
Three-Hour Figure Studies from 2013
The following works were made as demonstrations during my 3-hour figure painting classes every Saturday afternoon in the Spring of 2013. For more on my school, please visit the PADASOR website. If you are interested in purchasing…

Self-Portrait at Age 43

Portrait of Arianna
Watch a time-lapse video of the seven-hour, three-day process.

Figure Drawing Highlights: 2013

Water and Graphite, Volume II: Figure Studies
Highlights from 2013

Head Studies from 2013
The following works were made as demonstrations during my 3-hour portrait painting classes every Saturday morning in the Spring of 2013. For more on my school, please visit the PADASOR website. If you are interested in purchasing one…

Self-Portrait at Age 42: A Caravaggio Palette
This is a self-portrait that I did during the course Caravaggio Part I: Flesh Illuminated. It centered on a palette made exclusively of the following Williamsburg paints:
Canton Rose;
Italian Lemon Ochre;
Italian Black Roman Earth;
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Three Self-Portraits: Three Ways to Paint
Control your edges to find the air.

Cleopatra
The time that passed from start to finish was almost a year, but the actual time it took to complete was about 5 sittings of two hours each, the last of which was just me before the mirror.

Water and Graphite, Volume I
My experiments with water-soluble graphite in 2011 were a joyful surprise...

Knight in an Evening Landscape
My second attempt at the National Portrait Gallery competition, which must have been for the 2012 competition. Again rejected. But in retrospect, not my best effort. The portrait of my Dad is a much better painting.
Here is…
