I started oil painting in 1981
, I always liked to draw, but I never felt I
was good at drawing. I bought a paint set and I set out to paint my first
painted inspired from a cover of an outdoor magazine, a buck running through
a group of birch trees. I never had an art class but I learned through
experimenting. It wasn't the best but it didn't discourage me. After a few
landscape paintings which I have since destroyed, I tried to paint portraits of people. I
found my niche and continued with portraits, and occasionally paint a landscape. ![]()
I unfurled my first painting to my grandmother, she told me her father use to paint (He worked for the Lehigh Railroad).
She showed me a few of his works that she had, and asked if I would make a copy of one of
his paintings which belonged to my uncle. It was an oil on cardboard of the house she
grew up in when she was a child. I copied his painting and she proudly hung it on
her kitchen wall. My family talks about how it skipped two generations and now I'm
the painter in the family. I Have painted a portrait for my cousin of her
children. Every time I see her, she tells me she still has it hanging in her living
room.
This is a collection of some of my work, wish I could say they are originals, but models are scarce in Williams Township and I used pictures I found in magazines and books to get inspired. What you see here is some of my best work to date, that I still have. I gave many away as gifts and wish I had a photographs of them. I don't paint as often as I use to but I still have some works that are progress. Some of them I may never finished
I always been a Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac fan, and when her album Bella Donna was released. I had to do a portrait of Stevie from the back cover of the album. Since then, I had done several of her. Of course my teenage obsession with Stevie ended but this was one painting of hers that I still have. This is not an oil painting, it's one of my second attempts with acrylics. I must not have liked acrylic because I never painted with them again.
This is a portrait of my niece Laura when she was One year old. I recently found this painting at my Mother's house. I had forgotten I done it and it appeared.
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