I had a lot of fun painting this iris. Vincent is known for his many sunflower paintings, but when he moved to Saint-Remy to check himself into the asylum, we begin to see more irises and cypresses in his work. Of course, there could be a number of reasons for this: perhaps, irises and cypress […]
Read more "Irises"After tackling his iconic sunflowers, you might be wondering how I choose the Van Gogh paintings to study. Well, I have this very handy resource, a Taschen book that includes ALL of Vincent’s paintings. Of course it includes essays and other academic information, but the fact that it also includes all of Vincent’s paintings in […]
Read more "Wheat Field with Cypresses"In preparation for my submission to the 4th Annual Wine Box Art Show, I decided to work on some preliminary studies. I wanted my wine box to be inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s sunflower paintings, so I knew I had to take a closer look at his work and try my hand at recreating his […]
Read more "Sunflower Study #1"Today I share the final two paintings I created for the 15 Squared Art Show currently on view at The Barefoot Spa in Orlando, FL. Sticking with my pop culture theme, I decided to paint Calcifer from “Howl’s Moving Castle” by Hayao Miyazaki and Baby Groot from “Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2” by James […]
Read more "Opposites Attract"My painting of Dante from the Disney Pixar film “Coco” is currently residing at The Barefoot Spa as part of the 15 Squared Art Show. While he is an older piece, I decided to paint a couple of new feline friends to keep him company. In keeping with my pop culture theme, I painted Jiji […]
Read more "Feline Friends"One might think the anatomy category of the 15 Squared Art Show would be the most challenging for an artist who doesn’t enjoy painting people or portraits and who generally doesn’t care for the figure in art. But this is me we are talking about and while I don’t like painting people so much, I […]
Read more "Anatomy & Sugar Skulls"For the 1970’s category of the 15 Squared Art Show, I considered a few ideas, but settled on my first introduction to pop culture (and The Muppets)… Sesame Street! Sesame Street is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, so honoring this show felt right. However, I didn’t want to paint the more obvious characters. I […]
Read more "The 1970’s"I recently completed a third painting in tribute to artist Yayoi Kusama titled Kusama Dots Yellow. It is currently on view as part of the Visual Fringe art gallery housed within the Orlando Shakespeare Theater. It will remain on view through the rest of the Orlando Fringe, which concludes on Sunday, May 26th. This painting […]
Read more "Kusama Dots Yellow"I am pleased to share that I have three pieces currently on view at Hourglass Brewing in Longwood, FL as part of their Sugar Skull & Luchador Mask Mash Up Art Show! Artists were challenged to create artwork “mashing up” sugar skulls and luchador masks with pop culture references. The results were truly magnificent and […]
Read more "Sugar Skulls & Luchador Masks"I am seeing “Avengers: Endgame” later this evening so it seems appropriate to post this painting inspired by the recent film, “Captain Marvel.” “Captain Marvel” is easily one of my top 5 MCU films for more reasons than I can list in a blog post. Beyond its killer 90’s soundtrack and pop culture references (including […]
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