0.2 · June 2014
Untitled 0.2
12×16 · Oil on canvas
Placed · 3 images
Placed · 3 images
This is my official "first painting". I knew I wanted to paint on canvas paper and ultimately frame it.…
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0.9 · June 2014
Untitled 0.9
16×20 · Oil on glass
Available · 7 images
Available · 7 images
After working on my first oil on glass painting, I was really inspired to plan and begin another.…
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0.3 · June 2014
Untitled 0.3
12×16 · Oil on canvas
Personal collection · 4 images
Personal collection · 4 images
I'm drawn to yellow in paintings. It is a strong color with lots of connection to life and growth.…
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0.4 · June 2014
Untitled 0.4
12×16 · Oil on canvas
Personal collection · 4 images
Personal collection · 4 images
I was experimenting with painting on canvas paper with bold color backgrounds. I was interested in color values and with grey and brown.…
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0.5 · June 2014
Untitled 0.5
12×16 · Oil on canvas
Placed · 8 images
Placed · 8 images
This piece was a natural color extension from Untitled 0.4 . As a technology freak, I was on the lookout for a simple way to capture some colors when…
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0.6 · June 2014
Untitled 0.6
12×16 · Oil on canvas
Placed · 6 images
Placed · 6 images
My daughter is wonderfully talented and very creative. She is loving that I'm painting and was really attracted to the style of 0.4 and 0.5 .…
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0.7 · June 2014
Untitled 0.7
12×16 · Oil on canvas
Placed · 5 images
Placed · 5 images
After painting for my daughter , it only took a short amount of time before my son wanted a piece for himself.…
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0.8 · June 2014
Untitled 0.8
16×20 · Oil on glass
Available · 6 images
Available · 6 images
I was framing a few of the pieces I had completed in my garage one weekend afternoon. I was working with some nice looking black frames I had found at…
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0.11 · June 2014
Untitled 0.11
12×16 · Oil on canvas
Available · 8 images
Available · 8 images
This piece began as a way to experiment with more warm colors vs. the cools I've been using so far.…
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0.13 · June 2014
Untitled 0.13
12×16 · Oil on mounted canvas
Available · 12 images
Available · 12 images
Today I worked on 2 companion pieces focusing on: Color. Movement.…
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0.14 · July 2014
Untitled 0.14
12×16 · Oil on mounted canvas
Available · 6 images
Available · 6 images
I had a wonderful conversation tonight with an amazing friend and his family. The evening turned into a dinner and discussion about life, passions, ch…
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0.15 · July 2014
Untitled 0.15
24×36 · Oil on canvas
Placed · 8 images
Placed · 8 images
Interested in larger format canvases. Tonight I began on a 24x36 canvas.…
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0.16 · July 2014
Untitled 0.16
24×36 · Oil on canvas
Available · 7 images
Available · 7 images
I'm really enjoying the larger format canvas. The work on Untitled 0.15 really opened up some thoughts and freedoms to work through a composition.…
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0.17 · July 2014
Untitled 0.17
30×40 · Oil on canvas
Commissioned · 6 images
Commissioned · 6 images
My daughter Peyton simply amazes me.…
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5.0 · July 2014
The Grief Series
12×16 · Oil on mounted canvas
Personal collection · 16 images
Personal collection · 16 images
...The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. ( Robert Motherwell ) I began Reading Abstract Expressionism - Context and Critique a few…
The five stages
0.10 · July 2014
Untitled 0.10
12×16 · Oil on canvas
Commissioned · 6 images
Commissioned · 6 images
My friends Matt and Beth were drawn to the "triplet" paintings I've done, especially the colors of Untitled 0.2 .…
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0.18 · July 2014
Untitled 0.18
12×16 · Oil on mounted canvas
Personal collection · 11 images
Personal collection · 11 images
The whole of a man's experience becomes his mode, and in that sense it can be said that all of art is a portrait of an idea - Mark Rothko (1943) Finis…
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0.1 · July 2014
Untitled 0.1
16×20 · Oil on canvas
Commissioned · 8 images
Commissioned · 8 images
It began with some instant messages on Facebook.…
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0.19 · August 2014
Untitled 0.19
12×16 · Oil on mounted canvas
Placed · 6 images
Placed · 6 images
To us, art is an adventure into an unknown world... of the imagination {which} is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense...…
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0.20 · August 2014
Untitled 0.20
12×16 · Oil on mounted canvas
Placed · 8 images
Placed · 8 images
The question is how to name what as yet has been unnamed... Robert Motherwell, Modern Artists in America (1951) This piece began as tribute.…
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0.21 · August 2014
Untitled 0.21
12×16 · Oil on mounted canvas
Available · 4 images
Available · 4 images
