Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Bear Meeting House

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." - Edith Sitwell


This painting is 9" x 12" oil on hardboard. When I told my neighbor I'd paint his house I had two paintings in mind and this is the second one. This piece is part of the Winter Show at Crystal Moll Gallery, starting February 16th.

I'd also like to share some recognition I received on Friday. I was chosen for an honorable mention for the Delaware Division of the Arts 2012 Fellowship program. This is quite a feat for this very competitive award!


Friday, December 23, 2011

Sunset at Salem

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

I want to wish everyone a very happy holiday, whichever one you celebrate (or even none at all!) 

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Quiet Time

"When fortune calls, offer her a chair" - Yiddish Proverb

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Morning Poetry

 "The poetry of the earth is never dead." - John Keats

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Tall Grass

 "A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long." - Sloan Wilson

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Sweet Sky

 "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."  - Rabindranath Tagore

Sunday, December 11, 2011

In the Sun

 "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This painting is 12" x 9" oil on hardboard. This is a commissioned painting of my neighbor's house so it is not for sale. His house was built 100 years ago and he thought it would be cool to have for the upcoming anniversary. When it was built it was used as a general store, school house (check out that bell!) and a meeting house.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

November Sunset

 "Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."   - Elizabeth Bowen

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Fresh Start

"With each sunrise, we start anew." - Unknown

This painting is 5" x 7" oil on canvas board. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Welcoming Door

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." - Emily Dickinson

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Audience

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Topiary

 "A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows." -Doug Larson

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Early Morning Boardwalk

"On the beach, you can live in bliss." - Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

The Clubhouse

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

This is the Pennsylvania Railroad Workers' private clubhouse, located on the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk. The clubhouse, built in the 1920s, was created so that the railroad workers had a way to spend time with their families in a vacation setting.

This painting is 5" x 7" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting or purchase notecards of this painting.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Sweet Sunrise

"We can travel a long way and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. It is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home." - Sharon Salzberg

This painting of the sun starting it's journey over the Dolle's Salt Water Taffy sign in Rehoboth Beach, DE is 8" x 6" oil on canvas board. 

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Working Early

"To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."  - George Kneller

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Stepping Up

"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep." - Paul Strand

This painting is 5" x 7" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Chair City Morning

 "You can only come to the morning through the shadows."  - J.R.R. Tolkien

This painting is from recent trip I made to Gardner, MA and is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Below are some pictures I took of the setup at the Holiday Fair on Saturday. It was a great event, but as usual we were up until 1 AM preparing for the day.


Above is a close up picture of the table. My wife made that amazing gift wrap table cloth and bow the night before.

That's me, dreaming about my life again.

 The ladies were shopping!

Friday, November 4, 2011

Early Beach Light

 "At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun." - Unknown

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel.



Tomorrow is the big day and your last chance to see my paintings in person before next year. There is also a lot of great pottery, art glass and jewelry. If you're looking to make a whole family trip, the Holiday Fair will be taking place at the same time as the Punkin' Chunkin happening nearby in Bridgeville, DE. Pick up something unique for the holidays and then check out teams hurtling pumpkins up to a mile away.

Booth Location: I will be in the Tubbs Gallery, but the fair takes place throughout every building on the Rehoboth Art League's beautiful 3.5 acre campus.
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011
Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Admission: $5 - Your ticket entitles you to a chance to win an item in the Ventures Gallery. Each artist will donate a piece of their work for the auction You can buy additional auction tickets before the 3:00 p.m. drawing. All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Rehoboth Art League’s educational and outreach programs.
Parking: There is parking onsite at the Rehoboth Art League
Cuisine: The Village Improvement Association. will offer a delicious luncheon featuring their signature chicken salad. Snack items include a bake table with many and varied sweets, along with several beverage choices.
Official Website: rehobothartleague.org

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Skinny House

 "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." -Benjamin Franklin

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Warding Off Demons

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Henry David Thoreau

This painting of a gourd standing guard is from my recent trip to Salem, MA. It is  7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

What sort of demons could this lonely pumpkin keep from entering this beautiful door? Cats in devil costumes looking for treats on Halloween, of course!

Trick or treat!

Friday, October 28, 2011

Escape

"Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities."  - Marcus Terentius Varro

This painting of Baltimore is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Don't forget that if you are in the area of southern Delaware on Saturday, November 5th I'll be at the Rehoboth Art League's Holiday Fair. "Why would I be in the area?" you ask. One good reason is because the World Championship Punkin Chunkin is happening nearby at the same time. Art, crafts, giant cannon loaded with pumpkins, mythbusters... All of this awesomeness happening in such a small state begs the question, how could you NOT escape for a weekend and be here?

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Van Gogh Salem

 "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." -Vincent Van Gogh 

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board.  Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Church of New England Sunlight

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” - Edward Hopper 

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Mushu

"A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours." - Anonymous

I painted this for a friend as a wedding gift. Don't worry, they've already seen it so it's not a surprise. The chihuahua in the painting, Mushu, is so tiny that he might weigh less than this painting once it is framed.

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Urban Garden

 "Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.  " - Lou Erickson

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board.  Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Hometown Pride

"The greatest gift we got is opportunity."  - Ray Lewis

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Rideable Art

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine." - John Howard 

This painting is 6" x 6" oil on hardboard.  This piece has already sold, but you can click here if you'd like to see my other paintings for sale.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Spooky Shadows

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place."
- Emily Dickinson


This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board.   Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Spooky

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Home Alone


"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." - George Washington 

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Bug Light

"A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders."  - Edward Plunkett

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

The Neighbors' Truck

 "All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites." - Marc Chagall 

This painting is 6" x 6" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Tranquil

“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.” - Ann Landers

This painting is 6" x 6" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Morning Grass

"Every drop in the ocean counts." -Yoko Ono 

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas board.  Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Running Errands

"I thought about sunsets, and how the amazing thing about sunsets is that no matter how many you see, it always feels as if that specific sunset was generated for you and you alone." - Douglas Coupland, Generation A, (Simon And Schuster, 2009) 115

This painting is 6" x 8" oil on canvas board panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Solitude

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."  - Marcus Aurelius

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Great news! For those of you that love to hang out with me in person but hate being outside, I've just added an indoor show to my schedule...


The Beach? In November? The galleries of the Rehoboth Art League will be filled with holiday magic. I’ll be joining 40 juried artists for this one-day, invitation only, holiday-inspired show. There will also be a raffle and silent auction.

Address: 12 Dodds Lane, Henlopen Acres, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Location: TBA
Show Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011
Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Admission: $5, Your ticket entitles you to a chance to win an item in the Ventures Gallery.
Additional auction raffle ticket are available for $1 per ticket. You can also choose six tickets for $5.
Cuisine: Lunch will be available from the Village Improvement Association’s cafe.

Parking: There is parking on site at the Rehoboth Art League

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Brandywine Park Bridge

 “The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” -David Russell

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Above the Brandywine

"Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us." - Bruce Jackson 

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Valley Forge

 "To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace." -George Washington

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board.  Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Mayflower


"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

This painting is 6" x 6" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

September Light

"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." - Edward Hopper

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.