 Oil painting is by far my most favorite medium to work in. You can leave your work for hours and the painting is still wet and workable, or you can use a fast-drying linsead oil for a quicker dry time. Besides drawings, oils were my first works. The painting to the left titled "The Dead Tree" was my first large canvas at 36"x48". It was (as many of my paintings) taken from a pencil sketch of a dream I had. I was running through a dark forest away from something chasing me and was stopped by the tree. I looked up, and as far as I could see were dead branches. To your best shot at the one Freud. |
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Day in the Park 1979 : These next two paintings are related. The first is of my ex-wife and myself at the time we were married and she was expecting our child. The unicorn represented the spirit of our unborn son.The expression on my face is looking to the future, where I saw a life without them. |
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Man Cry 1982 : As you may have guessed, this was after we were divorced. It's of me, in the same park, chasing after what I had lost. In the lower right you can just see the head of the unicorn running away. |
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Home by The Sea 1984:Partially inspired by a Phil Collins song of the same title, this was a combination, real life and fantasy painting. The woman in the painting a combination of two sisters I knew at the time, Karen and MIchelle. The fantasy part was my wanting to live by the ocean, a dream that would later come true. I was always vacationing at the beach, so I thought one day, perhaps I should live there. |
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Lé Menu 1984: This was the first of many paintings that I would do in a "blue" theme. The model is also featured in several of my pastels and drawings. |
