Recent Work - 4.5.2011

Another Blustery Day
Original 18" x 24" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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Summer Aspens
Original 24" x 36" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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Apple Tree
Original 16" x 20" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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Birds on Wires
Original 18" x 24" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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Fauve Landscape
Original 18" x 24" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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Fall on Young America Road
Original 16" x 20" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

New Paintings 02.11.2010

Red Trees (Commission)
48" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Two 24" x 36" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Red Poppies on Blue (Commission)
Original 4" x 6" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Abstract Spring Floral (Commission)
Original 48" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Two 24" x 30" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Still Life with Daisy Bouquet and Red Vase VII
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Small Town in Fauve with Cows and Sheep
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

This week's work includes new commissions as well as two new paintings I'm selling on my sales venues. All are based upon my signature landscape, still life, and floral compositions.

Quote of the Day
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Fauve Farm Commission

Fauve Farm Commission
Original 40" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

My patron requested a 40" square edition of my Fauve Farm composition, which is always a pleasure for me to paint.

Quote of the Day
"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

Joseph Campbell

New Commissions - 12.12.09

Fauve Farm
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Asparagus
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

These paintings are commissions I recently completed for my patrons. Many of my commission orders are selected from compositions from my web site portfolio.

Quote of the Day
"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."

Thich Nhat Hanh

New Paintings 11.11.09

Autumn Path Near the St. Lawrence
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Small Town in Fauve IX with Cows
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

My newest work includes two paintings based on previous editions of my Autumn Path and Small Town in Fauve series. I have commissions that I will share with my readers in the next day or so.

Thanks to the men and women in our nation's armed forces for their service on this Veteran's Day.

Quote of the Day
"According to the Buddha's teachings, the most basic condition for happiness is freedom. Here we do not mean political freedom, but freedom from the mental formations of anger, despair, jealousy and delusion. These mental formations are described by the Buddha as poisons. As long as these poisons are still in our heart, happiness can not be possible."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Fauve Village Commission

Fauve Village Commission
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

This painting is a commission requested from my Fauve Village series. The other paintings in this series were done as single-canvas and triptych pieces.

Quote of the Day
"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." --Thomas S. Szasz

Today's Paintings 6.4.09

Fauve Farm VII
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Oriental Blossoms XI
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

I've spent the past couple of days working on commissions and needed to take a break from that to paint something to list on my sales venues. Today's work includes the latest editions in the Fauve Farm and Oriental Blossoms series. One of my commissions is a fauve piece as well, which I will post when it's finished. Sales have picked up a bit this past week, which is wonderful, and the commission work keeps trickling in as well. Thank you patrons!!

Quote of the Day
"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance." --Virgil

Alaska Commission Update - 2/25/09

Alaska in Early Fall
Original 60" x 60" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics

Here's the latest photo of my Alaska commission. I still have some work to do on it, but it's coming along nicely. My publisher is happy, so that makes me happy too. I hope to finish it up tomorrow, unless he asks for changes.

I need to get busy. I'm working on a painting to list tonight on my sales venues. I'll post an image of that later on.

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Fauve Landscape IV
Original 22" x 28" x 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

This is a new composition in the Fauve Landscape series. The Fauvists were noted for their use of bright colors. The most notable of the Fauvists was Henri Matisse.

Quote of the day: "To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul." --Mahatma Gandhi

Word of the day: Fauve

Fauve Farm VI

Original 8" x 10" x 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylic paints on gallery-wrapped canvas

The paintings of the Fauves were characterised by seemingly wild brush work and strident colours, while their subject matter had a high degree of simplification and abstraction. Fauvism can be classified as an extreme development of Van Gogh's Post-Impressionism fused with the pointillism of Seurat and other Neo-Impressionist painters, in particular Paul Signac. Other key influences were Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin. The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain. (Wikipedia)

Matisse is one of my favorite artists of the last century. The boldness of his color choices and the seeming simplicity of his compositions were a major draw for me when I was an art student.

I love the Fauve style of painting because it allows me to use bold, bright colors--and I love to play with color.