A WALK IN MY OWN LANDSCAPE

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Faber-Castell big brush pens in Canson Sketchbook.
Preliminary sketch for a painting.
I saw a documentary about Willem De Kooning's art in which he talked about the need to be free of any "ism"...one should be free to just paint a picture. All these terms...expressionism, abstract expressionism, realism, cubism, futurism are, for a painter, just things for a book. He said it was necessary to just talk a walk in your own landscape. I agree, so I do.

PORTRAIT OF JAMES JOYCE PAGE ONE OF ULYSSES

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber-Castell big brush pens on paper.

Happy Bloomsday!

PORTRAIT OF WRITER TONI MORRISON

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber-Castell Big brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook.
From Paris Review # 134:
INTERVIEWER
What do you appreciate most in Joyce?
MORRISON
It is amazing how certain kinds of irony and humor travel. Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don’t know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn’t know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn’t matter because I wasn’t going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn’t have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.

PORTRAIT OF WRITER PETE HAMILL

11 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Faber-Castell Pitt big brushes and Fude brush in Moleskine sketchbook.
One of my favorite writers. His book on Diego Rivera is a masterpiece. Here is a little story about him to remember if you ever get writers block :
" Moderator Pete Hamill, a journalist, editor and author, said the night that Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles, he was about 5 feet from the candidate.
Hamill was so devastated by the death that he suffered writer's block for months.
He went to an old friend and big New York Democrat, Paul O'Dwyer, about his problem.
``You're not important enough to have writer's block,'' O'Dwyer said. Hamill chuckled and soon was back on the writing keys. Hamill went on to write several books, including his memoir ``A Drinking Life.''

PORTRAIT OF JAMES JOYCE ON LAST PAGE OF ULYSSES

11" x 8" Faber-Castell big brush on paper

PORTRAIT OF CORNEL WEST

11 1/2" x 8 1/2"   Uniball pen, speedball ink and Faber-Castell big brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook

FROM SKETCHBOOK TO LARGER DRAWING

FROM 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" sketchbook to 18" x 24" drawing.  Sketchbook was Uniball pen and watercolor in Moleskine sketchbook.  The drawing was Faber-Castell Big brush pens on Strathmore Bristol paper.

JULIE AND HOSS

54" x 48" Oil on canvas

THE CUT MAN

THE CUT MAN - 18" x 24" Oil on canvas (Private Collection)

PORTRAIT OF RICHARD McDOUGLAD

PORTRAIT OF RICHARD McDOUGLAD 1923-2016
Our dear sweet friend passed this May 18th at age 93. This is a portrait I did of him in pencil back in 2006. He was one of the good guys yo meet in this life. Thank you so much for all the fun times and life lessons Mac. Save a spot for us.

PSYCHEDELIC DUDE

18" x 24 " Oil on canvas digital enhancement

PAINTER LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber Castell big brush pens and Pentel pen in Moleskine sketchbook

VINCE

11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  Quick sketch Pentel pen and ink wash in Canson sketchbook

HULT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Preliminary sketch - 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber Castell big brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook

DOC MARTENS

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and watercolor in Moleskine sketchbook

JULIE AND BABY RIO

 18" x 24" pastel on paper

BIKING

8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Uniball pen and watercolor in Moleskine sketchbook

I FORGIVE YOU - God

11 1/2" x 17" Pencil and ink in Canson sketchbook

JAZZ PLAYER

 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Ink and brush in Canson sketchbook

PORTRAIT OF ARTIST FRANK AUERBACH

16" x 20" Acrylic on canvas