Summer classes are starting this week. Oil Painting – beginning to advanced All skill levels – Ages 16-and up Wednesdays – 6:30-9:00pm My summer oil painting class will start tomorrow. This is a studio class for learning and practicing the fundamentals of painting from observation in oil. The class is ongoing with monthly enrollment, so […]
Green curtain step by step
Green Curtain is the painting currently on display in the Adobe-Patio Gallery in Mesilla, NM for the Border Artists show, Botanica. Here are a few in-progress shots of the work. I’ve never posted in-progress pics before and they weren’t really done at equally distant points in the process, but perhaps it will give you an […]
Painting demo with Russian easel
Two weeks ago I did a quick painting demo at the Botanica show along with Tauna Cole Dorn. There’s a gorgeous plant in the courtyard at the Adobe-Patio Gallery, the name of which escapes me, that has brilliant pink blooms. Quinacridone magenta blooms! The setup I used is a Yarka Russian Field Easel meant for […]
Border Artists’ Botanica show opens
The Botanica show opened tonight at the Adobe-Patio Gallery in Mesilla, NM. It’s an exhibition of the work of members of the Border Artists. Here are a few photos from the opening. Top left, Janice Cook; top right, Tauna Cole-Dorn, Isadora Stowe, & Jean Reece Wilkey; Bottom left, reception; Bottom right, singer-songwriter, Tiffany Christopher. Green […]
Watching David Kassan paint makes me want to be a better painter, or what I did over spring break
Watching David Jon Kassan paint makes me want to be a better painter. A week ago I returned home from a workshop with Kassan at the Scottsdale Artists School in Arizona. David is a talented artist and a great teacher. He is very open, self effacing and generously shares what he knows with his students. If […]
Ceramic bunny with reflection
This ceramic bunny has appeared in several of my paintings. In this case, he is accompanied only by his own reflection. Oil on cradled wood panel, 4×4 in. | SOLD
Twins – Ceramic and gold foil bunny
A conversation between a ceramic bunny and a gold foil covered bunny. Oil on cradled wood panel, 4×4 in. | Available
Gold Lindt bunny
A golden bunny just in time for Easter. I’ve painted chocolate bunnies for a few years but this one still has the foil on. Gold foil is so much fun to paint! Oil on panel, 4 x 4 in. | Click to Bid
Apple cluster
A lovely stack of shiny red delicious apples. Apple cluster, oil on panel, 4 x 4 in. | Available
Scattering of cherries
I’ve always loved Bing cherries and getting to paint them and then eat the still-life is a little bit of heaven.
Clipped Cherry
For a long time, I’ve been fascinated with hanging objects; with items poking into the painting or hanging from some unseen source. I’d been incorporating hung and pinned items in my larger works for a while when someone pointed out to me the still-life paintings of the Spanish artist Juan Sanchez Cotan. Of course, I […]