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Gallery One

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

One of the few landscapes that I have painted. Untitled Oil on Canvas, 1982 11 x 14

This is the first painting of a series of four.  It's an abstract based on fish patterns.  This pattern is based on a clownfish. The other three will be based on clown tang, clown trigger and lionfish. They are works in progress.

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 painting is in two parts, it is a lighthouse in the night, the second part of the painting isn't finished.  I doubt that it will ever be finished.  I came across this painting recently after spending a decade at the bottom of a desk drawer.

This is my first attempt of a portrait, based on Olivia Newton-John's album cover Physical.  I chose this cover based on an article about her. The article is based on a myth of a blond goddess riding on a dolphin from the sea.  In certain cultures she was consider this goddess.

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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