November 9, 2022 I regularly get questions about my chosen medium, acrylics. And how to make sure that the leftovers and soiled rinse water do not get into the environment. There is actually a fairly simple and quick way to do this. Acrylics dissolve in water, but that does not mean that the paints are ‘clean’. The undiluted… Read More »
November 2 I have just come back from another round trip to the People’s Gallery in the Waterloo Artstore. I took ‘The Moody Monk’ and ‘The Sunbeam Child’ back home and, for a bit of creative variety, this time entered a series of 4 photographs on canvas for the exhibition. Three of these photographs were taken right here,… Read More »
November 5, 2022 Both of my submissions were accepted in the juried Halton & Peel Juried Exhibition at Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre in Oakville. Yay! Come visit for an Artist Social/Open House on Saturday November 12th @ 1 PM – 4 PM. If you would like to meet up with me, contact me so we can pick a… Read More »
November 4, 2022 I need your help! It does not happen often, but sometimes a face in a painting just does not feel right. What to do? Oils and Acrylics offer the artist the option to simply cover it with a new layer of paint, that can then be the base layer for something else. What you see… Read More »
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 »