I VOTED

11" x 8/1/2" Fude brush and watercolor in Strathmore 500 Series sketchbook

STAGGER LEE

11" x 14" Speedball super black India ink, Windsor Newton series 7 #2 brush and Fude brush in Canson sketchbook

On Christmas Eve, 1895, in a St. Louis saloon, "Stag" Lee Shelton, a black pimp, shot William "Billy" Lyons. Eyewitnesses say Billy snatched Stag's Stetson hat. Boom, boom, boom, boom went Stag's forty-four. You don't mess with a man's hat.

EL JEFE

11" x 14"  Speedball super black India ink, Raphael 8404 #3 brush and Faber-Castell big brushes in Canson sketchbook

TRICK OR TREAT

11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  Fude brush, Faber-Castell brush pens and acrylic in Canson sketchbook

ROY HAYNES ON DRUMS

11" x 14" Ink, Fude brush and Faber Castell brush pens in Canson sketchbook

SELF PORTRAIT AT THE DRAWING BOARD

11" x 14"  Rapidograph black India ink and Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush in Canson sketchbook

EINSTEIN

18" x 24" Acrylic on canvas Private collection

I met Einstein in a dream
Springtime on Princeton lawn grass
I kneeled down & kissed his young thumb
like a ruddy pope
his face fresh broad cheeked rosy
“I invented a universe separate,
something like a Virgin”–
“Yes, the creature gives birth to itself,”
I quoted from Mescaline
We sat down open air universal summer
to eat lunch, professors’ wives
at the Tennis Court Club,
our meeting eternal, as expected,
my gesture to kiss his fist
unexpectedly saintly
considering the Atom Bomb I didn’t mention.
-Allen Ginsberg

THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN'

11" x 14" Ink, acrylic and Faber-Castell brush pens in Canson sketchbook

SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INTERIOR

 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Ink and Faber-Castell brush pens in Canson sketchbook

PORTRAIT OF JULIE JANNEAN

 24" x 36"  Oil on board  1994  Private Collection

OLD SOLDIER

18" x 24" Pastel on paper

SUNNY FOX

26" x 31" Ink, pencil and Faber Castel brush pens on paper
What a great weekend I had! Our Miss Rio visited and we kept producing our art way past the time when out hands were hurting. It was that much fun and I learned a lot. Thanks Ryan Holbrook and Wendy Holbrook . She's great!

2ND AVENUE EAST 6TH STREET

 11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  ink and brush in Canson Sketchbook

Since I seem to be using a lot of ink this October I thought I'd touch up and finish this unfinished piece.  How do I know when a piece is finished? It stops being a pain in the butt.

THE CATCH

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Faber-Castel brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook
It's that time again in baseball. Great plays seem to manifest during autumn. I only know about this catch made by Willie Mays from the video, but what a play!
"In the eighth inning of Game 1, with the score tied 2-2 and two runners on base, Indians first baseman Vic Wertz hit a fly ball 440 feet deep into center field. Mays turned, ran and then caught the ball over his shoulder with his back to the infield, before spinning and firing the ball back into the infield to keep the runners from advancing. The catch preserved the tie, and the Giants won the game on a home run by Dusty Rhodes in the 10th inning. When he was asked later about the catch, Mays famously replied, “I don’t rank ‘em, I just catch ‘em.” The Giants went on to sweep the 1954 World Series." - from the History channel

RED HAIR

18" x 24" Oil on canvas
“Her heavy peasant face was fringed by a bang of red hair like a woolen table-spread, a color at once strange and attractive, an obstinate color, a color that seemed to make Lena feel something alien and bad-tempered had settled over her forehead...”
― Djuna Barnes

SEEKER OF VISIONS

24" x 24" Acrylic on hardboard
August 1992 Private Collection

PORTRAIT OF WOMAN

 10" x 8 " Pencil on paper

DAD

18" x 24" Acrylic on canvas

Another portrait of my father in law from the early 1990's.

BOOTS

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Fude brush, Faber-Castell big brush pens and china marker in Moleskine sketchbook

STUDY OF FREUD'S IRISHMAN

18" x 24"  Oil on canvas