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. [...]
My previous blog post was about the dog I recently painted. He’s a great guy, so I wanted to tell the world about him. Now I’d like to focus on [...]
Oliver will be 7 years old this month. 6 years and 11 months ago, old Ollie weighed less than a pound. He hadn’t even had a name yet. That’s when [...]
I present to you the latest Lila and Nina collaboration. This is an acrylic painting on a 22″ x 54″ canvas. Nina has titled it Rainbow Love. I try not [...]
I celebrated my 39th birthday a little over a week ago. When you get to this age, if you are still receiving birthday presents, many of them emerge upon request. [...]
Nadya works. She loves her job. She is very good at it. Nadya finds love. She gets married. She has children. Nadya is growing a family. She still works. It [...]
