Events

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on October 13, 2025. Measuring 18″ x 24″, “Purple Rain” is an experiment with acrylic metallic paint, a new line of pigments recently introduced to the marketplace. Interesting stuff. Does not photograph all that well, and I think I have to come up ... Read More

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on October 15, 2025. An experiment with metallic paints and one palette knife – my first time using them both.

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on October 18, 2025. This 18″ x 24″ canvas features an interesting background for a cross prepared with metallic silver and gold.

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on October 19, 2000. Every once in a while elements of several photos can be combined to create an interesting landscape. Such is the case with this painting. I especially enjoyed working with the light and shadows in this piece and the details ... Read More

These pieces were added to the Portfolio on October 24, 2025. Another of my doodles (from a personal sketchbook that seems inexhaustible) now committed to canvas, this work is unsigned on the face so as to allow it to be hung in one of four different orientations.

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on November 16, 2025. This 20″ x 16″ piece – a work “from the drawing board to the canvas” – features advanced weaponry and a tongue-in-cheek approach to current events.

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on November 27, 2025. Truth be told, I had a good bit of brick-colored paint left over from the painting of “Abby” and, well, I… painted a brick. But Grace came by the studio and immediately named the canvas “Cody’s Toy”. As you ... Read More

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on November 29, 2025. My fifth commission and second dual portrait, “Dan & Terry” depicts a father and son on a recent, and successful, fishing trip. The client wrote, “Joe! Opening your package was exciting! You captured our joy being together that day ... Read More

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on November 13, 2005. My third commission was a gift that was opened on Christmas morning 2005. Working from just two 4” x 6” photos taken one summer afternoon, I was asked to create a nighttime wintry view and accurately depict the superb ... Read More

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on November 29, 2025. My first landscape in a while, and at 36″ x 24″ it’s no small canvas. I like how the trees and the sky turned out and my very first mountain range seems to work, too.

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on December 20, 2025. Over 50 years ago, a friend provided me with a photo and a challenge to “Hey, paint this”. Upon recently finding the photo, I could not recall from where the image was located, but my best friend told me ... Read More

This canvas was added to the Portfolio on December 24, 2025. Merry Christmas Eve! Here’s a 24″ x 20″ canvas where I first learned that one can create a moon using the bottom of a plastic medicine cup, and a starry background by flicking paint from a toothbrush.