Poppies were the idea for this painting in a little girl’s room. She’s a lovely little girl, and it’s a pretty little nursery, so I knew I wasn’t going to [...]
Trash. It’s everywhere. So why not enjoy it? For the past 7 years that’s exactly what I’ve been doing… Here a lonely, wind-blown 8 of clubs, stuck under a bush, [...]
I prefer standing to sitting. Anyone that has been anywhere with me knows that. I don’t care about chairs. Unless it’s a chairlift. I also get cold easily. And not [...]
This is Tiger. Tiger is near-and-dear to someone very near-and-dear to me. Tiger is mischievous. He never met a glass of water he didn’t tip over, tree he wouldn’t climb, [...]
But that was last month. No my friend. I’m saying Happy Lunar New Year! Happy Year of the Tiger! While I have no affiliation to any culture that celebrates (any [...]
The b-sides are paintings that I create with whatever paint is left on the palette from my most recent commission. The interesting aspect is that the two paintings share an [...]
There are two things about working on this painting that brought me a lot of joy. The first thing was painting the ocean. I love the ocean. Don’t tell my [...]
One Monday evening, back in the fall of 1998, after a supper of Gram’s spaghetti with crockpot meat sauce (the kind with the spicy Italian sausage) and Italian bread with [...]
Life is unbelievably busy. It was just spring, but it’s summer already. The last snow we had felt like it happened last week. Am I even going to get to [...]
Raise your hand if your best memories are from the Jersey Shore. Depending on how many of my old friends and family are reading this, that may be a large [...]
That’s right. I’m forty now. I like to spell out the word. It looks way cooler than 40. So far, forty feels pretty good. I like it better than 30, [...]
John John has a new piece of art in his bedroom. This astronaut mosaic was handmade by Happy (his grandma) and some of our local family members. My mom is [...]
Yes. You. Have you ever wanted to ask me to create a painting especially for you? Have you ever thought you’d like to give someone else a painting (made by [...]
To create Art for the purpose of invoking the inner self; this is why I paint, this is why I paint landscapes, and this is certainly why I paint from [...]
I know I speak for every parent (in the history of parenthood) when I say I was a completely different person before I became a parent. I had different hair. [...]