Red Raspberries in Spode Teacup

Red Raspberries in Spode Teacup

6x6 inches / oil on panel

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Always refreshing, this red, white and blue color combination brings a smile along with thoughts of summertime. Tender red raspberries punctuate this charming Spode teacup.

Baseball Well Played at 60 oil painting sports theme

Baseball Well Played at 60

5x5 inches / oil on panel

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It’s been a couple of years since I’d painted a baseball, so it was particularly delightful to revisit this subject. This painting was personalized with the addition of “60” no doubt commemorating a very special day! 

Cherries in Spode Blue Italian Bowl red white blue oil painting still life

Cherries in Spode Blue Italian Bowl

6x6 inches / oil on panel

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A luscious subject so often painted, this red, white and blue theme is my most popular! Feel free to browse my website to see a larger sampling including several pages of paintings utilizing this most cheerful color scheme.

Fulfilling my heart's desire with new, fresher, more mature still life oil paintings on the horizon

For many years I've painted from memory, something I've not liked to share too much as many folks don't quite understand what that means.  It's simply been a vision in my mind's eye that I quickly wash onto canvas or panel, continuing to build refinement while sometimes referring to subjects in life or images for final detailing.  However, as my inner voice has been calling me toward a new direction more representational of my true spirit, I've been impatient to fulfill this urge. Therefore, in the past two or three years as my garden shares it's bounty, I've been capturing nature's transient beauty in digital photographs to be referenced at a future date as time permits.  In the midst of a photo shoot when creativity abounds, my desk becomes a cluttered mess of freshly cut garden blossoms, an array of vessels and other miscellaneous props. My photo shoots take a minimum of several hours as every nuance is adjusted frame by frame resulting in hundreds if not thousands of photos from which only a few will be selected as reference for oil paintings. These spectacular images are being reserved for larger, more refined paintings with a new freshness -- more mature work than you've seen from me in the past. Three of these new works will be included in the prestigious American Society of Traditional Artists National Museum Exhibit. These newest oil paintings are my true heart's desire.