After doing a bunch of long, drawin out larger works, it perks one up to do some quick smaller ones. These are 'one-day' paintings - in that the bulk of the work is laid down in one day - from drawing to painting.
That just leaves a few hours left to do some refining touch-ups and glazes, after the basic coat has cured.
1-Palace Of Fine Art, San Francisco
2-Parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal
3-Alamo Square, San Francisco
New painting, finally finished.
'Girl At The Opera Garnier'
Oil on gessoed wood panel.
12 x 21 inches
2025
This painting will be in my new solo show at O'Connor Gallery, opening October 24th, 2025.
Painting details, from the interior of the Palais Garnier, Paris.
Goodness, this thing is complex! One aspect of painting I really enjoy is that the act of painting it makes you really look at it.
The Palais Garnier is breathtaking just about anywhere you look in it. But I can't believe the amount of detail and finesse in even the smallest parts. The level of artistry and skill employed, and the recognition of it all adding up to a unified whole is gobsmacking.
I've been painting cities this last little while, and hadn't done a portrait for some time. This one took a while to polish up properly, but I think it all worked out.
It's got an unusual title, but - there ya go.
'April Morning, Rue Saint Vincent'
Oil On Canvas
16 x 24"
2025
This painting will also be in my upcoming October 2025 show, at O'Connor Gallery in Gananoque, ON.
Working away. Gosh, this thing is complicated.
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....And more, and more details....!
...though quickly roughing in the figures was more fluid and enjoyable...
I love when the first bits of painting start to reveal all the supra-normal clarity the initial drawing can bring.
Love it!
I love the drawing part, the beginning part, of starting out on a new painting. I love the clarity of drawing too - it's its own world.
This one will be of a view of the Eiffel Tower from The Trocadero...my first sight of it, this year.
Six Little Paris Paintings
Each of them are oil paintings, 8x 10 inches, on a mounted and gessoed wood panel.
They're available through the O'Connor Gallery in Gananoque
Le Maison Rose
I'm doing some little 8x10" paintings of Paris. They're quick and lighthearted, and a nice change of pace after the last big three complex New York ones.
A pale ground on a gesso panel, then just a framework of a drawing to guide the paint.
Near The Bateau-Lavoir
Oil On Gessoed Panel 16 x 24" (40.5 x 61cm) 2025
Three new New York paintings!
Each of them are 3'x5' (90 x 150cm)
Oil on canvas, with a touch of liquin.
They're available at O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque, ON
Manhattan From The Brooklyn Bridge
