2025
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Every year I get a little misty-eyed about Christmas and what it means to me. And so I get to share my feelings with friends and loved ones in the form of a little vignette captured in the form of a Christmas card. This year’s card is a linocut of Sasi and me surrounded by…
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A long time ago I promised myself that I’d one day return to landscape painting. Have you ever made a promise to yourself? You gotta keep it! A couple weeks ago I bought a French easel, stocked it up with good brushes and paints and took it for a spin in the local landscape. I…
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One of my favorite things to do is to read the Goings On section of the About Town page in the New Yorker. In this week’s issue, I came across the word soubrette in a description of an actor’s role in an Off Broadway play. Loving new words, I looked it up and discovered that…
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This drawing reminds me of one I finished a couple years ago called “Queen Mab” after a friend suggested it. Queen Mab is a fairy described by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. She rides through people’s thoughts while they sleep, causing them to dream based on their desires and nature.
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I remember reading a story about Jackson Pollock going into a house where someone had one of his paintings and he insisted on making corrections to it. Apparently that may not have actually happened, but it always stuck with me because I feel the same way. Sometimes there are errors that I simply didn’t see…
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I’m having fun working on this new drawing of a youth. Is he a he? Is she a she? Are they they? Only the model can say for sure.
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Last time I saw an angel I was out on Shore Drive right by the lake. I looked over to a stretch of houses overlooking the water and she just flitted by on her bike. Wish I had a camera, but all I have is my memory to paint from.
Angels on Bikes 