Figurative
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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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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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My paintings typically emerge slowly, they haunt me for a day or three or twenty-three until they suddenly freeze in their tracks, say boo! and — eventually — disappear.
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My paintings and drawings are the result of a wrestling match between me and the canvas. During this process I rework, erase, and even turn everything upside down to correct things, repaint and retry. One of the unexpected things that happens is that the lines and layers of the final image give it a history.…
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Be cautious when fixing your work. It may lead to an entirely new piece. I can’t leave well enough alone.
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A luminous figure appears — just in time for Valentine’s day! — and she reads a short, sweet poem to you as you watch her disappear
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A painting of a young woman, standing barefoot in an open doorway, offering a cup of coffee.
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Cara is Italian for beloved. What do you say to your beloved when you see her pausing in the doorway, her cup poised just above the saucer midway to her lips, barefoot, and enchanting? Do you say, “Hey!” Or do you just stand there, gaping, speechless, arrested by her charm? I’m more of the “Hey!”…
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A young woman in a vast castle peers out of an open doorway
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A figure flits from room to room.
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This is a mystery of portraiture: the subject sits and the artist interprets. Does the artist allow his or her own thoughts and biases and filters to affect the image? Absolutely! How could it be otherwise? Does the subject reveal all of her innermost thoughts and feelings on her face, in her demeanor, in her…
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I’m excited to announce a new show for 2021! About 40 of my new digital art images will be displayed at the Trueblood Popup Gallery at the Student Union Building on the campus of Boise State University. The show will run from January 10, 2021 to March 14, 2021 and was curated by Fonda Portales.…
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I decided to break out of the box a little and go below the shoulders. For the past year and a half I’ve been concentrating on faces and I wanted to go beyond that and work on the whole person. This is my first in, hopefully, a long series.
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Playing around with pen and ink in my little wee moleskin-like sketch pad on the 4th of July. What could be more patriotic? I’m basically trying to do the impossible (again) and make black ink appear to look smooth and gray. Yeah, that’s what pencils do, I know, but every time I pick up a…
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Felicity Houseghost, 13 x 18 inches, oil on canvas In the shadows lie the mysteries. Did you notice what’s lurking in the shadows today? Carol Robinson just posted a sneak peek of the new work in my show “Houseghosts.” The show opens May 7th, 2016 and runs to the end of the month. Did you see what…
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My show at the Carol Robinson Gallery opens on May 7th. I delivered 11 new pieces to the gallery this week for the Houseghosts exhibition. I completed this painting in Old Algiers while staying for about a month at a little shotgun home on Bouny Street. The painting’s title reflects my attachment to two of…
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Doorways are red, Houseghosts are blue, Just when she’s needed, She comes into view.
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This painting of the Annunciation was finished this week. It is based on a painting that I completed several years ago and purchased by my friend, Dan. The earlier painting served as the starting point for this piece. The Annunciation will be part in an exhibition in New Orleans in March along with the works of other artists represented by…
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Merry Christmas!
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I’m kind of accidentally experimenting with sort of a reverse painting technique where the colors come first and the drawing comes next. If this were done in the proper way, the drawing would definitely come first, then I’d pick up my box of Crayolas and color in between the lines. But this is, of course,…
Angels on Bikes 