This is a little 6″x8″ I did this morning in downtown Houston. I packed up all my paint supplies and got ready to head out, but by that time it was completely overcast so I did a couple of errands. After two errands, the sky was clear again so I headed downtown to look for […]
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“Patience” 12″x16″ oil on canvas SOLD at the show! I am thrilled that “Patience”, a 12″x16″ oil on linen canvas, was accepted into the American Impressionist Society’s 13th Annual Juried Exhibition! The exhibit will open November 9th in Indianapolis, IN. Below is a still life I entered that was rejected . This year each artist
This portrait painting demo was made while I painted Queen Elizabeth II. I have been working on commissions so I thought it would be fun to paint something just for myself. I’ve been thinking about painting Queen Elizabeth II for a while, probably because she is an iconic figure. The finished painting is 10″x10″ oil
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click on image for a closer view This is a recent commission I painted of a darling 5 year old girl. It’s 24″x36″ oil on linen canvas. Below is a close up of this sweet girls face. I framed it in a 5″ traditional gold frame for the client. Her dress was fun, I pulled
Construction on Peterhof Palace was begun in 1714 by Peter the Great, who was credited with founding St. Petersburg. Peterhof Palace was an outpost for Peter the Great as he travelled to Europe and later served as his Summer Palace. It sits on the Bay of Finland and didn’t seem very summery to me, and
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We spend half of our two week vacation in Moscow. Above is a photo of Red Square, just outside the Kremlin walls. We did tour part of the Kremlin, there are a number of cathedrals within the Kremlin and we also toured a museum full of royal silver, china, clothing, carriages from the 18th century
We visited both the Tretyakov Museum in Moscow and the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, both full of Russian art. Above is the Russian State Museum. This beautiful giant painting is by Ilya Repin. I love how the crowd of people in front of the painting blends into the crowd of people in the
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We just got back from a family vacation to Moscow and St. Petersburg. I’ve downloaded my photos, all 747 of them, and I’m going to make a few posts of the hilights. For me, naturally, the hilights were the art museums! Above is the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg from the River Neva, we took
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