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New Rooster Painting
Mar 4, 2015
Rooster (study). 20x28, charcoal on paper. 2015 Before starting a new, larger, work I thought it would be a good idea to first develop the concept with some charcoal on paper. What I'm going for is to better integrate the subject with the background. Ideally I'd like for this to be an abstract...
Spartacus
Mar 3, 2015
Spartacus. 14x14, oil on linen panel. 2015. It has been a busy last couple of days: painted this portrait, started another, finished another, made changes to two others, painted a color study, stretched and primed two canvases, then toned 6 panels. I painted this sketch portrait from the customer's ...
Warlock
Jan 29, 2015
Warlock. 22x18, oil on linen. 2015. This commissioned painting of Warlock is the third horse portrait of the year. I tried to paint the edges as dynamically as possible to create the illusion of depth and to make the head more prominent. There's also some sleight-of-hand occurring: I made...
Taking Some New Photos of an Older Painting
Jan 20, 2015
Hannah on the Sofa. 24x30, oil on linen. 2007? This painting of Hannah hangs in our living room. I don't recall exactly when I painted it, but I'm guessing it was 2007 or early 2008. At this point I'd been painting in oils for a few years and created this large painting to help with marketing ...
Pier 66 and Brusque (Final Versions)
Jan 19, 2015
Pier 66. 24x30, oil on linen. 2015 It is often hard to draw a line underneath your work and call it finished. I thought I had completed this portrait but the very next day I saw some areas that clearly weren't right. The day after that I made some more changes. For these conformation portraits of re...
Eros the Ram
Jan 1, 2015
Eros. 20x24, oil on linen. 2015. Firstly, I should be honest and say that I finished painting Eros on New Year's Eve but since I'm unveiling the painting today I'm calling it a 2015 painting. The benefit of this, of course, is that I can convince myself that I'm getting off to a very productiv...