Posted November 26, 2024
Showing posts with label Portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portrait. Show all posts
Frederick Douglass
Available from the Billis Williams Gallery.
Posted September 28, 2024
John Marshall
8"x 8" oil on panel ••• I present to you in gooey resplendence the fourth, and arguably, the most important of our Chief Justices. It dawned on me that I may not have shared this diminutive piece with you—at least not close up—and this seems like an appropriate time. • The Honorable John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States was really the modeler of the court, it being in its infancy and desperately needing to be molded.
Posted April 6, 2021
sold • private collection
Nunzilla!
4"x6" oil on panel ••• Nunzilla seems like such an easy topic for discussion, but all I can tell you is that The Spousal Unit was against Nunzilla from the start. What's not to like? You wind her up (the toy, not the Wife) and she walks at you (a creepy walk, more like a swampthing crawl) with sparks coming out of her mouth. Simply wonderful! • Let's move on to a much more important topic. There is a technical term frequently used in oil painting studios around the globe and it goes like this: Where the $%&@# did that smudge of paint come from?!?!? (Etymologists have been able to trace its usage as far back as the reign of Ramsses II—circa 1250 B.C.—give or take.) • A smudge of oil paint can travel around a studio like, well... hellfire, so finding its origin can be quite difficult. One minute your fine and the next you have smudges all over the place. You stand there dumbfounded, terrified to move and mumbling, "Where the $%&@# did that nefarious smudge of paint come from?!?!?" As you can probably deduce, this just happened to me. The culprit this time is alizarin crimson and its origin still eludes me. Alizarin crimson is a wicked pigment that you do not want loose in the studio*. So far, it has been located on several of my digits, my trusty 12 ft. tape measure, and my not-so-trusty keyboard. Yikes, I just found it up and down my right sleeve, damn you smudge! God forbid it finds its way into the family manse. Which brings to mind another of my personal mantras: Do not wind up The Spousal Unit and have Her start shooting sparks out of Her mouth! • The hunt goes on.
*I
was going to say that alizarin crimson is a pigment that should be used
sparingly, but I do not use any pigment sparingly, so that would be a
bit hypocritical of me.
Posted September 17, 2020
sold • private collection washington, dc
Kahlo, F.
Posted August 18, 2020
sold • private collection los angeles, ca
Hemingway, E.
8"x8" oil on panel ••• Mr. Hemingway here is another in my recent series of 8"x 8" portraits. • There is much that can be said about Mr. Hemingway: How he changed the style of American storytelling or his ginormous ego or the way he lived his life or even the manner in which he chose to leave this mortal coil. But for me, the thing that really stands out about this titan of American prose is that wicked comb over of his. (Yes, I am that base.) My late maternal grandfather had a nasty comb over just like Mr. Hemingway's and let me tell you, when a gust of wind came up, that scary 9" flap of Grecian Formula rose up like an evil specter causing many a small dog to become incontinent. (Wow, I thought I had successfully blocked that memory.) Anyhow...
Posted August 12, 2020
Angelou, A.
Posted August 1, 2020
Lennon, J.
8"x8" oil on panel ••• My second 8x8 of Mr. Lennon.
Posted May 28, 2020
sold • private collection los angeles, ca
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