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Phish
Jun 29, 2015
Phish. 16x16, oil on linen. 2015 With the studio tour over and done (and what a great weekend it was!), I realized that I needed to catch up on my backlog of work. Over the past week I've been locked away in my studio trying to get ahead with the five commissioned paintings that I've promised to do ...
Barn Cat
May 7, 2015
Barn Cat. 12x9, oil on linen panel. 2015. Composition and palette are fundamental elements of my work. Today I revisited an older painting that I thought would benefit from a different approach to both. The original panel was divided into a light half and a dark half. The barn door in shadow be...
Piletina
May 4, 2015
Piletina. 12x12, oil on linen panel. 2015. More than anything else, I wanted this painting to be about the light and the way it varied in intensity from top to bottom and front to back. My starting point was a reference photo taken last year. There was out-of-focus chicken wire in the foreground whi...
Daisy
Apr 22, 2015
Daisy. 12x12, oil on linen panel. 2015. This is another small painting for which I did a color study. Like many of my recent works, I spent more time on the edges than anything else. They helped to give the figure some life and prevent it looking like a cut-out....
Kuku
Apr 15, 2015
Kuku. 12x12, oil on linen panel. 2015 This is one of those paintings that was stuck in my head and had to get out. The main idea behind the orange background was to do a painting that would complement the blue green in Portrait of 817. Although I didn't set out to have the orange so domi...
Wicket
Apr 9, 2015
Wicket. 12x12, oil on linen panel. 2015. The wild rabbits living in our neighborhood are always at risk of being painted. This little chap was hiding under a bush the other day when I managed to take his picture without spooking him. He still had his winter coat and was adorably fluffy. The surface ...