Monotype of Spring in the Blue Ridge

Oil Color Monotype, 5" x 4" , painted on zinc, transferred to

Rives BFK using an etching press. click here to bid

This is a small monotype done in a loose fashion. I love this tech-

nique, and wish I had more time to do them. They're tricky though-

for every five that you do, maybe one or two are keepers... Although

this isn't my favorite - I've done so many - it has a nice feel

to it, I think.

Thanks for visiting.

Drawing of Donald Copper

6.5" x 8.5" , Graphite on Drawing Paper,

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Figure Sketch in the Studio

Oil on Belgian Linen monted on board,

5.75" x 7.5" , click here to bid

This was really fun to do. It started out as a quick

sketch in mechanical pencil on some linen canvas

that I had. Then I coated that with polymer medium

with a little turquoise acrylic in it.
Then I painted in the light areas with a little white

and yellow oil paint.

After letting it dry over night I glazed it with Liquin

and Gamblin's Transparent Earth red, and it was all

stream-of-conciousness after that. I know it is loose,

but I rather like the effect, particularly the balance of

the bright turquoise blue and the bright spotlight.

Unfortunately, the beautiful effects of the paint don't

really come across in this photograph. Belgian linen

has a tighly-woven, exquisite surface that is unlike

anything else. It gives a delicate quality to your paint

passages that you sure can't see here! Just try to imagine

it....

Monotype of a New Orleans Fountain Statue

Oil Color Monotype, painted on zinc, printed on BFK

Rives printmaking paper using an etching press

4.5" x 5"

NFS

I didn't have the time to do anything new today, so

this is my offering. I've always been fond of this.

Thanks for visiting.

Sunset Sketch

Oil on Gessoed Wood, 5" x 7.5", click here to bid

I photographed this right after I finished painting it, so that explains

the glare. This was really fun to do. I used a different medium today,

which was essentially just linseed oil with some solvent in it. I usually

use Winsor & Newton's Liquin, and have for years, because it is such

a good glazing medium. But, this is a very frank sketch, so something

where you can just push and smear the paint around is best for

something like this. It's really fun.

Another good sketching medium is Dorland's wax medium. It also has

the advantage that it dries almost instantly, and, it can be buffed up

with a cloth when it's dry. How weird is that? Mix a little Liquin with it

to make it more fluid, and it's really great. By itself it's good for palette

knife work.

Thanks for visiting today.

Christina

Oil on Board, 7 " x 9.5 ", SOLD

I have been working on this image over a series of

years, actually, and am glad to have finally resolved

it. The contrast of her almost-black hair against the

turqoise background is something that has always

obsessed me, but I couldn't rectify the colors in her

face with the rest of the painting. I finally decided to

just "go with the flow", and I'm pretty happy with the

results, which aren't really true to life due to my

camera. Her face is really more colorful than this.

The Young Egon Schiele, a pencil drawing

Graphite on paper, 5.5" square, NFS

I've been getting ready for my weekend workshop all
day, and haven't had time to paint, so I thought I would
"cheat", and post something I've already done.

I love this drawing. I love Egon Schiele's work, bizarre
and idiosyncratic as it is, there is so much beauty there.
I know some people have a difficult time finding that
beauty, but for someone who loves to draw as much as
I do, it is very evident.

Poor thing, he died at a very young age (early 20's I think)
of the pandemic flu in 1918. What a waste of a great talent.
Well, he certainly produced a lot while he was alive.

This was done from a photo of his face at the age of about
sixteen, and clearly shows his intelligence and sensitivity,
I think.

Thanks for visiting today.

Sophie by the Window II

Oil on Canvas on Wood, 7 1/8" x 10 1/2" SOLD

I did not paint this in one day. I have been working

on this painting on and off for a few months now.

It is a copy (in reverse) of a painting I did of my

daughter about seven years ago. I just love the

composition and colors so much that I had to do

another one. It was painstaking, but worth it, I think.

I love the orange/gold/yellow kimono jacket contrasted

with the purple/blue/white kimono robe, and the light

in her hair. Isn't she beautiful? (on the inside, too)

The Actress

Oil on Primed Paper, 4" Square SOLD

Well, so far, I'm doing well with my resolution to

paint every day. I'm really enjoying it too. It's so

stimulating! There are just so many things to paint.

I love painting people, and I love landscapes too.

I have a weekend-long workshop this coming

weekend, and then on Monday I'll be teaching all

day, so I'll have to see how I can work things out.

I don't relish the idea of ignoring my family, but

sometimes one has to do this.

I remember reading, in Life with Picasso, by

one of his mistresses whose name escapes me

at the moment, that he used to paint all night,

and she would deliver his breakfast to him in the

morning. What service! Of course, she was an artist

too - not that that mattered to him, of course......

Then there was Mahler and and his wife Alma Schindler,

whom he forbade to compose...............

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda, Nijinsky and his wife - boy
these guys were intimidated by their wives'
creative urges. What a shame.....

I'm lucky - I don't have that problem. Thank God.

Thanks for looking.

