Category: Watercolor
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I Am An Artist
There’s a line in the movie Midnight in Paris… Gil, standing in the rain with his notebook, gets called a child by his fiancée and by everyone who knows him well. I know those words. My lovers have ascribed them to me too… a little boy, Peter Pan, the man who never got out of the…
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In Search of My Feminine Identity
She turns out to be legion. I asked Claude AI to read every dream I journaled over seven years and assess every nude I have painted over twenty, and to count the women inside them. The number that came back was not small. Hundreds of them, named and unnamed, real and invented, across over one…
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Hermosa
Watercolor Wash and Graphite on Handmade Paper 2025 26 x 36 cm Hermosa is Spanish for beautiful.
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Guapa
Original Watercolor on Handmade Paper 2024 51 x 38 cm Guapa is the Spanish word for beautiful.
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My Latest Watercolor
(Click painting to enlarge) Fragmentation Original Watercolor on Handmade Paper 44 x 50 cm I’d like very much to have painted a cohesive picture with a soothing palette today. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with time, produces flowers and grass to cover destruction. But we are a world of fragmented…
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My 15 Favorite Watercolors (out of 300+) and Why
I’ve completed over 300 paintings in two decades, an average of more than one per month. That does not include numerous sketches, graphite drawings, castings, artistic photographs, and three-dimensional art. Choosing favorites from creations that are all one’s “babies” is daunting. But here are my favorite fifteen watercolors and my interpretation, fully realizing yours may…
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A Portrait of The Artist as a Grown Man (Video and Text)
This post includes the video and text version, the art displayed on the easel in the video, and an exclusive 48-second look at my new atelier at Montecinos in Barcelona. Enjoy. Please click to SUBSCRIBE. A Portrait of The Artist As A Grown Man (A Stream of Consciousness with Apologies to James Joyce) I did…
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My Latest Watercolor — Melissa Greene — A Real Person
I rarely paint real people, an occasional commission (most of which are very personal and private), and of course, many renderings of my companion Gina (some of which are also private). But a few weeks ago, I knew Melissa Greene and I were getting together for a day at Kalien Retreat. I felt compelled to…
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My Heart Hurts — My Latest Watercolor
“My Heart Hurts” 14″ x 20″ Graphite and Watercolor on Handmade Paper There are times an artist should paint their dreams. This is my anima grieving for America, for my family, friends, and former parishioners who have sold their souls to a traitorous dictator.
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Enantiodromia — My Latest Watercolor
18″ x 24″ Original Graphite and Watercolor As far as I can remember, I have never given an interpretation for one of my 200+ watercolors. I prefer the observer to form their own opinions and ideas. But this painting is so important to me personally that I feel it might be of interest to some.…
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My Latest Watercolor: “Hush, Little Baby, Don’t Say A Word”
“Hush, Little Baby, Don’t Say A Word” Original 11″ x 13″ Watercolor and Graphite on Handmade Paper Sexual abuse of children is a pervasive and horrific problem throughout all religions, as institutional assumptions and procedures tend to protect predators and harm victims. In this painting, I have listed only a handful of religious leaders convicted…
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“Easy Target” My Latest Watercolor
Original 24″ x 36″ Graphite and Watercolor on Handmade Paper “Easy Target” Throughout history, freedom has been suppressed by white male authoritarians and law enforcement.
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Are My Watercolors Art or Pornography?
Look at this painting. Is it of a nude person, or would you label it a naked person? Is it a woman, a female, a girl, or a lady? Which word is precisely the right one? From my perspective, as the artist, none of the gender words are correct. But the painting remains the same,…
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My Latest Watercolor: “Lady of Corbenic”
“Lady of Corbenic” 17″ x 28″ Handmade Watercolor Paper and Graphite For many years Lancelot drifted in a mysterious boat, in self-exile out on the open sea, and gradually his soul was lightened by the sweet foreshadowing of paradise, and his body nourished by nature. At last, in solitude, Lancelot found himself carried to a…
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My Latest Watercolor “Agape”
Original Watercolor and Graphite 18″ x 24″ “They will know we are Christians by our love.” —Fr. Peter Scholtes
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Miles From Nowhere — My Latest Watercolor
‘Miles From Nowhere” 22″ x 26″ Original Watercolor and Graphite on Handmade Paper $599. 11″ x 16″ Limited Edition Giclee Print $149. 16″ x 20″ Ready to Hang Canvas $249. “Miles from nowhere, not a soul in sight, oh yeah, but it’s alright. I have my freedom, I can make my own rules, oh yeah, the…
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Nude Reclining—My Latest Watercolor
Nude Reclining 8.5″ x 11″ Original watercolor and graphite on handmade paper $350. “I wasn’t naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.” —Gypsy Rose Lee Options Original $350.00 USDLimited Edition Giclee Print 8 x 10 $75.00 USDReady to Hang Canvas 16 x 20 $199.00 USD
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My Latest Watercolor — “Backyard Bouquet”
“Backyard Bouquet” 24″ x 30″ Watercolor and graphite on handmade paper Original Watercolor $750.00 12″ x 16″ Museum Quality Limited Edition Giclee Print $99.00 16″ x 20″ Museum Quality Limited Edition Giclee Print $149.00 12″ x 16″ Ready to Hang Canvas $199.00 16″ x 20″ Ready to Hang Canvas $239.00 “I don’t have to take…