A remarkable 21st century female torso…

A fertility symbol that is actually as old as art itself. Caked oil paint and Sennelier oil pastels on oil … More

Hey, I’m not complaining!

Someone has to do this stuff, why shouldn’t it be me! Oil on A3 oil paper, April 15 2020

Seated woman in blue, posing

Free painting based on a rapidly made sketch, probably unfinished… but anyway can’t work on it because the paint is … More

Venus of the woods

An impression of the Irish ash in winter, oil on canvas panel, 5 x 7″, Mar 18 2020

Hitomi (ひとみ,) Hokusai (北斎,) and Mount Fuji (富士山)

Now, after a great deal of thought and study, I have found a pathway that actually leads somewhere / some … More

Let the painting begin! [WIP] (A portrait of the artist Hitomi Tanaka)

N.B. This is merely a preliminary underpainting to the oil painting proper, i.e., it is NOT the finished work. Pen … More

Legs

Pencil on paper (cropped from the image of a larger drawing) September 21 2019

Sunflower girl painting proper begun, image roughed in, background spatial issues resolved, long way to go though…

Oil on canvas, 30 x 32″, Sep 1 2019 Happy to have started and made some decisions… Oh how I … More

Detail from “How to open doors with just a smile”

You can keep your Marilyn Monroe’s and Elizabeth Taylor’s and Angelina Jolie’s… and the rest of them… this girl, this … More

View with a strange cloud formation above the mountain (after a charcoal sketch)

Oil on canvas, 32 x 24″, Apr 24 2019