In the studio 7/5/15
This unfinished painting on the easel, Euclid Avenue II, is from my Playhouse Square series. (Euclid Avenue I has a lot more figures and is still in the drawing stage.) The painting is 4' x…
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In the studio 7/2/15
Woman in Purple Boots is 40" x 50". No part of the painting is finished; I'm in my second passage through it. This painting is has gone smoothly --so far. [caption id="attachment_5222" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The…
In the studio 6/21/15
Unfortunately, the overcast skies resulted in a dark photograph of Sunday Parade. The studio's bank of natural-light lamps washes out the colors in photographs, so I have to make due with this dark photo or none at…
In the studio 6/14/15
I had two more painting sessions on Washington Square. I finally got the pigeons in there (can you see all 7 of them*?). Washington Square has a hole in the middle which is supposedly a no-no.…
In the studio 6/7/15
Grandfather was turned against the wall for a long time; I just didn't like the direction it was going. Since then I've completely altered the background by adding the landscape through the window, and the…
In the studio 5/3/15
I build paintings slowly. I spend a considerable amount of time on the drawing before touching a brush. Once painting starts, I try to work as efficiently as possible. It doesn't always work out--so much…
In the studio 4/26/2015
Junk in a junk shop--oops!, antique shop--and people milling about doing what people do. Main Street #1 is composed from three photos. I moved figures around, as I often do, in a photo of an antique shop…
In the studio 4/25/15
This is a pretty good photo of the unfinished Heated Discussion. It's at the 'get it finished any day now' stage. I enjoy working on details but sometimes I give them too much attention. The stuff…