Vessel Series

Another Cup painting from the vessel series:  "Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim."
Byron                      This is 20 x 30 oil

Faces I Know

I've always loved to make up faces.  It's something I've done since I was little.  I watched by mother doodling faces while she talked on the phone.  So here are some in oil, and one from last post on the Atlanta Artists Center home page.  Very happy to get first prize in the April Dogwood show there!

Happy Easter and Passover

Here's my bunny from the High Museum Garden tour last spring.  The painting is now living at the beautiful home (and garden) of the bunny in Buckhead. 

A face:  (A Closer Look, Oil)

 And some more cups!
"My Cup Runneth Over", oil

and, "I Promise You a Rose Garden"

Uglow and The Diagonal

                                                      The Diagonal Homage to Uglow by Nancy Blum
I recently have found (online see Painting Perceptions) the art of Euan Uglow.  He's probably well know to many artists -- especially British, and has influenced the work of figurative and still life artists.   He used devices to measure and order the canvas and felt it was important to leave those lines and angles in the painting.  Models posed for long periods of time, and even the fruit or vegetables had to stay in place to accurately be painted.  The changes in the fruit would be painted right over the original painting.

My small painting, on the other hand, was painted just over a period of a couple of days.  This was long enough for my beautiful carrots to undergo quite an aging process.  Not having a model on hand, I had to make do with the carrots and a toy chair I came across.  The carrots looked quite like legs to me...

So here is Uglow's Diagonal:

March Still Life

Latest Still Life

Less is More

From Arcadia Gallery (NY)'s blog Less is More
two wonderful artists,

Malcolm T. Liepke  

and

Aron Wiesenfeld

                    Here are two recent paintings inspired by a model session:

Once Upon an Evening

Here's another figurative painting that I began at a recent model session: