Anton Chekhov (in progress)

watercolor & watercolor pencil on claybord, 11x14"

smiling self portrait tibetan variation

This one is watercolor over my repainted giclee over watercolor paper. The green color is pigment from sleeping beauty turquoise made into watercolor paint. thank you Daniel Smith! more fun to come.

the sunbeam variations

good morning..as this is the happiest self portrait I can imagine creating, I wanted to experiment with it I printed two giclees on the same watercolor paper I did the original on (it took a few hours of work to bring them to "life") and painted the backgrounds with watercolor, acrylic and dyes to approximate the sunbeams from "Howdy Dooit" and "Mickey Rodent"..I had so much fun I want more! hope you enjoy.

self portrait revised

It was brought to my attention that my left eye on this one was too low and the left side of my face was too rounded, so here we are! It will be delivered tomorrow so it is finished. happy Monday my friend.

new self-portrait

Hi there..as usual I have several new paintings finished or nearly so I'm going to share with you..for now here's a new self portrait I was commissioned to paint (how lucky am I?).  watercolor and acrylic on paper, 6.5x8.5"

Ivan in swimwear

Wow, it's been a while since I posted..I have been working on making lots of paintings. I hope to be sharing more with you soon. For now this painting is 9x12", acrylic, watercolor and dyes on paper.

smiling self portrait final

except it's never really final ;) I printed 2 copies on watercolor paper so I can experiment with backgrounds..I want my sunbeams behind me dammit! 

watercolor, acrylic, dyes and sumi ink on paper, 9x12"

(some of) what's on this week

smiling self portrait stage 3

smiling self portrait stage 2

smiling self portrait stage 1

watercolor on paper, 9x12"