‘Joanne’ painting 35×21 inches on tinted paper
Today I completed this (little bit scary) portrait of my Mom (Joanne) painting in white and black Golden Liquid Acrylics over paper tinted blue-gray using dilute sumi and prussian blue applied to the paper by wiping with a sponge.
This and the previous painting of ‘Lee’ completed a few days ago are experiments in the sort [...]
‘Lee’ painting 35 x 21 inches
‘LEE’ 2009, 35×21 inches, acrylic painting on tinted paper
“Annette” 70 x 45 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing
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I don’t know that I so much completed this drawing today as simply called it ‘done’. Either way, I’m moving on! “Annette” is my mother-in-law and she does NOT appreciate this portrait at all — she thinks it makes her look too old and wrinkly (she’s only eighty-one years old, after all) and just hates [...]
Crosby pen and ink drawing with watercolor 90 x 45 inches
When my “Sarah” drawing was first exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the founder’s wife appreciated it and invited me to create a similar life-size portrait of her husband, Crosby, a giant of a man and huge patron of the arts. They loved this portrait and it was later purchased by the museum [...]
“Linda” 75 x 45 inch acrylic painting on unprimed canvas
I’ve been working for a couple of weeks now on a couple of long-term fascinations of mine — painting with a limited palette in a grid, and my wife’s beautiful face ! I suppose this latest endeavor was inspired (in part) by the needlepoint stockings my wife and I are making for a niece and [...]
Self Portrait, painting in acrylic on linen, 60×40 inches
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Today I completed something a little bit ‘different’… Looking back to the velvet paintings displayed at the 5 and dime when I was a kid — maybe they’re still up there today — hula girls, Elvis in all his glory, typical 60’s kitch in stiff opaque color practically glowing out of that black-black velvet…
Well, I [...]
43 x 27 inch acrylic on BFK painting (self portrait improved)
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This painting in acrylics on BFK paper went through several states and many weeks before arriving at an acceptable result. Here’s the final state of the painting:
BFK is a very soft paper — because the tip of the flow-pen actually touches the surface, the paper becomes abraded (deeply abraded) as the tip repeatedly passes over [...]
54 x 29 inch gesture painting (self portrait)
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Another ‘gesture’ painting — this one uses the same gesture character set as my earlier (and smaller) airbrushed “Jim”, but the gestures are slightly larger (1/4 inch squares) and are painted using the Paasche Flow Pencil, so the tip touches the paper. It’s painted on Rives BFK, so the paper surface has been abraded quite [...]
Painting with Paasche Flow Pencil
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I’m working on a short series of painted self-portraits at the moment. I’ve mounted a Paasche Flow Pencil (very much like an airbrush, only without the air — the ‘nozzle’ is conical and a needle valve seats in the nozzle in order to control the flow of paint. The Paasche is not a very high-precision [...]
“Jim” acrylic gesture grid painting on Rives BFK 42 x 24 inches
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Today I completed a second painting of “Jim” using the 16-value geometric gestures from the previous attempt, but scaled down so that each is 0.2 inches square, producing an image about 40 inches high by 22 inches wide. The 200 x 120 gesture grid (24,000 squares) was painted more than six times using four colors [...]

