Poppy Explosion

This weekend is cold and barren. We're deep in the heart of winter and I was missing spring, so, I decided to paint flowers. This is the first painting and I will do and impasto of yellow and orange daisies tomorrow. Hope this brings you some hope for spring in the bitter cold.

Lila, Chastity

Today in honor of Jackson Pollock's birthday, some friends and I got together and painted. Lila is the painting that I chose to do. She is very modest and almost didn't come forth, what with all those people around today. My friend Michele took pictures and perhaps she will post them on her blog, http://www.micheleleeart.com/. Happy Birthday Jackson.

Aida, The Offering

Molto Bella

This is my Bella. She was an inspiration on sat and through much joy and exasperation came into being through some frenzied sketch work, on sunday. She was painted on monday and is now here for all to see. She is a study of the female form.

The Jazz Singer Series

Let me introduce you to Billie Holiday, a woman who has all but possesed me this past week. I felt a strong desire to get to know her and this was the result, The Jazz Singer, series. This first painting is called simply, The Jazz Singer.

I was listening to Billie Holiday sing while painting this one and finished her on the song, Stars Fell on Alabama, so that's her name here, Stars Fell on Alabama.

This painting portrays an older, heavier, yet somehow wiser Billie. She really knows the blues now, so this one is entitled, Lady Sings The Blues.

Billie

I ended this series with this front on portrait of Ms, Holiday, and call it simply, Billie.

That's it, I hope you all enjoy this series, I know that I got imense pleasure from paintng it.

If you would like to have any of these paintings or the collection in whole, just let me know, we'll work out the details.

The Jazz Singer series

I am currently working on a new series entitled , The Jazz Singer.
Should have some posts of them by weekend, so stayed tuned.

Screamin Pain

This painting was done while my left hip was in red hot screamin pain from arthritis. If anyone has ever experienced joint pain they can relate to this abstract representation.