My painting The Grand Parade (Valley Forge National Park) will be included in Trediffryn Arts Commission’s Juried Exhibition Valley Forge — Then and Now, opening October 5, 2026. This particular vista is not far from my home and has become one of my favorite places to paint and reflect on the lives of my earliest […]
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When I’m painting, I nearly always like the first, sketchy draft of a piece the most. The shapes are usually strange and the overall feeling is fresh. In this example (left-click on photo to see full view), the tonal range is limited, meaning the lightest and darkest values aren’t too far apart. There’s a haziness […]
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Photo: Nadia Comaneci, 1976, credit agerpres archives via Wikimedia Commons Though 50 years have passed, I remember the excitement of watching 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci score the first perfect ten in Olympic gymnastics at the 1976 Montreal Games. She would go on to earn six more perfect scores that year. What I remember most, […]
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Irises, 14 x 11, oil on canvas panel. My daughter sacrificed these irises for me, even though she didn’t have that many in her garden. Like me, she gets excited every year when they finally bloom. I meant to paint them fresh in the vase, but by the time I got to them they had […]