A Painting Today

Checking in and hoping everyone is well.  I'm working on one of the hardest reproductions I've ever done of the masterpiece b...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold Pablo Picasso's Mother and Child in the Art Institute of Chicago does seem to affect many vis...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold A couple of years back, I got to see one of Amy Sherald's first exhibitions in the Crystal Bri...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I loved this man I spotted in the National Gallery of Art.  First glance, I assumed he was dragged...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold The most enthusiastic audiences for Edgar Degas' ballerinas are little girls.  Especially popu...

An astonishing thing happened to me this week. Out of the blue, I got an email from a woman who explained she had inherited a painting th...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I imagine chefs, who prepared elaborate dishes in their restaurant's kitchens all day, sometim...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold There are some artists who don't have much in the way of biographies, especially those who pra...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold The very wise art historian Sister Wendy once explained Mark Rothko's work as the natural worl...

12 x 3-3/8" oil on panel sold The tall, thin, vertical format lends itself to certain compositions but the wide, thin, hori...

4 x 8" oil on panel sold Another study with a taller, slimmer format - which I really like, to center on the figure with a ...

4 x 10" oil on panel sold I've been working on elongated compositions that are either vertical or horizontal and this w...

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold When I was in high school some 40 years ago, I was obsessed with figure drawing.  I'd cut scho...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold This image is one I've wanted to paint for a long time and getting my feet wet with my recentl...

   6 x 8" oil on panel sold If you're familiar with Paul Cezanne's paintings, you think of landscapes and still li...

12 x 3-7/8" oil on panel sold Since I've been back to painting, my last three - a museum scene, shadows on a tiled floo...

6 x 6" oil on panel sold No paintings to feature here but you can argue that architecture is a form of art.  It can produce...

3-3/4 x 6" oil on panel sold Lucky me, I got to visit the National Gallery of Art in DC last weekend - the same weekend the...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold Feels good to accomplish something again.  What a week. From the Art Institute of Chicago, a w...

My internet service including email has been out for 7 days and should be restored by the end of the week. I apologize for not responding t...

5 x 8" oil on panel sold I thought this different view of a different one of Ellsworth Kelly's Chicago Panels made a p...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold On the second floor of the American Art Wing in the Art Institute of Chicago, the galleries are su...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold I've shied away from painting artists set up in the museum, painting a chosen work of art.  I ...

6 x 8" oil on panel sold There's an expected aftermath which happens after I finish a solo show.  Keep in mind I painte...