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| Eric 11x6 oil This is an early portrait, 1981, when I was first attempting to learn how to paint portraits. George Van Hook and I shared a studio in Arcata, Ca. and we had at least two models coming into the studio each day. It was a great time and really helped me get my chops up. I have posted several portraits from over the years. There are some gaps as I don't have digital images of a lot of work. |
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| Helen Botino, oil detail 1989 |
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| Bill McBride oil 8x6 1995 |
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| A Visitor, watercolor 14x11 2002 |
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| Self-Portrait, oil 2007 10x10 |
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| Self-Portrait, Oil 12x9 2010 |
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| Ken, watercolor 14x11 2008 |
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| Edward, oil 54x48 2009 |
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| Self-Portrait, oil 68x48 2008 |
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| Mike Galarda, oil 72x48 1996 |
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| Self-Portrait, oil 16x12 2011 I have a dual personality when it comes to painting and I often question my motives for what I paint. Although I consider myself a traditional painter, I respond to abstract paintings and expressionist paintings, as well as realism. I find much contemporary realism to entrenched in 19th century painting, and many painters rather dogmatic in their anti 20th century view of modern and contemporary art. Every so often I need to step outside my own boundaries and see where the work goes. I don't make it happen, it just does. Maybe it's because I'm approaching 60 that I have painted five self-portraits this year. I have posted three recent self-portraits that have been very exciting to paint and come from my other side. |
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| My Father, oil 20x16 2009 |
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| Paul Rickard, watercolor 14x11 2010 |
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| Profile Self-Portrait, oil 16x12 2011 This started with a lot of palette scrapings and took off from there. It's hard to show all the texture in a photo. |
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| Self-Portrait, oil 20x18 2011 |
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| Self-Portrait, Outside Noise oil, 2011 16x12 |
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| Healing Room, detail 2007 This is a detail of the painting I did of Terry when she was recovering from the terrible fall she had in 2007. |
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| Terry, oil 2001 detail |
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| Painting, Terry's Studio 2002 60x54 |
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| The Last Song, oil 1993 22x17 |
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| The Pirate, oil 1993 54x48 |
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| Jazz, pastel on cement sidewalk 2011 This was drawn on the sidewalk of the Arcata Plaza for the North Coast Children's Services fundraiser. It from an old black and white photo of Billie Holiday, Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. It was a fun piece to do, but back breaking and tough to draw on the rough surface of the sidewalk. |
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ReplyDeleteReally like the expressionist self-portraits.
Missy
A real pleasure to see the early work and also your 'other side' The Jazz pastel on cement is wonderful and I can only imagine the difficulty of such a feat.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the heads up, love seeing your beautiful,and highly sensitive portrait work.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting these. They are an inspiration. I am impressed by the skill you bring to such a range of styles.
ReplyDeleteA lot of these pieces have an almost atmospheric quality to them. I guess it must be from working under natural light. Anyway, I like the effect!
ReplyDeleteThe head and shoulders self portrait with the caption: Self-Portrait, oil 20x18 2011 Gazes back to you in a similar introspective way to portraits I have seen by Rembrandt.
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