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What The Trees Showed Me -- hiking and painting

I don't know if it was serendipity or coincidence, but a day after a late summer's hike to a local Reservoir --with autumn closing in, as...

Milla is Divine--The Gentleman Who Fell

Back when I first launched my website in 2014, I distinctly remember posting The Gentleman Who Fell video to my correlating Facebook...

From The Car Window -- painting and driving

Driving home yesterday I realized that several of my works have been inspired by scenes seen through my car window. For some time now I...

Wry Smiles and Robberies. (Painting nudes is risky).

The first nude I ever painted was based on a photo spread in Playboy Magazine. Normally, I only read that periodical for the articles of...

Mantis Man of the Musconetcong --cryptid art

Three years ago I was on the television show "Monsters and Mysteries in America", having been a witness to, well, an odd "apparition"...

revisiting Rattlesnake Meadow -- landscape photography and painting

I came across an early clip of The Rolling Stones the other day. Just 18 months into their career, they were on the Mike Douglas Show in...

Light and Longing -- A summer fades

There is a certain kind of suspended tension to the last days of summer. A clinging culmination slowly losing hold. Sure, Cicadas take...

Clear skies are creepy -- why my skies have drama

A few years ago a friend and I were talking about the movie The Truman Show and its controlled bubbled atmosphere when he mentioned how...