The Locker Room- oil on canvas

Happy Home Opener Red Sox Nation!

This is a painting that was born in 1997!  A great master reproduction of a Norman Rockwell original titled, "The Locker Room".  I revisited this painting this winter after years of ignoring it in my parents attic.  I avoided it.  It was a beast.  I was afraid of it.  I looked at Rockwell's extreme photographic detail and knew I couldn't even come close.  To take it on again meant I had to face my inadequacies as an artist.  In doing that I learned I am no Rockwell!  I tried to bring the canvas to a "finished" stage.  A stage that I could live with...The finished stage taught me that there is value in finishing what you start to your very best effort.  I can live with that.

On the Shore with Merry

A painting of a dear friend and his daughter.  Many people who have viewed the painting think it is Tadhg and Alex.  I wanted it to have a universal feeling of being any father with their daughter sharing a moment in time because it is those moments that are so precious that we want to remember forever.

11 x 14 Oil on Canvas 

Happy Valentines Day

Orchids- 11 x 14 Oil on Canvas

Some flowers are so beautiful, one wants to remember them forever.  These orchids were sent to Tadhg from Windover in loving memory of his grandma, a beautiful woman, with a radiant smile, who is now peacefully resting with her one true love.

pair of pears in oil 14 x 18

A Sketch in Oil- Afternoon Bather

A sketch in oil of Alex standing on Coffin's beach staring at the ocean.

Bow Rider

This is a large charcoal sketch of my nephew Sean from this summer while he was out for a ride on the Susie Mac.  I forgot how much I loved to sketch in charcoal.

Girl with a Silver Earing

I make my students create a self portrait every year.  Here is my 2011 self portrait.  I love a classic profile.  This is my first true profile self-portrait and yes! I did it holding two mirrors!!

Girl with a Silver Earing

NFS

2011 Self Portrait

Tadhg thinks it's unfinished- He thinks there are problems with the nose and mouth.  I guess he would know my profile better than anyone- but I doubt I will work back into it.