A Painting Today

The results of the life of a paintaholic.

Monday, August 17, 2020

"Taking a Shine to Magritte"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold Brett's comment to my finished painting was "The shine on the apple looks like the shine ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

"An Open Book"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold During most of the 1700's the artist Jean-Honore Fragonard was a painting rock star.  The Roco...
Friday, August 7, 2020

"Good Boy"

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9 x 12" oil on panel sold Jamie Wyeth, the son of the great artist Andrew Wyeth and the grandson of the illustrator and art...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

"Drink Up"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold I have a great admiration for the artist Winslow Homer.  He was self-taught.  He was an illustrato...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

"Color is the New Black"

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9 x 12" oil on panel sold When it comes to really feeling the joy of a painting, top of my list is dogs.  Second is featurin...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

"Mother and Child Reunion"

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8 x 10" oil on panel sold Well, after painting my smaller study you see on the post below, I jumped right into a larger, mo...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

"Mother and Child Reunion" (study)

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold The whole time I was painting this, Paul Simon's song was going through my head.  A mother and...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Taz

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5 x 5" oil on panel A gift for my neighbor on this 4th of July - the late and great Taz digging the pool. Have a safe and ha...
Monday, May 4, 2020

"Hard Act to Follow"

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9 x 12" oil on panel sold I spotted this painting on Instagram and recognized it as one of the popular prints I used to fr...
Monday, April 27, 2020

"Welcome Mat"

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5 x 5" oil on panel sold It is an afternoon of Zen painting a quiet, remote house.  Find peace whenever you can right? ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

"Looming"

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4 x 4" oil on panel sold Took a breather from a larger painting to do a little house, one of my favorite subjects.  I spott...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

"The Light of Day"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold If you venture out much of what you'll see resembles an Edward Hopper painting.  Isolated stre...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Karen Hollingsworth

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A shout-out to my good friend and fabulous painter Karen Hollingsworth - tonight was to be her solo-show opening at Principle Gallery in Ch...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Checking in.

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Checking in and hoping everyone is well.  I'm working on one of the hardest reproductions I've ever done of the masterpiece b...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

"Mother Figure"

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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...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

"Valued"

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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...
Monday, February 10, 2020

"Self Interest"

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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...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

"Dream a Dream"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold The most enthusiastic audiences for Edgar Degas' ballerinas are little girls.  Especially popu...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Out of the Blue

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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...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

"Rest in Peace"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold I imagine chefs, who prepared elaborate dishes in their restaurant's kitchens all day, sometim...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

"Feast Your Eyes"

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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...
Monday, January 6, 2020

"Autumn"

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6 x 8" oil on panel sold The very wise art historian Sister Wendy once explained Mark Rothko's work as the natural worl...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

"Ponytails" (study)

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12 x 3-3/8" oil on panel sold The tall, thin, vertical format lends itself to certain compositions but the wide, thin, hori...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

"Back to Nature" (study)

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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 ...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

"Soft Approach" (study)

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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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Karin Jurick
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