Thanks to David O’Dell, I have many photos of the people of Colonial Williamsburg with which to practice my art. This man looked very serene and content. This is 11×14 oils on canvas.

Here is a little charcoal still life that I did one morning after cleaning and re-arranging my studio/florida room. It has been too hot to work out there, so I have been painting in the living room. We have a white berber carpet and I have already had to clean up a blob of ultramarine blue paint off the carpet. Thankfully, with some solvent and clorox spray, it came up and you can’t tell where it was.


Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. — George Washington