Blue Window

 "Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within."-Claudia Johnson

This painting is 12 X 9 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Lazy Afternoon

 “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time” - John Lubbock

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

Freight Train

 “Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.” - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

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.

Susquehanna Morning

 "Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it." -Norman Maclean

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.

Afternoon Delight

Please be waiting for me baby when I come around.
We could make a lot of lovin' 'for the sun goes down.

(Starland Vocal Band, Afternoon Delight, 1976)

If only my neighbor knew that his house had become my very own series of Rouen Cathedral paintings.

This painting is 7 x 5 oil on canvas panel.

Yellow Sun

 

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun." -Pablo Picasso

 This painting is 9 X 12 oil on hardboard.  Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

The Cottage

 “We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness”

When I was working on this I kept thinking about this painting by Vincent Van Gogh. Naturally, the title was easy to come up with for me.

This painting is 8 x 11 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Morning Bling

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked" - Bernard Meltzer

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 sunlit cadbury creme egg painting.

15

Give Light and the people will find their own way.

Scripps-Howard newspapers, motto.

This painting is 11 x 8 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

The Biggs Museum opening on Friday was excellent. We ran into a lot of people we knew, including Jeffrey Todd Moore (or, as we lovingly call him, Jeff # 2) as well as my Uncle John. It was so crowded we had a hard time moving around.

Sun

Break forth o beauteous heavenly Light, and usher in the morning
Come, quickly come, and let Thy glory shine, gilding out darksome heaven with rays divine
(Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Christmas Oratorio, 1734)

This painting is 8 x 6 oil on canvas panel.

Tonight is the Biggs Picture: First Look pARTy opening reception in Dover. The exhibition will be up until June 19th. If you can't make it, a review can be found here.

Biggs Museum of American Art
406 Federal Street
Dover, DE 19901
302.674.2111

Moon

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." -W. Clement Stone

This painting is 7" X 5" oil on hardboard.

Just Before Sunset

"Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthusiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset." -Terry Pratchett, The Thief of Time, 2001

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.

Red Truck

"When snow falls, nature listens."  - Antoinette van Kleeff

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

Corner

“None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.” - Kathleen Norris

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.

Orange Chimneys

 "Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication" - Leonardo da Vinci

This painting is 7 x 5 oil on canvas panel. 

Silver & Gold Kisses

“The wife yearns for gold and silver, and her friends, the senses, yearn for good food.” 

- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

This painting is 7 x 5 oil on canvas panel. This painting has sold but you can see the print if you click here.
This painting was a little experimental, I used a black ground instead of orange and I really like the effect it had on the highlights in the foil. Happy Valentine's Day everybody!

Light Through a Tree

 “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” - Abraham Lincoln

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.

Biggs Picture Exhibit Info

I wanted to remind everybody about the Biggs Picture Exhibit on March 4 with the info below. For directions click here. I hope to see you there, after all we're a HOOT!

Suburban Sparkle

 “Houses are built to live in and not to look on.” - Sir Francis Bacon

I respectfully disagree Mr. Bacon. You would think that with a cool name like Bacon the guy would know something. 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.

Sunny Patch

 "Buy land. They've stopped making it." - Mark Twain

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.