What’s on the Easel

Lost Cat

August 1, 2011

Around 5 years ago I started a tempera painting of a cat dozing in an Adirondack chair. She was a pretty hefty thing. Everyday after eating she would get up in that chair and take a nap for hours in the morning sun. So I decided to paint her from life in egg tempera. I [...]

Read the full article →

The Elusive Charolais Cow

July 22, 2011

Charolais egg tempera on panel 18 by 14 in. private collection A couple of years ago I noticed the pastures around the studio in North Carolina were populated by pure white cows. Numerous cows, spread all over the land of the surrounding countryside. Beautiful creatures, going about their cow business; lying down, grazing and lying [...]

Read the full article →

Welcome

July 21, 2011

Study for Welcome oil on panel, 6 by 8 in. There is something friendly about a front porch surrounded with flowers. I was headed through Ledger, North Carolina on my way to visit a well known basket weaver, when I came around a bend and saw this house, flowers bursting every where. I stopped . [...]

Read the full article →

Black Locust Tree’s Painting

July 20, 2011

Black Locust Tree’s oil on linen panel 10 by 8 in. This group of tree’s catch my eye every morning as I leave my North Carolina studio and  head down Rabbit Hop Road. They are Black Locust tree’s, hard and dense, used for making fence posts as they last decades. Their bark is gnarly and [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →