JULIE'S TIGER

40" x 30"  Acrylic on canvass

PORTRAIT OF JOYCE MACDOUGALD

10"x10" pencil and ink on Canson paper

BACK TO BASICS

 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"  Ink and Fude brush in Moleskine sketchbook

Just a little reminder that we all need these days.

BUDDHA NYC SUBWAY

36" x 24" Ink and Fude brush on MTA paper

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

BILL AND THE DONALD CONSPIRE TO HELP HILLARY

18" x 24" Ink on Canson Bristol paper

In May 2015 Bill hatched a brilliant plan to make sure the GOP nominated someone Hillary could beat in the election. He called his pal Donald and planted the seed. It's a win-win for The Donald. He gets to rant, rave and entertain during the campaign saying whatever he wants...then, if he loses he cashes in! And that's how we got to this point. You heard it here first!

PORTRAIT OF TY

14" x 17" Pencil on Strathmore Bristol paper

PORTRAIT OF WYATT

14"x17" Pencil on Strathmore Bristol paper

PORTRAIT OF TY AND WYATT

14" x 17" Pencil on Strathmore Bristol paper

SKETCHING BEN HORTON STYLE # 2

8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Fude brush and Pentel brush pen in Moleskine sketchbook

SKETCHING BEN HORTON STYLE

10" x 8" Fude brush and Pentel brush pen in Moleskine sketchbook.

PORTRAIT PAINTER

8" x 10" Fude brush and Pentel brush pen in Moleskine sketchbook

PORTRAIT OF TY MASSEY

PRELIMINARY SKETCH 9"x12" pencil on Strathmore paper

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.