A Painting Today

The results of the life of a paintaholic.

Friday, November 30, 2018

"Pondering"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold In the Art Institute of Chicago, there are two paintings and three sculptures by the French artist...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

"Tough Love"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold This marble sculpture by Horatio Greenough, Love Prisoner to Wisdom , is one of my very favorites ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

"Bare Necessities"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold The brave artist Alice Neel, who lived to the age of 84, was largely unknown in the art world unti...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

"Good Morning"

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9 x 12" oil on panel sold The very same day I was finishing this new painting, the news came that the Edward Hopper paintin...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

"Checks and Balances"

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5 x 7" oil on panel sold Our United States Capitol Building in Washington DC.  A place where, hopefully , checks and balanc...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Vote!

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A REMINDER TO VOTE TOMORROW. "Undecided" Norman Rockwell - November 4, 1944
Thursday, November 1, 2018

"Iron Fist"

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8 x 6" oil on panel sold I started this painting on Halloween evening, right before I went inside the house and watched The...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

"Christina"

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8 x 6" oil on panel sold Today I just chose to feature one of my personal favorite paintings, by Andrew Wyeth, Christina...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

"Posturing"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold I've been to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art twice.  Both times, I stop at this por...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

"Boo"

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6 x 6" oil on panel sold On this soul-sucking day,  I thought of one of my favorite paintings Automaton by Jamie Wyeth.  T...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

"Tell Me More"

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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...
Friday, September 14, 2018

"Aspirations"

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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...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

A Personal Thing

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My painting of a dearly departed best friend of a friend. 
Sunday, September 9, 2018

"There's The Door"

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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...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Meanwhile.....

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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...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

"Forty-Eight"

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8 x 10" oil on panel sold Jasper Johns was one of the most influential American painters of the 20th century who produced o...
Monday, August 6, 2018

"Enigma"

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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...
Friday, July 13, 2018

"The Naked Eye"

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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...
Friday, June 8, 2018

"Chin Up"

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6 x 6" oil on panel sold You might have run across Edgar Dega's sculpture of the young ballerina in several different a...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

"High Noon"

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8 x 6" oil on panel sold It's been my observation that men really like this Portrait of Balzac by Auguste Rodin.  The ...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

"It's That Way"

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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...
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Thursday, May 17, 2018

"Matching Set"

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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...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Pause...

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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...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

"Rain Delay"

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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 ...
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Monday, April 23, 2018

"Girlie Magazine"

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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...
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Karin Jurick
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