Sisters

Oil on canvas 10x10 NFS

This was done on Father's Day and depicts my daughters on a recent trip to Lawrence KS. A gift to my Dad - Happy Father's Day!

In the Garden

Oil on canvas 9 x 12 $125

A quick study of a moment in the day.

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Riverside Park NYC

Oil on canvas 10x10 $125

An evening walk at Riverside park.

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Girl in a Cafe - NYC

Oil on canvas 10x10 $125

From the New York experience...

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Edge of Day

"Edge of Day" 24x36 oil on canvas (on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery, Sedona AZ)

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Sunset Ceremony (Stage 1)

"Sunset Ceremony" 24x36 oil on canvas (final version on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery, Sedona AZ)
This represents a "first stopping point" for this painting. Next week I will publish the next stage. There is no telling what goes on between a beginning and an end. Usually though it is something difficult. The difficult middle. Though at this stage it is the intent to "keep it all fresh", to not make it difficult. To not make the 'will to finish' something that goes too far. Bonnard said a painting is best when it is two-thirds done. What is your opinion?

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Persephone Rising

"Persephone Rising" 36 x 24 oil on canvas $750

This vertical diptych developed as a way of joining two unlikely scenarios, but then finding a gestalt experience through the integration. It was then included in an exhibition on Greek Myths as "Persephone Rising". I was thinking of it as "A Fathers Anxiety as a Daughter turns 16" (she, the daughter was originally depicted on a tight rope). It was the shows curator that identified the Persephone theme. Persephone rises in the spring from Hades where she is held captive all winter. This initiates the cycle of the seasons. She has to return to Hades each year as part of complex bargain struck between quarreling gods.

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Sunday Life Drawing III

18" x 24" charcoal on paper $50.00
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This was a loose and bold linear study in soft charcoal. The head ended up looking a little small, though I measured and double checked the proportions. It might be the way it is sourrounded by the dark hair mass. It was an interesting angle, the same pose for the last three drawings.

Sunday Life Drawing II

18" x 24" charcoal on paper $50.00
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This was an image I just worked into the sheet where I had been doing all my gestures, charcoal is so flexible...the most flexible of all mediums I think.

Sunday Life Drawing

18" x 24" charcoal on paper $50.00
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A twenty-minute life drawing session. This is done at an open studio drawing opportunity we have on Sundays at the arts center. It is such a popular session that we had to create a wait-list on which I am an alternate...so every once in a while I get a call inviting me to come in...

Vignette

14 x 17" graphite on paper $50.00
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A lone figure at the edge of the Grand Canyon.

People at the Canyon

14 x 17" graphite on paper $50.00
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Everyone seems to be in their own world in this moment at the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Sunday Interior

14.5" x 10.75" oil on paper $125.00
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This is taking a drawing experience right on into painting. I like working this way because I feel that the work stays a drawing, open and incomplete.

Couple II

9x12 oil on canvas $125.00
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Couple

6x8 oil on canvas $85.00
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I thought of the title 'couple on the edge' as my first option. It seemed negative - but aren't all couples on the edge? Maybe relationship itself is the edge, for each of us?

Gathering

9x12 oil on canvas (SOLD)

There is a strange and interesting luminosity of figures struck by the setting sun. Sometimes they are quite opaque but reflected light can make them seem almost entirely translucent.

Evening Cliff Dwellers

9x12 oil on canvas SOLD

...and how different are we from gatherings of long ago?

Audience II

9x12 oil on canvas $125.00
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Every sunset is unique and yet universal just as the crowds that gather to watch are always similar yet completly different from the crowd of the previous day.

Audience

9x12 oil on canvas (on display at Susan Pitcairn Gallery Sedona AZ)
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At any given sunset you can expect to see all the continents and many different cultures represented at the edge of the Grand Canyon. All sharing for a moment a singular experience.

A Glance at Vermeer

6x8 oil on canvas panel SOLD
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One might think that dense layers of history would somehow obscure it but this sparkling glance from Vermeer's "Girl in a Red Hat" arrives as if there were no such thing as history and she has still, just now, turned. This is very close in size to the original.