Up Close

Chuck Close paints with amazing detail, but what is he actually painting? Check it out (here).

 

Final Painting of the Summer

My summer of painting has come to an end. Check out my last painting (here).

A Special Project and an Update

More summer painting. Check out my progress (here).

 

Chess

I've started a new painting Check out my progress (here).

 

Summer in the Garage

Here's a completed portrait and progress on my summer painting. Check it out (here).

 

A Rose is a Rose

It's hard creating faces that don't resemble anyone in particular, but I might have accidentally painted a celebrity. Check it out (here).

 

Sorting Fish on Tonle Sap Lake

I've finally broken in my new taboret. Check it out (here).

 

In Van Gogh's Footsteps

In Arles we followed in Van Gogh's footsteps. Read about it (here).

 

Tools and Taborets

My dad must have been smiling in heaven the other day over my new purchase. Check it out (here).

 

Just Slap on Some Paint

Mrs. Chatterbox thought painting was easy. Check it out (here).

 

Giveaway Winner !

Announcing the winner of my holiday giveaway. Check it out (here).

 

Painting Children

Most people like paintings of children, but children are a challenge to paint. Read about it (here).

Old-Fashioned Selfies

Vanity isn’t usually the reason artists stare into a mirror to capture the nuances of their own countenance. Check it out (here). 

 

What Size Humanity?

I recently encountered a dwarf at the mall, and was reminded of other dwarfs I've seen, in museums. Check it out (here).

 

Feast or Famine

After being summoned to defend himself before the Holy Roman Inquisition, the Venetian painter Veronese did something extraordinary. Read about it (here).

 

Face Off

How accurate were portrait artists before the invention of photography? Likenesses varied, as is evidenced by these two portraits. Read about it (here).

 

The Protest: Finale

 
Over the past few months much has happened at Casa Chatterbox and I just now realized I never posted final pictures of Protest II. Check out the final painting (here.)

 

America's Michelangelo

Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900) is not a name that springs to mind in a discussion of great American painters, yet there was a time when he was considered the Michelangelo of American landscape painters. Read about him (here.)

Peculiar Pictures 39, 40, 41

 

I’ve mentioned the Business Fundamentals CD I created for Artville back in the 90’s when I was a professional illustrator, and here are a few images from that CD. Check them out (here).

Honesty

Children are often painfully honest, as I learned when son CJ commented on my self-portrait. Read about it (here).