NEW FACE 8X8 OIL ON PANEL IN WOOD ACCENT FRAME

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Liv Tyler
As it was prescribed to me I thought this "Rembrandt" palette would be an interesting challenge, its Mars black,a permanent red,yellow ochre and white .The oil in the paint is soaked out overnight on paper and an Alkyd medium is mixed with the new dryer oil paints, the mix is not used until it is sticky. .sold...Canada

A Little Rembrandt 5x7 oil on panel unframed

I could copy this Rembrandt portrait a dozen times in a row and  learn something every time. I didn't do a preliminary drawing so the nose is a bit short $60

Sleep 8x10 oil on canvas in darkwood frame

“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.” -Audrey Niffenegger SOLD...(TX)

 

Shoes 8x8 framed oil painting

A previous painting that I livened up $111

Gray 16x20 framed oil on canvas

A touch up here and there, like make the grey background more shadowy  SOLD...(ME)

A Place Near the Sun 8x10 framed oil painting

$100

Eve #3 8x10 oil on panel in darkwood frame

Sort of threw this one together as I enjoyed being in the studio today $100

Shorty 8x8 oil on panel in black 3 inch frame

There are plenty of birds around here ,the fact that I feed them daily may have something to do with that . On this fellow  I was shooting for his personality . Shorty needs a home SOLD...(WI)

ChChChanges

If a painting hangs around the studio to long its subject to change... hopefully to the better, this one sold soon after its  change.The one on the right is just more interesting.

Spotted Owl 6.5x6.5 etching

I had visited the Sonora Desert awhile back and was fortunate to take a photo of this little fellow, I am not sure if this work is finished so we will let it sit for a bit while I study it closer.

Grazing 8x16 framed oil on board

SOLD....(GA)

Rip Van Winkle 12x20 etching

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..To escape his wife and the drudgery of his farm, Rip would sometimes head into the wood...he decided to lie down for a rest on a green knoll overlookingt the forests

Girl with Gladaolas 12x12 oil on canvas in darkwood frame

"Updated" a previous project $120

Steam PM 8x8 oil on wood panel in 3in black frame

$100

“I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.”Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Path 8x10 oil on canvas

A little landscape today $100

Mirror Mirror 22x26 oil on wood panel in frame

$380 for this one in a black or white frame.

Early stages

Mother and Child 9x12 oil on panel

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. 
Jessica Lange


This belongs to someone I think so ...not for sale

Without 8x10 oil on panel in darkwood frame

Its easy to paint light compared to painting darkness. The exercise here was to explore different ways to paint the dark shadow area. Paynes Grey and Transparent Red Oxide make for interesting shadow in the nudes. The web image before you is quite different than the original ...color wise . I do my best to match the colors of the original for the blog but then no matter because each monitor viewing the image is different.   SOLD...(ME)

Kimono 9x12 oil on panel in dark silver wood frame

This was a nude but it needed something so I thought I would try a decorative  Kimono on this young lady. SOLD...(ME)

Red Oak 8x10 oil on canvas in darkwood frame

I still might put a glaze on this one to unify the colors $100

Morning Light 16x20 oil on canvas in 3inch darkwood frame

The blue in the image is much more subtle in the original painting. SOLD...(KY)

Nearly Home 6x8 oil on panel

$99 includes shipping and frame

Mountain Home 11x14 oil on canvas

Slow to step up to the easel for this one ,.."a house on a hill" not my standard cup of tea, but I remembered some artist said that where you have green you must have red .so I painted this one on a red canvas ,for the green in the trees and to the warm of the building. Changing  things up keeps it interesting                        

...SOLD (FL)