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Bradford
Mar 20, 2015
Bradford. 14x11, oil on linen panel. 2015. The portrait sketch of Bradford is now finished. I made a few small tweaks to the nose and collar and did some general tidying up since it was first posted. ...
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 ...
Figurative Portrait in Pencil
Feb 6, 2015
49ers. 20x16, pencil on hot press watercolor paper. 2015 Starting with a grainy cell-phone photograph I created this figurative portrait by reducing the picture to about 4 values and eliminating as much of the background clutter as possible. As usual, I laid down the drawing in a series of layers: a...
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...