"Fred Cantor Saddle-view"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 8" x 10" 2015 This painting has a lot of presence for its diminutive size. I was happy with the movement of the Percheron cantoring around the ring,...
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Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 5" x 7" 2015 These pretty bi-valves were had last year in Healdsburg California at the Passport Wine Festival. Unfortunately I cannot recall their...
View Article"Rooster and Goat"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 8" x 10" 2015 I may go back into this piece. "Daily painting" doesn't allow for glazing techniques, as the idea is to lay it down in a few hours. I...
View Article"American Standard"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 6" x 8" 2015 Bikers have an expression - "Chrome won't get you home." That may be so but it is fun to paint. Not that this is a tricked out trailer...
View ArticleMandala Series #1 - "Four Oysters and a Shell on a Black Plate with Lemon"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 8" x 8" 2015 When I was a youth, one of my early record purchases was a 45 (remember those?) of Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Puff the Magic Dragon.” On the...
View Article"Oysters at the Passport Wine Festival"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 6" x 8" 2015 I really had fun painting this piece. The tooth of these Ampersand panels allows for some great effects. I doubt that I could have gotten...
View Article"Soph"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 8" x 10" 2015 To quote Britney Spears - "Oops, I did it again." That is just so typically me, I have neglected posting work and musings on my blog. I...
View Article"Horse Head study"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 8" x 10" 2015 As promised, I am back at the easel and at the keyboard. Today's painting is a study of a horse head. I may have mentioned that I am...
View ArticleVariations on a theme - "The Conversation" second state
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 8" x 10" 2015 You should be aware by now that my "daily paintings" often serve as sketches for larger works. By their very nature, these small...
View Article"Ginger"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 8" x 10" 2015 This piece is more illustrative than some of my older animal paintings. It has the feeling of a plate in a children's book. Not that I...
View Article"Tanner"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 6" x 10" 2015 This is Tanner. He lives on the west coast with his buddy Coal. I have been wanting to paint a pair of Yin and Yang panels of the these...
View Article"Coal"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 2015 6" x 10" I finally got around to finishing the painting of Coal. I think the slender panels and curvilinear forms work together nicely:
View Article"Porgie in a Jam Pot"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 8" x 10" 2016 I am sure even my staunchest followers have long given up hope of seeing new work coming out of the studio and posted herein and who...
View Article"Pemaquid oyster, shell and lemon"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 8" x 8" 2016 I realize that I have said this a thousand times before but I am going to try and be more faithful in posting to my blog. Hmmm, why did...
View Article"One Hon Bar Oyster"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand gessobord panel 6" x 8" 2015 This little guy slipped through the cracks and has never been posted. He has been sitting on my mantle for over a year. I have been...
View Article"Mike"
Oil on museum quality Ampersand Gessobord panel 6" x 6" 2014 I experimented with scale with this piece. The painting is of Mike, the dearly departed tabby that belonged to my friend Ellen. It is...
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