I’ve been working on portraits (per this blog- I mean, you’ve seen it faithful readers). I think this is progress. Portraits mean a lot to me. I think when I was younger I thought they were the best kind of painting- I liked the theme and variation very much. I remember in college one of…

    Something I’ve never tried to do is make an abstract painting. I’ve been regrouping after the huge church building- doing experiments, thinking, taking pictures, doing drafts. Usually during this time I come around to wondering if I should branch out by doing a still life or a pure abstraction. If you look at…

  Someone recently said to me that my painting a knight was off the beaten path of what I usually do. Since a high percentage of people who go on this site are people who have lived with me, I’m guessing you, the reader, know that I’ve done a whole load of knight projects. One…

So, not 100 percent done with this painting, but I’m practically done and I’d like to blog about it. I had a lot of fun with this portrait. It’s both a portrait of hands, and a reversal of the last painting I did with boxes, the one where you see the woman from far away…

BOOM! YEAH!   It happened about 3 weeks ago, and I’m still feeling the lift of having meaningful validation. I won for a piece I put in my guild’s show- Pittsburgh Society of Artists. It was a juried show so the person who decided I had won was the owner of Boxheart gallery, which is…

Recently I turned 31- which, honestly, was no big deal. Until I realized that I left Harrisburg- wait for it- seven years ago. Now, some of you, the ones that don’t live in my head and know my thoughts, might not realize how important Harrisburg was. It was only two years of my life. I…

  So– I think it only took 4-5 months all told, but I finally finished this painting. Lot of thoughts. I already did a post about what this painting is about: hint, it’s not really all that empty. Since I already posted about, I’ll explain the thought process coming back to this painting. Recently I…

So, years ago, when I was painting halfway as a joke/wait I’m actually serious guys, I made my good friends Jeff and Elyse Hackman lions for their wedding. ….and then they started having kids. The two lions beneath the big lion picture are for their two boys. Recently, they had a little girl, and they…

Two posts, one weekend. I was looking through my website, and I realized that I’ve never posted about my finished car. I thought I would start with this car portrait- because it’s the only legitimate self portrait I’ve……ever done? Flight goggles, starbucks smock, real tired looking. Three planks in my self portrait platform. It’s interesting-…

  Hey everyone, I’ve been working on the cabinet on and off for a good 3 months now. In between, I’ve done quite a few little experiments. Above is an attempt at rethinking and remapping how I do portraits. I think I’ve felt stifled in that I have felt obligated to create more accurate looking…

  This painting had about 5 finished versions.     What’s the difference, you ask? Well, color balance was really difficult. I really wanted to use purple and stay away from blue and yellow, which are my fall back colors. I ended up, though, overcompensating and doing just too much purple. I tried to cut…

      Have some highlight shots of how accordioned this painting is. Abs bought this painting and has a wonderful wife. This painting captures the feeling of his apartment before that change for him.