Holiday Grotesques

Groundhog Day





Valentine's Day





Easter





Earth Day





Independence Day





Halloween





Veteran's Day






Thanksgiving





Christmas





New Year's Eve

All paintings are 44"x 36", Oil on Canvas

Not at Home

Here's a selection of landscape paintings and sketches done while travelling

Sanibel Island, Gouaches, 2008








Sanibel Island, pastel and ink on paper, 2002, 12"x 18"


"Fishing the Mississippi" 2002, pastel on paper, 12"x18"


"Roscoe Prarie" 2002, Nature Conservancy Preserve (you can see where they took down the barbed wire)


"Culvert, Martha's Vineyard" 1998, pastel on paper, 24"x 36"

Cherry Blossoms

Every Spring I like to paint the Cherry Blossoms in Forest Lawn Cemetery

2005, 32"x24" oil on linen


2006, 24"x12" oil on canvas


2006, 16"x32" oil on canvas


2007 (After the "October Storm") 24"x28" oil on canvas

Buffalo Landscapes

Here's a selection of landscapes painted around Buffalo, NY in the past few years. These first two were done in Chestnut Ridge Park. Painting these from life is a good excuse to hike into the woods and stay in one place for a while. Left: 2006, 84"x12" oil on canvas, Below: 2006, 12"x24" oil on canvas



"Lake Erie" 2006, 34"x50" oil on canvas

The view out my current studio window "Potomac Avenue"2006, 16"x9" oil on canvas


This painting of Silver Maples was the view outside my studio on Essex street.
2005, 17"x17" oil on board


I go to Forest Lawn Cemetery too early for the Cherry Blossoms "Cemetery Birches" 2005, 16"x16"


Westminister Presbyterian, 2006, oil pastel on paper


Forest Lawn Cemetery, 2006, oil pastel on paper


"Sycamore Truncks, Delaware Park" 2006, 13"x17" oil pastel on paper
"Maple with Lichen" 2003, 28"x14" oil on board



These last few pastels are from the yard or porch of 134 Mariner Street, around 2000-2001, 12"x18"

Portraits

"Portrait of Joan" 2003, 36"x30" oil on linen

“After Joan” 2003, 53”x 37” oil on linen

"Katie and Diego" 2005, 48"x28" oil on canvas

"Self-Portrait" 2002, 48"x34" oil on canvas

"Self-Portrait Playing Parcheesi" 2005, 38"x12" oil on canvas

May 2007 Exhibition at Rochester Contemporary

Katie and Diego



"Season 5" 2005, 51"x36" oil on linen


"Season 5.2" 2005, 51"x36" oil on canvas





The following groups of small (6"x4") Ipod paintings are painted on plaster casts of a carved wood form (2007)







Body For Ray



Vista (Inspired by Owen Harvey's "Votives")



Network



Enchanted Forest



Monumental Triptych





"Bowling Alley" 2007, 38"x22"x96" paint on wood(forest stewardship council certified),clay, mixed materials



"Outside" 2007, 44"x23" oil on canvas