New paintings and upcoming NARO poster!

Dunna, Dunna, Dunna.....

May 13, 2025

Hey everyone!

Summer is near and things are in motion! Gloucester Plein Air is starting next month, so it won’t be long before I have to start prepping canvas panels. In the meantime, here are some painting demos I did for my evening class. This was my demo for Monday’s make up class from me being out with Covid.

Windy City Stroll - 9x12 oil on canvas - AVAILABLE.

This was my demo from last week. If you have followed my work long enough, you might have remembered I had done a smaller painting of this years ago. I like this one better as it’s more refined, and I got the left hand down. I’ve painted Iffatt several times and she’s always fun subject.

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And now to the JAWS movie poster! This was my first idea, but I’ve scrapped it for another that I think has better feel to it. I did several thumbnails and like several ideas, but as with everything I try to do now, it must have a mood about it. Can you guess which thumbnail I’m moving forward with? Click the drawing below to see my LIVE Youtube session of this.

Today I did a ink drawing to warm up before painting. I like doing these, but like everything else in, there are only so many hours in the day. Painting usually wins the day over ink drawing.

This was a painting that popped up on my Facebook feed. I really liked the effort and got a mood with it. Somebody has this painting, I just don’t know who ended up with it.

No photo description available. — Painting of the Cape Charles Pier - Unknown Collection

Another fun sketch using the original app “Zen Brush”. I haven’t used the more recent versions, but I really did like this one and the way it felt. And of course, I got some energy in this! Wish I hadn’t ran out of room and left hand didn’t make it in.

And of course, this one also came up in a Facebook reminders recently. I had to fill in for the model after they got ill ten minutes into the session. Probably the only time an artist was allowed to pose at the Norfolk Drawing Group with clothes on! There’s more to this story, but for the sake of the internet, I’ll leave it at that. I’m pretty sure I sanded this one over for the next painting night. I really enjoyed seeing how all the other artists drew me at the end of the night!