In Memoriam

Jeanne was a great looking lady, she worked as a professional model in Detroit for many years

Ouch !!!!

I'm having a gout attack in both my hands as well as my feet. I won't be able to post for a couple of days or won't be able to drive anywhere.

New Book Cover

A Canadian publisher, Dundurn, recently contacted me about using one of my paintings for a book cover. It was a painting of Makola Market in Ghana that I did after visiting the country. Below is the original painting.

January was a tough month !

It was cold and our area had lots of snow in January. My furnace went out twice and I spent a lot of time in front of the fireplace. I went out to buy a space heater and hit a big pothole resulting in a flat tire ! Maybe this month will be better. It was very pretty outside though, but I've had enough of winter.

Remembering an old friend

Don Silverstein was a great artist and long time friend. I worked with him when he started at Allied Artists in Detroit sometime around 1948. Don was a wildman and did some terrific artwork. He eventually worked in London, New York City and even spent 10 years in Tokyo. His wife, Sakiko, has just published a book"Don Silverstein", showing his amazing work, it's available at Amazon.com.

Digital sketches for a painting

For my recent series of acrylic paintings I have done my preliminary color sketches on the computer. Below are some of the interesting color variations that I developed on the computer in a short time, something that would be very time consuming if done using traditional mediums. My first sketch done using Photoshop Elements 3.0 on a Mac computer. This is a negative version of the same image. Another color variation. Having fun with color. Still another variation. On this version I changed the proportions of the first sketch to see what that would look like. The finished acrylic painting done on canvas.

10 Years with Gloria

I met Gloria on the internet 10 years ago and we've been dating ever since, she's a great, fun gal, I'm really happy to have found her, well, she actually found me on Yahoo Personals. She lives 100 miles away in Grand Rapids, so we haven't been able to get together much recently with all the snow, but Spring will come soon. We usually go to Puerto Vallarta, but can't manage that this year.