Postcards From The Easel A Blog about the Art and Artifice of Still Life Painting
Teacup with Green Napkin
This week’s featured painting is “Pear, Olives, Knife, and Peach” from 2017. It is done with oil on linen, and measures 9 x 12 inches. If I had unlimited cash, I would of course buy many paintings. But I would also buy fine antique oriental rugs. To me, they are not just functional or decorative, […]
Orange, Knife, Teapot, Teacup
This week’s featured painting is “Pear, Olives, Knife, and Peach” from 2017. It is done with oil on linen, and measures 9 x 12 inches. If I had unlimited cash, I would of course buy many paintings. But I would also buy fine antique oriental rugs. To me, they are not just functional or decorative, […]
Tangerine No. 2
This week’s featured painting is “Pear, Olives, Knife, and Peach” from 2017. It is done with oil on linen, and measures 9 x 12 inches. If I had unlimited cash, I would of course buy many paintings. But I would also buy fine antique oriental rugs. To me, they are not just functional or […]
Forum No. 9
This week’s featured painting is “Pear, Olives, Knife, and Peach” from 2017. It is done with oil on linen, and measures 9 x 12 inches. If I had unlimited cash, I would of course buy many paintings. But I would also buy fine antique oriental rugs. To me, they are not just functional or decorative, […]
Feather and Creamer
This week’s featured painting is “Pear, Olives, Knife, and Peach” from 2017. It is done with oil on linen, and measures 9 x 12 inches. If I had unlimited cash, I would of course buy many paintings. But I would also buy fine antique oriental rugs. To me, they are not just functional or decorative, […]
Lemons and Glass Creamer
I love light…I love the way it cascades and dances across the forms it encounters – almost flowing like water over the surfaces.
Teacup, Green Napkin, Striped Cloth
This featured painting is “Teacup, Green Napkin, Striped Cloth” from 2022. It is done with oil on panel, and measures 5 x 5 inches.Most of the paintings I have seen that stay with me – the ones I can see clearly in my mind’s eye – have something mysterious about them.
Silver Teapot and Glass
This week’s featured painting is “Silver Teapot and Glass” from 2007. It is done with oil on linen on panel, and measures 8 x 10 inches.I never get tired of looking at glass.Sometimes when I’m setting up my paintings, I will spend hours placing different pieces of glassware in the composition – just to see […]
Underpaintings With A Twist
This week’s featured painting is “Silver Spoon, Chinese Teacup, Blue Napkin” from 2021. It is done with oil on panel, and measures 5 x 5 inches.I create most of my paintings using the same process – a careful drawing on the panel, followed by a black and white underpainting, and completed with the color layer.For […]
Fresh Pears Gallery
Fresh Pears Recent and older paintings of pears For your enjoyment, here is a small collection of older paintings containing pears, which always seem to me the most human-like of fruits. Click on any of the images to view the gallery.
Teacup and Cherries in Shadow
The ginger jar in today’s painting is the same one that appeared yesterday. You might also notice that the cloth is the same cloth that was used in the very first painting I shared with you several days ago.
Four Oranges
The ginger jar in today’s painting is the same one that appeared yesterday. You might also notice that the cloth is the same cloth that was used in the very first painting I shared with you several days ago.
Oranges, Olives, Ginger Jar
When I showed you the second painting in the tour a few days ago, I mentioned that it was part of a set of three similar paintings done within a six week period.This is another member of that set.
Red Cherries, Silver Cup
The third and final painting in this tour is called “Red Cherries, Silver Cup”, from 2019.This painting is much smaller and simpler than the previous two, but it has what I consider the real heart and soul of still life painting – it captures a moment of frozen time, and allows the viewer to linger […]
Silver and Orange
The second painting I’d like to share with you is called “Silver and Orange”, from 2017.This is a smaller scale than the painting I shared with you yesterday, but still what I consider a large work, at 9×12 inches (22×30 cm).
Tea and Oranges
Let’s begin with a painting from 2011 entitled “Tea and Oranges”.This is one of the most ambitious paintings I’ve done, because every square inch (or centimeter, if you prefer) is covered with rich, intricate detail.
Glass Creamer and Lemon Slices
This week’s featured painting is “Glass Creamer and Lemon Slices” from 2022. It is done with oil on panel, and measures 5 x 5 inches.This week I had dinner with a friend visiting from out of town.Although not an artist himself, he is most interested in the behind-the-scenes story of making art, and asks intelligent […]
Pear and Knife on Purple Silk
This week’s featured painting is “Pear and Knife on Purple Silk” from 2019. It is done with oil on linen, and measures 5 x 5 inches.It’s not an accident that many of these paintings are built on the underlying design of a pyramid.In the physical world, the pyramid is the most stable structure for a […]
Pear, Olives, Knife, and Peach
This week’s featured painting is “Pear, Olives, Knife, and Peach” from 2017. It is done with oil on linen, and measures 9 x 12 inches. If I had unlimited cash, I would of course buy many paintings. But I would also buy fine antique oriental rugs. To me, they are not just functional or decorative, […]