasper Johns was one of the most influential American painters of the 20th century who produced o...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I'm home from a road trip up to Virginia to visit with family and got to visit the National Po...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold My oh my, I'm glad to be back to painting a few small pieces.  I've been working on severa...

6 x 6" oil on panel sold You might have run across Edgar Dega's sculpture of the young ballerina in several different a...

8 x 6" oil on panel sold It's been my observation that men really like this Portrait of Balzac by Auguste Rodin.  The ...

8 x 6" oil on panel sold The woman here is seemingly taking a cue from Pointing Man by Alberto Giacometti in the Museum of...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold This new painting is a smaller study of one I'm thinking of doing larger.  I wanted to test ou...

I'm on a forced break from painting - my studio Mac is in the hospital.  So I'm gardening.... ~ Happy Mother's Day to all the...

8 x 10" oil on panel sold Anyone who has been in the Art Institute of Chicago knows when you walk through the lobby and up ...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I took a break from a larger painting and enjoyed a looser, more painterly scene in the Art Instit...

8 x 10" oil on panel sold We are the fortunate ones here in the United States.  We can see Vincent van Gogh's iconic Th...

A shout-out to my good friend, Karen Hollingsworth , who has an opening tonight at the Principle Gallery in Charleston SC.  Go by the gall...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold Happy Easter. A good day to paint a woman viewing Savior of the World by Leonardo da Vinci. ...

9 x 12" oil on panel sold  My new painting features Edward Hopper's New York Movie which I last saw at the Art Institu...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold Now I know it's not nice to stare but I have this thing about fabrics.  Especially patterned, ...

8 x 24" oil on panel sold Of all the paintings by John Singer Sargent, this one, which I got to see in person, blew me away...

9 x 12" oil on panel sold I'm still working on paintings for my show Sargentology , but it's high time I posted tho...

Thank you for visiting my blog and keeping up with my paintings. Wishing all a very happy, healthy, creative and sweet new year...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I took a break from painting larger pieces and loosened up with this flirty moment - a woman seemi...

"And to All a Good Night" by Norman Rockwell Mentioned today in Charley Parker's artblog Lines & Colors. ~...