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way - not his way. Letter to the Editor.…
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0.22 · August 2014
Untitled 0.22
30×48 · Oil on canvas
Commissioned · 5 images
Commissioned · 5 images
The painting itself is a "moment" in the adulterated mixture of his life - whether "moment" means, in one case, the actual minutes taken up with spott…
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0.23 · August 2014
Untitled 0.23
30×48 · Oil on canvas
Available · 5 images
Available · 5 images
The look of my figures is abstract, and to the spectator they may not appear to be figures at all. They are the expression, in abstract terms, of emot…
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0.24 · August 2014
Untitled 0.24
36×48 · Oil on canvas
Commissioned · 7 images
Commissioned · 7 images
The essence of these paintings is motion, the force that brings light out of dark and substance out of void, the ultimate drama. Arts Magazine, Septem…
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0.26 · August 2014
Untitled 0.26
48×60 · Oil on canvas
Placed · 4 images
Placed · 4 images
I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom...People who weep before my pictures are having the same religious exp…
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0.25 · October 2014
Untitled 0.25
48×72 · Oil on canvas
Available · 7 images
Available · 7 images
We are all wrapped up in life, in human feelings; we cannot, and we should not, desire to get away from our feelings. - Robert Henri This is the large…
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0.27 · October 2014
Untitled 0.27
48×60 · Oil on canvas
Available · 7 images
Available · 7 images
For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself. He must have been capable of intense feeling, and capable of profound…
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0.28 · October 2014
Untitled 0.28
48×60 · Oil on canvas
Available · 4 images
Available · 4 images
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. - Robert Henri Emotions are powerful and having multiple emotional responses to a situation can b…
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0.29 · October 2014
Untitled 0.29
48×60 · Oil on canvas
Available · 6 images
Available · 6 images
I am not interested in color for color’s sake and light for light’s sake. I am interested in them as means of expression.…
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0.30 · October 2014
Untitled 0.30
48×48 · Oil on canvas
Available · 5 images
Available · 5 images
For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself. He must have been capable of intense feeling, and capable of profound…
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0.31 · October 2014
Untitled 0.31
48×48 · Oil on canvas
Available · 5 images
Available · 5 images
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness.…
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0.32 · October 2014
Untitled 0.32
48×48 · Oil on canvas
Available · 5 images
Available · 5 images
No possible set of notes can explain our paintings. Their explanation must come out of a consummated experience between picture and onlooker.…
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0.33 · October 2014
Untitled 0.33
48×48 · Oil on canvas
Placed · 3 images
Placed · 3 images
The modern painter is not inspired by anything visible, but only by something he hasn't seen yet... In short, he begins with nothingness.…
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0.34 · October 2014
Untitled 0.34
48×48 · Oil on canvas
Placed · 3 images
Placed · 3 images
...painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself - Robert Motherwell (1944) Working with only primary colors opens up some wonderful way…
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0.35 · October 2014
Untitled 0.35
48×48 · Oil on canvas
Available · 3 images
Available · 3 images
I wanted to explore different sizes of Untitled 0.26 . Both 0.35 and 0.36 are 48x48.…
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0.36 · October 2014
Untitled 0.36
48×48 · Oil on canvas
Available · 2 images
Available · 2 images
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist - Harold Rosenburg (1949) I continue to explore the 48x48 size from the comp…
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0.38 · October 2014
Untitled 0.38
36×36 · Oil on canvas
Commissioned · 4 images
Commissioned · 4 images
This piece is an adaptation of Untitled 0.36 , 0.35 and 0.26 . She loved this style and wanted one in a smaller size for a very specific wall.…
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0.37 · October 2014
Untitled 0.37
48×60 · Oil on canvas
Commissioned · 7 images
Commissioned · 7 images
This commissioned work was a joy to create.…
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0.40 · October 2014
Untitled 0.40
48×96 · Oil on canvas
Available · 3 images
Available · 3 images
Throughout the whole canvas you should think of the effect of the big masses of color in their relation to each other. In a good canvas these big mass…
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0.41 · October 2014
Untitled 0.41
24×48 · Oil on canvas
Available · 4 images
Available · 4 images
The artist must have the emotional side first, the primal cause of his being an artist, but he must also have an excellent mind, which he must command…
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