Vespa Girl

11"x 14" oil on canvas

Posted November 26, 2024

 

Yashica 8mm Movie Camera

16"x 16" oil on canvas

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Posted October 19, 2024

Revere Eye-Matic 8mm Movie Camera

16"x 16" oil on canvas

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Posted October 18, 2024

Bolex Paillard 8mm Movie Camera

16"x 16" oil on canvas

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Posted October 17, 2024

Wollensak 8mm Movie Camera

16"x 16" oil on canvas

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Posted October 16, 2024

Fine Booze

20"x 10" oil on canvas

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Posted October 9, 2024

Frederick Douglass

16"x 16" oil on canvas

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Posted September 28, 2024

VW Bus

46"x 46" oil on canvas

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Posted September 23, 2024

Jiichan's Argus C-3

8"x 12" oil on canvas

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Posted September 18, 2024

Charlie

 

36"x 36" oil on canvas

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Posted September 17, 2024

Chili John's

 24"x 16" oil on canvas

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Posted August 29, 2024

Box City

20"x 16" oil on canvas

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Posted August 26, 2024

Sincere Imports

20"x 30" oil on canvas

Posted May 9, 2023

Argoflex Seventy-Five Camera

12"x 8" oil on canvas

Posted April 22, 2023

 

Frederick Douglass

8"x 8" oil on canvas

Posted August 6, 2022

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Rod's Ice (The Larger)

40"x 40" oil on canvas

Posted July 28, 2022

 

Chinatown Apts

18"x 12" oil on canvas

Posted July 13, 2022

 

Zinke's

20"x 16" oil on canvas ••• This shoe repair store was just up the street from, what was, my favorite deli, Billy's Delicatessen. That deli spoiled me for life. You could not find a sandwich on the menu that was not at least four inches thick. The kreplach soup was divine—especially when I was feeling under the weather— and the knishes were to die for. (Great, now I am hungry.) • Let's move away from knishes (smothered in gravy*) and get back to the piece you see here. This place was not on my "to do list" of paintings for my cityscape show, but there was this blank 20x16 canvas menacingly staring at me from across the studio. So, here it is in gooey oil paint. It also seemed like a good idea to document the place since it is also no longer there. • If you are wondering why I did not do a painting of Billy's, it is because the place is long gone, taking the only good knishes in town with it.

*Sorry to all you New Yorkers out there, but I like my knishes smothered in gravy.

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Posted January 22, 2022

Rae's

26"x 20" oil on canvas ••• The subject of the painting you see above, Rae's Restaurant, is a typical American diner located on what would be called the Westside of LA. It has slippery vinyl upholstered booths and counter stools and haute cuisine designed to kill you like the "Hobo Special." The type of meals that clog your arteries just reading about them on the menu. Wonderful... simply wonderful. • It is also one of the places The Spousal Unit and I haunted when we were "a-courtin'." We had a very short courtship—only nine years long.

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Posted January 21, 2022

Mir-A-Mar Court

30"x 20" oil on canvas ••• The Mir-A-Mar Court is one of those places that, depending on where you live, you think you have seen. A common comment from somebody seeing my painting for the first time often starts out, "Oh, I know that place, it's down in..." Whenever this happens, I feel that I should not disappoint them by telling them where it actually is. But then I remind myself, "Self," I say, "when did you become a nice person?" Then I go ahead and tell them that it is actually in Pismo Beach. You know Pismo Beach? It's the place Bugs Bunny was trying to get to whenever he veered off course and found himself in a cave or some such place.

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Posted December 2, 2021