Category Archives: Portrait

Recent portrait: The girl without the pearl earring

I finished this painting a while ago and  today I made the time to photograph it. The sitter is my wife, who has modeled for me for numerous paintings. The title “The girl without the pearl earring” came from a conversation my wife and I were having while I was part way through the painting. […]

Learning from the Old Masters – part 1

Sketches, studies and reproductions I’ve made over the years. In many ways I would have to consider myself self taught, although I’m not a big fan of that way of thinking, especially considering the fact that if one is paying attention, there are teachers everywhere. Since I have no formal training much of my education […]

New Portrait

This is a portrait I finished recently of my friend Minna. I really liked the light in this image, and the sense of a rural or country environment. The first thing that comes to mind though every time I look at it is the word youth.

New Portrait

I’ve been working through about half a dozen portraits and figures lately. This is the first one done. Most of the others are very close to being completed and I’m looking forward to getting on with some new ones and catching up on some ideas I’d like to explore.Over the last few years I’ve become […]

Portrait of Mr. Richard Smith

This is a portrait of my friend Chantal’s uncle Richard Smith. I was really caught by his expression and I was glad for the opportunity to do this painting.

The Thinker

An artist/musician friend of mine and I were having a lengthy discussion about art, creativity and philosophy the other day and this painting came up in conversation….coincidentally I came across the image of it this afternoon. I painted it in 2006 so it’s been a while since I’ve seen it, was nice to see it […]

Leah

I had this painting up a while ago when i was ‘playing’ with this whole blog thing. I was thinking to put this up with some other figurative work later, but decided not to wait.