Winter Sunset

Oil over Acrylic on 6" square Linen-covered masonite board

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This small painting is part of my resolution to myself to do a painting

every day except Monday (I teach all day).

I finished the figure paintingyesterday. I'll probably do another painting

this afternoon as it is only 1 pm. We'll see what happens!

This is inspired by a photograph, but the
rest is imaginary.

I wish it would snow!

Sonia's Back

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 7.75" x 10", SOLD

Here is that painting I showed the beginning of a few

months ago. I finally finished it! Don't ask me why it

took so long....you don't want to know. It's a loooong

story.

Anyway, I have another post today - a small landscape

painting I partially made up. But I am very happy with

this one, if I do say so myself. I love the colors. I used

my chromatic grays that I mix to paint the drapery that

she is sitting on. It came out perfectly. Just a little

dioxizine purple and some chromatic gray warm!

So much fun.

Sorry about the glare.

Thanks for visiting today.

Storm over Green Fields

Oil on linen laid down on wood, 6" x 8" - SOLD

As it is the beginning of the New Year, and as life has taken me away

from my work so consistently in recent months, I have made a New

Year's Resolution to complete a painting at least six days a week,

starting TODAY.

These paintings will be for bid starting at $100 in my eBay store.

They will range in size from "4 square, to 8" x 10", or sometimes larger,

and I can't promise they will always be oil paintings, as I love to experi-

ment so much.

This painting was photographed literally the minute after

I finished it - that is why it is so shiny.

Thanks for visiting, and I wish my "followers", and all else who visit

here the Happiest of New Years!

Priscilla

Sunset on a Lake

Another small gouache painting. Will they ever stop? No matter what else I am working
on, I can't help coming back to these. This one was done on light blue Canson pastel paper
and I rather like it...... Size isn't everything, you know.

Thanks for stopping by.

Purple Hill

This is another in the series of tiny gouache paintings that I am addicted

to doing. This is a bit smaller than it really is, but nonetheless, it is

small. I don't know what it is about this medium that encourages me to

work in a miniature mode - perhaps I was a monk doing manuscript

illuminations in a former lifetime - but I sincerely enjoy it. This will

be on a sheet of four on blue paper.

This color isn't completely true, but it's close.

Thanks for visiting.

STANDING MODEL WITH GREEN PILLOW

SOLD

This oil painting was begun on a piece of paper, and then

I decided to affix it to a canvas board with archival adhesive.

It has a bit of nice texture because of this. I always liked this

image, and this is th second version I've done of this .

Thanks for visiting.

Opium Poppy in Gouache

Gouache on Canson Watercolor paper,

4 1/4" x 4 3/4"

Model Back and Colors revisited

FOR SALE SOLD

I decided to re-post this painting tonight, because last

night's image was photographed, and did not do it justice -

I couldn't stand the way the image looked in the end.

So, after using a quick-drying varnish this morning before

going to teach my class, I scanned it in my printer tonight,

and here is the painting the way it really looks. The true

colors, and minus the strange blue glare/glow of yesterday!

Model Back and Colors

Oil on Wallis sanded pastel paper, 7" x 12" SOLD

This painting is much more luminous and lovely than it looks

in this photograph. It is not matte, but rather quite glossy.

It might seem strange to be painting on pastel paper, but quite

a few people do it, because it is an impervious surface, and also

archival. -- To tell the truth, this actually started out as a pastel

drawing, but halfway through, I just got the urge to use oils. There

was something about the light, and the color of the drape that

she is sitting on. I felt like doing a loose, sort of bravura study

and nothing lends itself to that like oil paint!

Head of Hypnos lll, (God of Sleep)

Pastel, Pastel Pencil, and Vine Charcoal on White Paper, 7" x 12"

This is number three, because this actually is the third drawing that I have done of this

head. I have about eight photos of it from many angles, and am just sort of obsessed with

it, I guess. The drawings never look the same, and I have never yet really tried to create the

feeling of the bronze that it was originally created from. I'll have to do that next - that's really fun.

I was fairly satisfied with this, though not completely. There is some inherent ethereal

beauty in this face that makes it difficult to make it appear manly, although in the actual head

itself there are many manly elements that are particuarly evident from certain points of view.

I also find it intriguing just that they had a god of sleep to begin with, and always feel I

am creating something "unusual" to say the least, when I draw this object. I just never

tire of it. I think it is so beautiful. I'm sure I will do many more.

Ancient Roman Sculpture of a Child. ca 10 BC

SOLD

I decided to go back to working in pastels today, although I'm

alternating this with working in oils, to honor some commitments.

For some reason, I really get inspired by images of ancient sculptures.

This child was particularly moving. One doesn't see many sculptures

of many children extant - particularly one this expressive! It was

marble, but I decided, with my "artist's license", to take some liberties

with the color, so I could give it a blue background. I love blue!! Any

chance to put blue in a picture I will always take. And there are so

many hues of it! Actually, my oil palette has about eight blues on it.

They areso inspiring.

Anyway, this is my offering for today. And, as I said recently, I am

beginning, slowly, to offer these things for sale again in my eBay store.

There will be more information about each item there.

Thanks for your interest in my work.