Watercolor Barns

Some watercolor studies from an outing yesterday.

Brogue Barn II 24" x 18" watercolor, 2009


Brogue Barn I 12" x 9" watercolor, 2009

Chels Leaning (Firenze ) - in progress and pulling together

These are the latest version of "Chels Leaning (Firenze)"
42" x 36" acrylic on canvas 2009

The latest version references a discussion from this past Monday (June 22)



"Chels Leaning (Firenze)" 4th stage



"Chels Leaning (Firenze)" 3rd stage

Chels Leaning (Firenze ) - in progress

Chels Leaning (Firenze) - in progress acrylic on canvas 42" x 36" 2009


Chels Leaning (Firenze) II - mixed media on copy paper 24" x 18" 2009


Chels Leaning (Firenze) I - mixed media on photo paper 24" x 18" 2009

Two studies and the beginning of the larger (42" x 36") painting based on a series of photographs from my trip to Italy in 2008. The two smaller studies are Mixed media on paper and the larger piece is acrylic on canvas.

Well, OK then.

"Jess with Stencils" mixed media and spray paint on paper, 30" x 22" 2009


"Jess study" charcoal on paper, 30" x 22" 2009

Jess Knitting - April 2009

Jess Knitting, oil on canvas 42" x 36" 2009
This is probably the last painting of Jess "on the couch" - it is almost time to move to the studio in the barn.

New work

after a few hours work last night... (April 2)



A new painting of Jess that I am working on.

old monKey

I could not resist posting this old monkey piece.

monKeys, acrylic on canvas, 2006 (Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Noel Sloboda)

dabbling with some flowers (you can only take so much winter)

Primrose study II, watercolor, 9" x 12"


Primrose study, watercolor, 9" x 12"


Primrose study IV, watercolor, 9" x 12"


Primroses, acrylic on canvas, 18" x 22" 2009

More Jess on Couch paintings

Jess on Couch V 2009, oil on canvas


Jess on Couch IV 2009, oil on canvas


Jess on Couch III 2008, oil on canvas

Here are a few newer Jess paintings from late 2008 and early 2009 (all oil all of the time)

BAU King Pin

"BAU King Pin" 2008
I have got to find some way to work this into my painting
and maybe add Monkey Zombies.

Portrait of a BAU Artist

"Portrait of a BAU Artist", Montana spray paint on bristol, 8" x 8" 2008
now I need to do one of everybody.

first stage of "Portrait of a BAU Artist"
but it needs a little something

Eve's Coupons

Here is a little fun. Spray paint on paper.
"Eve's Coupons" 24" x 18"


I used a photo that I took in Florence last spring in the Duomo Museum. What shame is coupled with the loss of one's coupons???

Lunch - Bau

Lunch bau, 19" x 13" spray paint/stencil on canvas
-now that the text and font are working a little better, I want to monkey around with the shapes and perhaps enlarge the image or work with more of the figure.



Lunch bau, 19 x 13
trying to select the correct font and size before going into this with color.



Lunch, 17 x 14 2008
Trying to develop this and get something going with text.

Jess on Couch II

Jess on Couch II, 24 x 20, oil on canvas 2008

'gonna see if I can manipulate this a little bit into a stencil image and play with the checker pattern on her dress.

Well I never did get around to changing this painting, and now it has been sold.

Don't Tread On Me and others...an experiment in progress

Engagement (early stages) 17" x 14" November 2008

Lately, I have been thinking about images that are more direct and less personal. Maybe try to remove some of the ambiguity that occurs so often in my painting. Anyway, since I have always relied heavily on strong contrasts and working with shape, and I use letter stencils and hand-drawn stencils in some of my paintings, I thought, "why not?"

I don't know if these stenciled images will be combined into a larger piece or be developed separately. The disruption that occurs with the girl and the swastika is probably too much. The only reason that I used the swastika in the first place was that the girl in the original image looked so Germanic and the whole South African/ Afrikaner, Dutch, diamond industrial complex was just too tempting and too ironic to make the symbol anything else. Maybe it was all of those movies with hot blondes and Nazi uniforms...maybe I can blame it on Mel Brooks. Maybe it reminds me of the young women in my classes with huge engagement rings and their haughty, slightly fascist overtones. A dollar sign would be too obvious and (according to my wife) it isn't that easy to read anyway.

Don't Tread on Me (in progress) 9" x 12" November 2008

Just beginning to goof around and work out some ideas for a new series. The idea of "Don't Tread on Me" has been in my head since the election. I would like to delve a lot deeper into this theme and definitely add at least one or two colors and some text here.