This is a portrait study of an old friend of mine with whom I lost touch a number of years ago. She was Russian and fluent in five languages. We met in a French conversation class at the local college and took a fun trip to Hawaii together. The reference photo for this portrait was taken in Hawaii. Later, I attended her wedding to an Argentinian man on Kauai. I hope she's doing well. I suspect so. She was brilliant!
I was in the right mood to paint this loose, spontaneous abstracted bouquet. I get like this every year just before spring hits, and I may have another one in me before too long. This was fun!
This is another portrait study I had done in 2024 of someone known to me as "Gary's friend." This time I just had fun with it, not so concerned with getting a likeness as I was with the interplay of colors.
This was a quick and loose portrait in thick paint, something I've been wanting to do for ages. I was in the right mood for it, and it worked!
This is a scene from New York City back when yellow cabs were ubiquitous and helped define the color character of the city. That iconic yellow no longer predominates like it once did. Everything in this world is transitory.
This is my rendering of a bouquet of flowers left in honor of Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who was gunned down by ICE agents in Minneapolis on 1/24/2026. They are partially covered in snow and ice, lest we forget the cruel irony of his martyrdom.
It's been a while since I've posted any paintings to my blog due to a ruptured aneurysm, followed by a fall that led me back to the hospital with a fractured lumbar. It's been a slow healing process and I can only spend a couple hours a day, tops, standing at my easel. Hopefully, that time will increase as my bones continue to mend.
