The underpainting is so important. The interesting part is that what you're painting isn't quite the vision in your head. It is basically blocking in figure ...

It's always exciting to begin a new painting. Solidifying the concept can often take months. This new one combines many of the ideas, figures and settings fr...

Remember the unfinished painting that my solo exhibit at R. Michelson Galleries, The Willing Suspension of Disbelief, was organized around? When the show cam...

My latest exhibit, "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief", opened on April 25 in the big, sunlit upstairs gallery space at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampt...

April 25 - May 15. A solo show highlighting the new painting, "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief", plus a selection of work from the series at R. Michelson...

Sometimes less is more, and that was my thought about all the pink/ alizarin crimson/ cadmium tones in this painting, "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief". ...

I think of spring as a time of renewal, don't you? This painting has been on my wall for quite some time. I want to take it down and start something fresh. A...

When I get to this point in a painting, it's time for me to decide where the boundaries of the finished painting will be. Since the canvas is pinned to the w...

This painting has been fleshing itself out (seriously, I've been working on some of the flesh) and I now have a working title. It's "A Willing Suspension of ...

The sky is still red. In order to create the sky-blue-pink I see in my head, it's important to work on everything that juxtaposes it. That way, I can work b...

I often come back to the same models when I think about a new painting. (Not the birds. I always choose new birds.) After quite some time spent manipulating ...

I started thinking about this painting - actually, dreaming it - last winter, in January. I didn't draw it onto canvas until almost May. Now it's July, and i...

In my last post, I wrote about the raven in this painting. It's been interesting giving personality to seagulls in many of my recent pieces, but ravens turne...

It's time for a breather. I've been working on big projects for the past few years, paintings that can take a year to complete. The most recent was "Sirens",...

Nothing ever goes exactly the way you plan it. It is SUCH a large painting, difficult to measure accurately, and eventually we had to take t

This painting is ready to come off the wall. It looks like it will be about 6 1/2 feet by 7 1/2 feet. Once the final dimensions are determined, I'll order a ...

The light is mysterious in this painting. Perhaps that's because I originally planned a brilliant blue sky. The deep red has a presence

It's been a while since I've posted about this painting, and quite a bit has changed. I'm past the beginning and well into the middle of it. The figures are ...

Monotypes! A show of my monotypes will be on display on the main floor of R. Michelson Galleries, 132 Main Street, in Northampton, MA for the first two weeks...

So busy this summer, hard to find enough studio time. As I wander in and out (one of the best parts of having a studio attached to your home), it gives me ti...