White Feather

                                 White Feather, oil on panel, 7" x 5"

Martini

                                          Martini, oil on panel, 5 x 7 inches

Cocktail

                                      Cocktail, oil on panel, 5 x 7 inches

Green Hat

                                Green Hat   Oil on panel  5 x 7 inches

White Gloves

White Gloves  7 x 5 inches, oil on panel

1930s nostalgia.

'30s Chic

 Oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches

Orange and Cruet

Oil on panel
7 x 5 inches

Orange Juice

Oil on panel
7 x 5 inches

Creme de Menthe with Marbles

Oil on panel, 7 x 5

Arrangement with Creme de Menthe

Oil on panel, 7 x 5

Orange Bowl

Oil on panel, 7 x 5

Actually, Orange, Bowl, and Glass.

Orange and Glass

Oil on panel, 7 x 5

Oranges and wood are beautiful together, don't you think? Harmonious colors. And glass goes with lots of things. Just an abstract design that happens to use realistic objects.

Sake Bottle and Cup with Blossoms

Oil on panel, 7 x 5 in     Private collection.

OK, so I like sake bottles and cups. Maybe I'll do something different one of these days. I hope you enjoy this one.

Blue Kimono

                                                     

Oll on panel, 12 x 9 in

Japanese traditional culture  --  clothing, women's hair styles, architecture, bonsai horticulture, landscape -- is full of great design. It makes nice subject matter for paintings.

Karen's grandparents

A charcoal portrait of a friend's grandparents, the first portrait in a while.

Sake Bottle

Oil on panel. 6 x 6 inches (15.24 x 15.24 cm.)
Sold

Another in the sake cup and bottle series. This will be shown at the 11th annual Segil Fine Art Small Works show in Monrovia, CA. Show dates are Dec 7 - 31, 2013.

Also in the show will be "Blue Kimono", a 9 x 12 inch oil painting which is "finished", but I'm still doing some tweaking on it. I'll post a photo of it in a few days.

Portrait of Jonathan and Michelle

A recent portrait commission, charcoal on toned paper.

Sake Cup with Orange

A variation on the sake cup theme.

Oil on hardboard panel, 6 x 6 inches (15.24 x 15.24 cm).

Sake Cup and Marbles

I've had this sake cup for a while, but no sake.  So I thought I would put it to some other good use, like in a still life. I could write about the design process, or the learning curve I endured trying to get a good photo and match the colors, but that's probably not interesting to a lot of people. I like the painting, and I hope you enjoy looking at it.

Oil on panel, 6 x 6 in. (15.24 x 15.24 cm)

Amina

This is charcoal with just a little white chalk, on Daler Rowney Canford Imperial drawing paper (Barley color). 10 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. (This info is for artists.)

 I enjoy nostalgia, and the 1930's have some interesting scenes and special appeal for me. Amina, a student at 3 Kicks art studio in Pasadena, is the model.

When I show it at a gallery, I'm thinking of a title like Magnifique or Excellente, or something equally cliched. It might be corny, or it might be a good fit. I need to think about it.