Night & Day… a diptych

March 5, 2014

aka Center City #4 & 6, pair of oil paintings on the wood-panel backs of two bureau drawers, 17″ x 7″ x 6″ • collection of the artist $ Over the years I’ve collected many pieces of furniture, mirrors, lighting, assorted accessories and bric-a-brac of all kinds from the streets, including surfaces/substrates to paint on. […]

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Center City #3

March 4, 2014

aka North by NorthWest #3, oil on wood panel • framed in recycled bureau drawer 17″ x 12″ x 2″ • collection of the artist $ 2011. Early that Spring I tried my hand at another view of Center City, my third, using a wash of thin pigment over unprimed panel, allowing the natural color […]

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Center City Skyline #2

March 3, 2014

aka The Obelisk, the Needles and the Monolith, aka North by NorthWest #2, oil on panel, 24″ x 24″ • framed in window sash, 28″ x 28″ • collection of the artist $ September, late summer shortly before the equinox, I was working in the studio on the third floor, the doors to the roof […]

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Small Worlds at the Plastic Club

March 2, 2014

The Plastic Club, 247 South Camac St. Philadelphia, presents their annual Small Worlds show from March 2-27, 2014. Opening Reception: Sunday March 2, 2-5 pm. A River Runs Through It #5, aka Northern Lights Magic, acrylic on panel, 12″ x 12″, framed 13″ x 13″ • collection of the artist, $. My entry for this […]

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since the question was asked…

March 1, 2014

My sister-in-law in Maine, Georgianna, whose question a couple days ago regarding my neighbors sparked a new way of seeing and photographing the view looking north toward the city, asked yesterday if I have a picture of the front of my house. Indeed I do, one taken a couple years ago at night, the best […]

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Center City: as seen by the Hand of the Artist

February 28, 2014

Center City Skyline #1, oil on board, 20″ x 9″ • collection of the artist  $ Since I’ve now shown over 20 photos of the view looking North by NorthWest from my 3rd floor studio, I figure it’s time to show the paintings which that same view have inspired. There are only ten of them […]

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What a Difference a Day Makes…

February 27, 2014

digital photo taken at 5:31 p.m. Thursday 2.27.14

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Serendipity and the View Due North

February 27, 2014

digital photograph taken with a Nikon CoolPix L100 camera, 2.26.14 Serendipity strikes again. This morning I received an email from my sister-in-law in Maine asking if I knew my neighbors who live in the houses that have appeared in my photos lately. Deciding to illustrate my reply with a photo describing who I knew and […]

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As You Like It: where IT all began…

February 24, 2014

1959 • 2 drawings – 1 in watercolor, 1 in colored pencil – on 8.5″ x 11″ onion skin paper To Begin at the Beginning: IT must have been the A+. I was finishing up freshman year at Thornton Academy in Saco, Maine, which I attended after graduating eighth grade from Dayton Consolidated School in a […]

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Still Smilin’ After All These Years…

February 23, 2014

As part of my ongoing celebration of this years reawakening of ‘the inner child’ I think it’s time to put up this image – a collage composed of snapshots taken during my  childhood, starting around age three, and including a couple school portraits from as late as third and fourth grades. I composed the piece a decade […]

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Greetings from the ValentineMan

February 18, 2014

pencil and acrylic on watercolor paper, 14″ x 11″ • collection of the artist 2013: Early in February while looking through some old sketches on paper, I discovered one from the late 70s with an unfinished pencil sketch of a figure on both sides of an 11″ x 14″ sheet of heavy weight watercolor paper, […]

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The Story of Romance

February 14, 2014

a series of four drawings created in 1991, using colored pencil on black mounting board, each 8″ x 10″ 1. LipBoat #2, aka Sailing with the Winged Heart in the Realm of the Senses, aka On the Good Ship Lollipop, in the collection of Eric German.         2. Rapture, aka Passion with […]

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Down the Red River

February 4, 2014

oil on canvas,  34″ x 22″ • 1984 • in the collection of Nancy Wyseman How’s this for a tale of interesting synchronicity? or is it serendipity? or just plain coincidence? Last Saturday, Nancy Wyseman, who owns Down the Red River, today’s featured painting, called to talk, and let me know how much she has […]

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Sun Worshippers by the Mississippi

February 2, 2014

acrylic on panel, 12″ x 20.5″ • framed in umber-stained maple, 17″ x 25.5″ • in the collection of Betsy Alexander and Burnell Yow! February 2, 2104: The Plastic Club, 247 Camac Street •  Travel and Transport show opening reception 2–5 pm; show runs through Feb 20. My entry in the Plastic Club’s second show of the […]

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The Creed of the Magi

February 1, 2014

pen and ink drawing on paper, 9″ x 9″ • framed, 21″ x 21″ • see below for picture of custom-signed poster on light card stock, 11″ x 14″ • $12 postpaid Perhaps I should have saved this one for next Advent, but ultimately there’s no time like the present. The traditionally-sourced poetry of The […]

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