There are two schools of thought on how to learn to paint. The first is the atelier based education where technique takes precedence over vision with the goal that if you know how to draw/paint what's in front of you, you can then have leisure to cultivate a vision. The second school proposes that once…
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Young Pierrot as Hunter
I worked on my new little Pierrot intermittently over the course of a month. I knew I wanted an austere background, gray and atmospheric but I didn't know how to give form to the original idea. Almost through serendipity, I happened on a lovely and very gray George Inness at the American Impressionism show at the New…
The Gambler
New painting available at Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Somehow two different friends on two different occasions said he looks Russian. Maybe he is. He's not actually a card sharp.
Charles and the Wondrous Journey
If you like the poem, check out this YouTube video recital. "A Lullaby" by Alfred Lord Tennyson Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dropping moon, and blow, Blow him again to me;…
La Primavera
"Spring Quiet" by Christina Rossetti (1847) Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing. Where in the whitethom Singeth a thrush, And a robin sings In the holly-bush. Full of fresh scents Are the budding boughs Arching high over A cool green house:…
Wing Clipping – revisiting a theme
New painting now at Meyer East Gallery in Santa Fe. This young winged man is the second time I've painted "Wing Clipping." The first was in 2007.
Small portraits
Two new paintings (available at Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM) of children. I love how the technique used in each of these is particular to the imagined personalities of these portraits. "Boy with Scarlet Bird" is an exercise in greys and a rather delicate handling resulting in a doll-like smoothness with the bright shot…
O Brave New World – the artist’s statement
"O Wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't." -William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" The above quote from Shakespeare is perhaps a fitting artist's statement. To be an artist is to see everything with fresh eyes. One always hopes to preserve the wonderment…
A Grand Affair
Thank you to Rachel Koper of The Austin Chronicle for taking notice of my work in a recent review of "A Grand Affair" group show currently on exhibit through January 31 at Wally Workman in Austin. I think the sentiment is appropriate as I wanted the air of delicacy to infuse these two paintings. Delicate…
Twelfth Night
These are inspired from William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night or What You Will." They are portraits of Viola and Olivia respectively. "I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too; and yet I know not." - William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night" "Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon…
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