I painted my last painting of this trip yesterday, but if you were to ask me what my “crowning achievement” was, I would not hesitate to tell you it was the shipping of 16 boxes measuring 40 x 41 x 6″ via Amerijet International. I made two trips to a large hardware store to purchase six giant boxes that …

I had met Oliver the circus dog on another visit and was hoping to paint him with one of his parents. I didn’t expect him to pose because he is so young and was chasing flies, but that’s exactly what happened! In the video you will see all of this activity over time and realize why I had no …

Ideally all of my portraits would have followed this process. I would have spent the entire time with the sitter working out their position after marking the space with a viewfinder. Then I would have spent days pondering what to do with the background, so that both background and subject could work well with each other. But everything in …