Truth/Trump

Autumn

Parc de Saint-Cloud

I think this is one of my best photos from the time we lived in Paris.

Splash

My daughter in the Mediterranean.

50 YEARS AGO

Acrylic on Paper, 15"H x 11"W

Like many who were alive on November 22, 1963, I can still remember where I was when I heard the report that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. I was at my first job out of college as a designer for a company in Alexandria, Virginia. Someone ran into the design studio with the news. Not much work got done that afternoon as we sat by the radio, stunned and grief-stricken. My first-time vote in a presidential election was for Kennedy. I went to his inauguration in January, 1961, and heard his famous "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." He created a real sense of renewal and optimism, especially among younger citizens. President Kennedy was a strong proponent of world peace. He initiated the Peace Corp, negotiated a limited nuclear test ban treaty with the USSR and UK, forged policies linking the US and Israel, and reinforced US commitment to West Germany. He also developed economic and social reforms, the "New Frontier,"  and promoted civil rights legislation and space exploration. Certainly there were many tragedies, problems, and challenges in his life and administration, but those were balanced to some extent by the intelligence, wit, and glamour that he and Jacqueline Kennedy brought to the White House. What might have been....

Fishing the Dordogne

Limeuil, France

Shutter

Tremolat, France

Barn Window

Plainfield, Vermont

Red Window

Ireland

Porthole

Ireland

One Eyed Cat

Ireland

Tattoo

Oil on Canvas, 12"H x 9"W

At one time I had a studio in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, DC. 

It's a very vibrant area with an active street life and interesting shops and restaurants. A lot of the conversations I would overhear, while walking around, were in Spanish. The studio was small but it had really nice light. Occasionally I'd hire a model for portrait or figure drawings and paintings. 

Madonna

I love the worn surface, colors, and textures of this wall in France.

Maplewood

I took this photo with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye (I wish I still had it) when I was 16. 

This is my family house in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Happy Birthday Sheila!

In honor of my wife's birthday, I post this photograph of her, 

taken (by someone else) before we met.

Garden Wall #8

Mixed Media on Paper, 15"H x 11"W

Several others in this series are now in the exhibition Artists of Woodley Park at the Stanford Gallery in Washington DC.

Door with Flag

Baltimore, Maryland

Garden Wall #2

Mixed Media on Paper, 15"H x 11"W
Several others in this series are now in the exhibition Artists of Woodley Park at the Stanford Gallery in Washington DC.

Anne

From a sketchbook.

Window with TV

Ennistymon, Ireland

Devin

Oil on Panel, 12"H X 9"W 

Mt Fuji-Four Views

Japan

Photographs of Mt Fuji taken from a train.

Lucky

Montana

George Twice

 Color Pencil, 15"H x 22"W

Sometimes, at the Open Drawing sessions, I find the model's face more interesting than the whole figure. When this is the case I focus on the head. The fact that I don't have any control over the pose or the lighting adds to the challenge. In this drawing I really pushed the intensity of the colors and values.

Red Moped

Gubbio, Italy

René -Two Minute Poses

Pen & Ink with Wash, 15"H x 22"W 

At the Open Drawing sessions (see previous post), I usually use a pen and ink with wash for the shorter poses, and I make a number of sketches on a single sheet of paper. Each of the figure studies in this drawing was done in two minutes.