This canvas was added to the Portfolio on April 20, 2004. My second Coat of Arms and first commissioned work, prepared for one of the oldest known families in England. I was very pleased with how much better this piece turned out than I believed it would when I began. ... Read More
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on May 15, 2004. Here’s a fine example of what happens when an age old doodle becomes a geometric sketch and gets stuck inside your head. The only way to get it out of there is to grab a canvas and some paint. ... Read More
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on July 7, 2024. An image from along the Delaware shoreline. Many years ago when my family was quite young, we made yearly trips to Ocean City, Maryland – with the usual short drive north into Delaware. Along the way we would see ... Read More
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on July 9, 2024. After completing “Sentinels”, I needed to clear my head a bit with a quick geometric work. I’d had this doodle-type image in my sketchbook for more than ten years and wanted to mess around with a background featuring gradations ... Read More
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on July 27, 2004. Painted from a photograph taken by my Mother, this work is overall quite dark but gave me an opportunity to work with a combination of deep colors, subtle reflections and brilliant sky colors.
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on August 9, 2024. Here is a fun little painting. Hey, who does not like fireworks?
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on September 15, 1979. Some might consider the Memorial Chapel at the University of Maryland to be a fairly complex subject to have been selected as the subject for my very first painting in my very first painting class. I can report that ... Read More
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on September 15, 1979. When I was in Kindergarten, my teacher was very concerned that I seemed to express myself during the “coloring” portion of each school day using only red and black crayons. A parent-teacher conference was scheduled. My parents were very ... Read More
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on November 9, 2024. Boiled down to simplicity.
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on November 9, 2024. Birds…flocking together. Get it?? Well, my Mother-in-Law asked for a painting of birds. “Nothing too large”, she said and so I selected an 18″ x 12″ canvas. Ask, and ye shall receive! I especially enjoyed painting the cardinal and ... Read More
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on November 27, 2024. An interesting doodle that came to life. Following the background gradations that I had toyed with in the painting “Cloud”, I expanded on that technique a bit with this canvas. I’m very pleased with the central circle and how ... Read More
This canvas was added to the Portfolio on December 20, 1990. This is one of those, “Hey, Iʼve been there” paintings. Everyone seems to have been to this place but the location they suggest is always different. The source for this painting, as I recall, was actually between my ears.