October 28, 2022 Sometimes paintings need a long time to develop and this portrait is a good example. Based on many different women, I entitled her “Sorrow”. It was in the early stages, summer 2021, when we decided to convert my basement studio to a ‘delivery room’ for our now resident feral cat Mitsy. I put the paint… Read More »
October 22, 2022 Sometimes things are just meant to be. Recently, after completing two intense portrait paintings, I relaxed my muscles and worked on a fun little project shown in the screenshot below. And this week I found the perfect frame for it! The 12/16″ acrylic painting is based on a couple of reference pictures by my friend… Read More »
October 9, 2022 I don’t typically paint ‘celebrities’. But I have made an exception for this fabulous 95-year young (!) survivor of the Holocaust by the name of Dr. Edith Eger. I am currently participating in a beta version of her new self-development course and I am quite taken with this very special child of the Universe. As… Read More »
October 5, 2022 High time to show you one of the pieces I have been working on recently: ‘The Moody Monk’. This painting is based on an experience during a trekking through the Himalaya in Nepal. It was 1992 and I had decided that I wanted to do something extreme to keep life interesting 🙂 I chose a… Read More »
September 8, 2022 Today I exchanged my paintings on display in The Artstore (a.k.a. ‘The People’s Gallery’) with a new batch. His Majesty Humba, my Lion’s portrait, and the rest of his tribe can be visited there for the rest of the month. The Gallery is open during store hours, which means doors are closed on Sunday and… Read More »
September 4, 2022 What started early July 2022, is now done: the Drawing America summer course with Jennifer Gennari has been completed. And here it is, the result of many, many hours of painstakingly following the method of the old masters. Normally done in oil, but I have never shied away from a challenge, so this portrait was… Read More »
August 8, 2022 Since 2010, this handsome tiger named ‘Ustad’ a.k.a. T24, has killed several villagers and park managers in northern India. He is no longer living in the wild, but inhabits the Sajjangarh zoo in Udaipur, India. I found him incredibly inspiring to paint. Ustad is not your regular tiger, if there ever was such a thing…… Read More »
August 3, 2022 Today I dropped off four of my paintings in Waterloo, Ontario. The location is a cute little gallery named ‘The People’s Gallery’, that is part of a well-stocked artstore, on 91 Caroline Street. I wish we had an Artstore like that in Milton! I depend on regular arts and craft stores for my general supplies… Read More »
July 26, 2022 I am currently busy with an interesting summer course. It will take me right to the end of August so not many chances to do other than the homework. I will of course share the results when it is all done. I can tell you that it looks promising at this time, but we are… Read More »
July 11, 2022 I wish I could claim that this was based on one of my own photographs… but it is not. I took a series of phone pictures during a television documentary about the North Pole a while ago, as inspiration for a future painting. The other day, when I was playing around with paint pouring, the… Read More »