This is how I want to paint, with the pentimenti. The beauty and poignancy of mistakes is one reason for the power of a work of art. It is why I love looking at drawings, where the thought process is still evident. When I find myself unable to paint it is usually because I am trying to be perfect: an impossible task. If people expect it of you, run.
Painting and Drawing Read More »
So far a lot of bad news this year but hoping for better times ahead for myself, my wife and my friends.
Something Old, Something New, Feeling Blue Read More »
Today was the first day I felt I could work in my studio in many weeks. I began this 16 x 20 inch oil sketch. It is a preliminary study for a larger 30 x 40 inch painting I will be making. The figure in the background and the snake in the foreground are taken from a drawing in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. The dog is Sammie, of course, while the figures are models on the Croquis Cafe website. The composition’s subject is how I see things now. That is rather like hell. However, the presence of Sammie, whom I only added towards the end of the workday seems to indicate I am feeling less hopeless. A good sign.
I am happy with this just as it is but I will most likely do more work on the background ‘drawing’
I am loving the colors in the skin tones so far. The figure behind these two men will be a drawn figure, and I am not certain how I will do that. So I am playing it by ear. This painting is 30 x 40 inches.
Painting I am working on now Read More »
I updated the paintings page of this website, confining the work to approximately the last seven years so these images had to go. They exhibit my more expressionistic style, and some are painted collages, juxtaposing images from my personal photographs as well as those found in special collections and archives.
From the archives Read More »
This painting was created in response to our perilous political times. We are indeed in the Lion’s Den and though I do believe in a higher force at work, only our common sense will save us. Though it is nice to think that faith alone can be a guiding light, we all see faith so differently, that in the political context it gives less comfort than perhaps it should.
Daniel in the Lion’s Den Read More »
This portrait is in the Ellarslie Open at the Trenton City Museum until September 29th of this year
