New Painting: Maintenance Workers, Eiffel Tower

 New painting, finally finished.

Maintenance Workers, Eiffel Tower Oil On Canvas 5 x 3 feet (150 x 90 cm) 2025 This painting will be in my upcoming solo show at O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque, October 24, 2025.

A New Painting

'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.

Damn You, Napoleon III !

 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.

Oh! Well, suddenly, this is looking marblelous! (ba-dum-*cha*!)

Finally!

 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.

Ken, A.G.A.T.T., RR#14 (All Gear All The Time)
Oil On Canvas
24x30 inches
2025

At O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque, ON, Canada.

...And Another New Painting!

'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.

A New Painting.

 

'My First Trocadero'

Oil On Canvas

18x30 inches

2025

This painting will be included in my upcoming show at O'Connor Gallery, in October 2025.

Studio Shot. July 26, 2025

 

Details, Details....

 

Workin' on my Trocadero...

Details, Details...

 Working away. Gosh, this thing is complicated.

....And more, and more details....!

...though quickly roughing in the figures was more fluid and enjoyable...

A Lovely Moment

 I love when the first bits of painting start to reveal all the supra-normal clarity the initial drawing can bring. 

Love it!

Well, This One's Complicated

Another new painting on the way...and lots of drawing atop the base coat to get it ready.

 

Drawing....

 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

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

Le Chat Noir

Le Train Bleu

Maillol, Tuileries

Morning, Place de Clichy

Morning, Rue de Chevalier de la Barre

Painting Preparation...

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.

Ugh! This one! Do something complicated to see how you pull it off, I thought. It'll be fun, I thought. Ack.

Hooo boy.

A Painting Of Paris!

 Near The Bateau-Lavoir

Oil On Gessoed Panel 16 x 24" (40.5 x 61cm) 2025

At O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque

Three New Paintings Of New York City

 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

In The Skyscraper Museum

By Manhattan Bridge

Studio Shots, Things In Progress

 

Making Cities

 In progress ..

Making Cities

 Painting New York, At Night.

Detail, In Progress...

Palettes