Sun Bathers

Sun Bathers  6x6 oil on museum board

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There's a beautiful park near my house that overlooks

the rocky Maltese shore. There is always something interesting

to paint there. I meet there with a friend to paint every week.

It's become a joke with us that whatever I choose to paint

moves almost immediately. I definitely need to

paint faster!

Twins!

Mr. and Ms. French

Birth Announcement!

Check out the French's new twins!

They are so proud:)

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Snoozin'

Snoozin'  6x6 oil on museum board

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My friend Jeni Caurana and I were painting in the

park and hit the jack pot with this guy dozing in the

sunshine with his hands crossed.

 

He woke up, noticed us, and came over to 

have a look.  I asked him what he thought and he said-

"I'm going to go back over and hold my stomach in!"

LOL

 

 

Strollin'

Strollin' 5x7 oil on museum board

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Is this gentleman the quintessentially British chap or what?

Even my British friends say so.

I loved his character as I saw him strolling along the

seafront and he politely posed for me to

snap his photo.

Artistically I was worried that he would look

too stiff in the the painting, being so

proper and everything, but

I think I lost enough edges in the process to

keep it from being too ridged.

What do you think?

Flower Market

Flower Market 6x6 oil on museum board

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These two women I saw at the market in Frankfurt,

Germany were more interesting to me

than the flowers they were buying.

They were a joy to paint!
This painting says
"spring is here"!

Shufflin' Along

Shufflin' Along  5x7 oil on board

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I loved the character of the old fellow

shuffling along the seafront in the Maltese sunshine.

Keep on keeping on! 

Remember that expression? You know

who you are, and we're NOT going

to talk about age any more.

We're as young as we think;)

Enthralled

Enthralled 6x6 oil on museum board

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The warm weather and sunshine has people hanging 

out in parks and on the benches that dot the

seafront in Malta.  It's one

of my favorite spring subjects!

I feel for you guys that still have snow.

April 2013 Newsletter

Fun and Games  Martini Collage

 

Hi Friends, I sent out my April Newsletter this morning.

If you're not signed up and would like to

take a peek to see what my buddy

Robi has been doing, a quote from Cris Rock,

and wonderful things that come in threes-

click here.

 

Thanks to all of you for your support and viewing my art!

 

 

Fresh Sliced Orange

Fresh Sliced Orange 6x6 oil on museum board

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I bought some new colors in preparation for my

upcoming workshop with Ovanes Berberian in France

next month.  Two new ones for me

were cad green and platinum violet.   So I

picked my fresh oranges instead of lemons this

time to work with the color scheme.

I love orange, green, and purple together and lucky for

me it also happens to be a triadic color harmony.

About the purple-  it has a more red bias than what 

I usually use: carbazole violet. I did the

under painting with the platinum violet and you can

see it bleeding through on the bottom left.

I went over it with the carbazole violet

simply because it looked better to me and I liked it.

Do you have a favorite purple? Feel free to share!

All In Video

All In  16 x 20 Oil on Canvas

I made a video progression of this painting today.

Check out the step by step process below:

Thanks for viewing my art!

Fresh Sliced Lemon

Fresh Sliced Lemon 8x8 oil on museum board

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I'm still on my lemon binge. I had so much fun painting the

knife and the lemons, and the shadows, and

the color shifts under the martini glass,

and the reflections in the shaker.

 Why do I procrastinate?!

But I do, just a little on a daily basis.

Maybe it's that haunting feeling I get about finishing

and feeling like the painting should more this or more that.

'Should' is a very bad work I believe

and I'm trying to eliminate it from my mental vocabulary.

What keeps you from the joy of painting?