South Haven Sunset

South Haven Sunset

from various photos taken on family vacations to South Haven, Michigan

oil on canvas - 36" x 12"

Some detail images:

Fun With Pen & Ink

I have gotten back into pen and ink work again lately as I am contemplating doing another Lincoln portrait. (see others here, here and here.)

A beautiful gnarled tree I found in Bunker Hill Forest Preserve.

Noodlers #41 Brown ink with Esterbrook 788 nib in Strathmore Toned Tan sketchbook

Horse and Round Tailed Ground Squirrel from online references.

Noodlers #41 Brown ink with Esterbrook 788 nib on Rives tan paper

Some Figurative Paintings

Painted from life in my Evanston Art Center Class with Eleanor Spiess-Ferris. I have more of these awaiting completion. I never can seem to finish them off in the course of a 2-week pose.

oil on canvas board

An experiment with the Zorn palette (excepting the background).

Reference image from here.

oil on illustration board

Trees & Snow color study

A color study for a larger painting.

Seems to show some influence from a book I got into recently: Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige by Charles S. Moffett. I am a very selective, and not massive fan of Impressionism, but the more restrained colors used in the winter scenes in this book clicked with me.

oil on Arches oil paper

Snow Oil Sketch

oil sketch from inside the car at Bunker Hill Forest Preserve in Chicago last Monday

oil on board

cherry branch

an older one - from a branch of a neighbor's tree that is no longer with us

oil on 8" x 10" board

Pajama George

Once upon a time my daughter asked me to make a painting for her of something she likes. I chose her longtime companion, Pajama (Curious) George. A late Christmas present.

oil on 4"x4" board