A Dozen Cookies...

Black & Whites with Blue

10x15, Oil/Canvas Panel/Palette Knife

SOLD

Black & Whites

16x6, Oil/Canvas Panel/Palette Knife

SOLD

Black & Whites with Yellow

12x12, Oil/Canvas Panel/Palette Knife

Curtain Call

SOLD

9x18

Oil/ Canvas Panel/ Palette Knife

New Years Day Self Portrait

11x11

Pastel/Sanded Paper Panel

It is my tradition to do a self portrait January 1 of each year. It starts my new year off with a new painting and checks the roadmap of my face and skills....

Passing....

SOLD

16x16

Oil/Canvas Birch Panel

Palette Knife

Ocean Shower

SOLD

24x24

Oil/Stretched Linen/Palette Knife

Back Yard Plein Air...

Mums

11 x 11

Pastel/Wallis Panel

... finding the movement of light in a back yard still life, this new pot of Chrysanthemums waiting for a proper pot...

Self Portrait...

12x9.5

Pastel/Sanded Paper

Looking intensely in a mirror, I did this self portrait using only Terry Ludwig's Pastel Portrait Set. The only light in the studio was from the north window.  I sat facing the North West...

Vizcaya, Plein Air..

8x6, Oil/Canvas Panel

SOLD

It was great to once again be painting at Vizcaya in Miami, the Italian Renaissance home and gardens of James Deering. With this little painting I wanted to suggest the movement of the brilliant sunlight as it illuminated the splendor of the setting...

Wet 4, 5 & 6.....

Wet #4, Shower Curtain

20X16, Oil/Canvas

Palette Knife

SOLD

Wet #5, Mirror

14X11, Oil/Encaustic Panel

Palette Knife

SOLD

Wet #6, Towel

10X8, Oil/Encaustic Panel

Palette Knife

Wet~ Shower

SOLD

!0x8, Oil/Encaustic Panel

Palette Knife

Wet #3 ~ Sun Stripes

SOLD

15x8, Oil/Canvas Panel/Palette Knife

This is the third in my new series, "Wet".. This painting came about when I saw the early morning sunlight coming through the wooden blinds in my bedroom. The Sunlight was bouncing off a red quilt illuminating the room with a brilliant pink glow...

Ocean View

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Ocean View

16x16, Oil / Canvas Panel / Palette Knife

This is a view of an East Coast sunset in Fort Lauderdale.. The setting sun from the west  illuminated the clouds dramatically and beautiful during an evening walk on the beach.

Faheem, Red Scarf

10x8

Oil/Encaustic Panel

Palette Knife

Big Cypress Palms

SOLD

16x16

Oil/CanvasPanel

.. a revisit to my Big Cypress Moon reference photo with a looser hand and a few modifications, using palette knife only...

Wet... a new series

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Wet

24x20

Oil/Gessoed Panel

I am starting a another series of my male nudes. It will be the "Wet" series, and i hope to have 10 or so in the coming months. With these I will be using palette knives and putty knives to help expand on the looser energy I am looking for.. hope you will stay tuned and see what develops...

A Touch of Chipotle Orange...

  I always try to have my camera ready when I am and out about...I shot my reference photo for this painting while having lunch at The Legal Seafood Test Kitchen in Boston. I was attracted to the backlighting, the gesture of the waiter and the great reflections in the bar.. It was another opportunity to play with the movement in the light..

36x24

Oil/Canvas

Detail/ Ryan

I was very surprised and pleased when a young man in Boston saw A Touch of Orange Chipotle on facebook and recognized himself as the Waiter in my painting.. Thanks Ryan... adding another dimension of Life to my work...

A Little Plein Air..

                                                                             

White Bird of Paradise

10x10

Oil/Canvas Panle

on location

As I Am...

Oil/Canvas

30x24

Seems I do a lot of self portraits... at least the model is always available and affordable. I am working on loosening up my style and continuing my search for movement in my paint. As I Am received Judges Recognition in a recent show....

More Doughnuts....

SOLD

Doughnuts #2 

Tower of Willpower

24x10, Oil/Canvas Panel

Doughnuts #3

Showgirls

15x30. Oil/Canvas

This small series has been a great way to clear my head, be playful and work on technique. There is a lot of paint on these applied in quick and generous strokes. This may conclude the Doughnut series, but  there may be a few more sweet treats up my sleeve...