"When we are born we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools."

The Laughing Boy -

A painting by Frans Hals.

I really like the way he left his strokes very loose and spontaneous. I love the way he captured the spirit of the little boy and did not try to pretty him up.

I've been busy with some portraiture commissions. It's been great getting to know the people I'm painting and becoming part of their lives, if only for a while. It's been very enlightening to meet so many diverse people.

It's been a great year, I hope yours has been great too. Here's to an even brighter future!

LUCAS

Oil on art panel

This is a contemporary portrait commission I just finished. 

I've been very busy this summer. I haven't had much time for the Internet. I have been working on 6 commissioned portraits and am about to add one more. I have finished 4 of them. Also I have been working on my photography and plan to buy a new Nikon, I'm thinking about opening up a photography studio with a friend of mine as a side business. Maybe I will have some time after my commissions are finished. I want to specialize in fine art photography along the lines of Edward Steichen. I have many great ideas for unusual  portraits and lighting. The portrait above is one I took of a very dear friend of mine, it is an example of the style of photography I enjoy creating.

Little Red Riding Hood

Oil on masonite panel

24 x 18 inches

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Here is the beginning of an almost life size painting of Jesus. It will be his entire body, after he is beaten and crowned with thorns. He will be slumping and you will see the crown of thorns, the wounds on his face and body and his cloak will be cardinal red. I've photographed the entire piece but don't want to give it all away yet. So here is part of the torso and legs. Again this is the beginning stage, just to get the basics down. Also my "Leper" is coming along very well, I'm very pleased with it. I have a few more details to add and then I will be done, hopefully by the end of June.

GOLGOTHA

Acrylic on canvas

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Teach These Souls To Fly

Artist: William Blake

LITTLE RED

Little Red

5 x 7 inch
Oil on canvas

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It must be this ecclesiastical rain that drives me into such a melancholia. Walking relaxes me and eventhough it's raining I'll walk this afternoon, and maybe tonight because, I have found, increasingly as time goes on, or around, or backwards, or stays still as my brain races, my heart absorbs and expels and my arteries harden that the problems of physical life, of social contact, of daily posturing and keeping my chin up, the ordinary moments of walking up a city street, opening doors or letters, saying hello to friends or stangers, looking out of windows, making telephone calls, are inexplicably made more tolerable by keeping in motion one foot in front of the other, one step at a time and hearing my footsteps hit the ground.

LITTLE LAMBS WHO MADE THEE?

Oil on canvas

5 x 8 1/2 inches

Inspired by the poem "Little Lamb Who Made Thee" by William Blake

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Let me introduce you to Escif. Escif is a Spaniard street artist, not yet well known here in the USA. He just released his first book called Muros Y Paredes. This is my favorite artwork of his. I like where he's coming from being that he's Spanish and making a statement about the cruelty and injustice of bull fighting.

DIEGO VELAZQUEZ

Charcoal study

on paper/ framed

5 x 7 inch/ frame 7 x 9 inch

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Mixed Media

8 x 6 stretched canvas






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VINCENT VAN GOGH

VINCENT VAN GOGH

14 x 18 inches

Oil on canvas panel

This statue is supposed to be the actual likeness of Joan Of Arc. The artist created this statue after meeting Joan Of Arc and wanted to preserve it for history. The identity of this statue was hidden by giving it another name because the artist knew that it would be destroyed if it were revealed to be the actual bust of Joan of Arc. It survived this long under another name. The Joan of Arc collector that showed this picture to me, told me the entire history behind this statue and where it is now, but I can't remember all the details. When I get the info again, I will post it here. I am fascinated by it. I have painted portraits of Joan Of Arc many times and am excited to know that this is what she may have actually looked like.

YOUNG REMBRANDT ~

8 x 10 inch Oil on canvas

Small study of Remembrandt as a young man.

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GOLGOTHA
20 x 20 acrylic on canvas
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I Am The Rose Of Sharon
9x12 on art panel

Salzburg Cathedral
17th century baroque cathedral in the city of Salzburg, and the site of Mozart's baptism.