16x20" oil on canvas, SOLD
This painting, along with seven others, is going to be available at the San Diego Art Institute's famous C-Note Sale. If you've never been to this event, you're missing out on a fun evening and incredible deals on original art. Here's how it works: all member artists are asked to submit up to eight pieces of original art. They are priced at $100, $200 or $300. The gallery is hung salon style with paintings almost floor to ceiling. People start lining up hours ahead of time and when the doors open everyone rushes to grab their favorite pieces right off the wall! It's a wild scene---think Nordies half-yearly sale but on the day after Thanksgiving--it's that good. It opens on May 17 and pieces continue to sell until June 1. But those in the know go on the opening night!
24x36" original oil painting, SOLD
This painting has just been accepted into The Regional Show at The San Diego Art Institute. The show was juried by Susan Street of The Susan Street Gallery. The opening is on this Saturday night, October 13 from 5-7pm and will be up through mid-November. The theme of this piece is “opposites attract”. In using colors that are opposites on the color wheel, my intention was to create visual tension between the two figures that are connected as a result of juxtaposition and the “bridges” of color. The symbols and words scratched into the background represent the little unspoken electric zings that occur when opposites attract. I originally painted this piece for a show in Houston called "Opposites Attract". But I'm really pleased that it will be hanging here in San Diego first.
8x6" oil on canvas, SOLD
Sometimes, coming up with names for these paintings is just about all the words I can string together after a day of painting. And on those days, I hope the painting speaks for itself. With or without words, I hope it's obvious that I absolutely love to paint!
8x10" oil on canvas, SOLD
Been thinking a lot lately about that mother and child symbiotic relationship. Probably because my son is turning 20 on Sunday. And my daughter, 16--soon enough. Both are milestone ages and both seem so...well, old! Many times when I start a painting I don't intend it to be about my personal life but, before I finish, some thought that's been knocking around in my brain reveals itself in the painting. I guess it's cheaper than therapy...
16x20" oil on canvas
I've been working on a series of pieces for a juried show I'm planning to enter in November. The theme is "Opposites Attract". Of course, my interpretation is all about those faces: big/little, red/green...so many possibilities! The larger format canvases definitely take more time but it feels so good to PAINT BIG after 115 small-scale daily paintings.
16x12" oil on canvas, SOLD
8x6" oil on canvas, (in my private collection)
Some paintings just come together. I don't know what it is...but I love that thing that happens when everything just flows. The colors are right, you've captured the mood, the look, the composition works and you can hang it on the wall and not have that nagging feeling that surely you can make it better. So, on average, I paint around twenty of these small paintings in a month. They're taking over my studio. And right now there are exactly two paintings that I can absolutely say there is nothing else I can do to improve upon what I have already painted. Nothing. And this is one of them. I just really love this piece!
5"x 5" oil on canvas, (in my private collection)
OK, so I promise this has nothing to do at all with living in the same house as my teenage daughter---REALLY, I swear.
12"x 9", original oil on canvas, SOLD
6"x 8" oil on canvas, SOLD
