Visiting the Republican National Convention
Living in NE Ohio, I had to the visit the RNC. I spent two hours yesterday in downtown Cleveland. I took a lot of photos but I was still surprised when I got home and…
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Preparing canvases
I spent most of the day drawing, getting two new paintings ready. This afternoon I started stretching canvases. I plan to stretch 6. [caption id="attachment_6224" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Preparing canvases[/caption] I'm a crackerjack canvas stretcher, I've…
In the studio 7/6/16
I've stretched and gessoed a large number of canvases this week. Soon, my store of stretchers will be exhausted. I'm concentrating on several dimensions: 36" x 48", 40" x 50", and 44" x 60". I…
In the studio 5/15/16
I have a lot of small canvases ready to go. By small I mean in the 24' x 30' range. Recently, I started painting landscapes on three of them. You can see the beginning of one…
In the studio
After working on paintings with a lot of figures in them, working on The Photographer's single figure is refreshing. I don't actually know the woman in this painting, which is based on one of many…
In the studio 3/20/16
I made progress on Euclid Avenue I this morning. Progress on the 48" x 60" painting has been slow at times. This canvas is from a stock of 'professional grade' canvases I bought some time back. The surfaces on…
In the studio 2/7/16
Woman in Purple Boots II is getting to that point where it's fun to paint. The groundwork has been done and now it's time to have fun. Painting can be compared to building a house. You…
In the studio 2/1/16
I worked on the two small painting in the upper-right. The portrait is based on a photo I took of a friend in Princeton. It's a very poor photo--underexposed and out of focus. In the…