Paint Your Joy!

This painting was a challenge. The original, self-inflicted challenge was to make a non-specific chunk of the landscape look interesting jus...

I never posted a few of the paintings I wanted to show you from our plein air trip to New Mexico. I will do so now. This is one: a zig-zaggy...

I'm back from the 2012 Salon International and this was my first year to win nothing. I'm encouraged by the calibre of work there, h...

Keli reads from a book of sonnets. William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" could have been written for her: Shall I compare thee ...

This is one of my favorite paintings.  My beautiful model spent quite a little while in the pool, posing for me in her long gown.  She took ...

Keli, my model and sweet young friend, is the subject of this painting.  She is an athlete who loves to read and who never wears a dress.  ...

This is Chelsea, one of my favorite models.  I met her at the Salon International in 2011 and she began modelling for me shortly afterward. ...

The purpose of this painting was to study the light on the model and mix the exact value, temperature and color spot, then apply it in a str...

Madame G reminds me of John Singer Sargent's Madame X. She's one of my favorite models and I painted her all day recently, studying...

I promised you I'd cover the Clayton Beck workshop and all I learned there. This was my favorite: paint small, quick studies working up ...

I did 2 paintings at Longpool in Arkansas; this is the afternoon painting. The morning painting was weaker and my excuse is that I was suffe...

I have a hat. It's a ballcap that has flashlights in the bill. I'm not trying to make you jealous but there are 3 of them: click onc...

On our painting trip, we camped in the state park on Lake Dardanelle, directly across from the only nuclear power plant in the state. This i...

I painted this in Arkansas one afternoon, standing on the shores of Lake Dardanelle. For awhile, two of my favorite peeps were with me but ...