Studio

My painting space has an easel, a table with paints, brushes, palettes and water spray bottles.  The paints are on the wall in a clear shoe storage unit for easy visual and access to color. (See at right).

The room is equipped with a drafting table for preliminary setting up of canvas drawings as well as post-painting  final preparations, such as varnishing, back information and hanging apparatus.

Shipping my art around the world has become a business all it's own.  I have shipping boxes in various sizes and pack the art tightly and securely for long distance travel.  All art is shipped from the United States Postal Service and insurance is taken out on each original piece.

Canvas

All my paintings are created on Gallery Canvases, which are 

1 1/2 inches deep.  You do not have to frame them unless you want.

The sides are painted in a color that compliments the colors within the art.

The canvas size for each painting is located on their respective pages, which you can access from the Gallery pages.

All finished paintings are ready to be hung.  When I ship a painting you can just unwrap it, hassle-free and hang it immediately.

Written on the back is the title of the piece, a copyright notice with the date of completion. The medium, which is always acrylic, is  posted there as well.

All paintings are created with Acrylics.  I use several brands depending on the colors that are offered. Pearl, Daler Rowney, Windsor & Newton and Liquitex are some of the brands.

Warm tones are the basis of all my paintings, using other cool colors to add intensity and drama to a piece.

My paint tubes are visible in the shoe storage unit hanging on the wall above my working table.  This great discovery makes it very easy to pick and choose colors as I am working.

All of the men in my paintings are unique creations.  I have a vast collection of images that I use to create my models.  They are categorized by body position, angles, facial  movements from up, down, 45 degree angle, profile, back, also sitting, standing, squatting, foreshortened, etc.  I combine 2-3 images to create the model that I intend to paint.  

Once I have the model created, I draw it on canvas and begin painting.  While in the painting process, I often change characteristics such as hair color, body fur, eye position, hand position. etc.  Backgrounds just come as I am painting and create them in the moment.

In the end, I always strive for a very masculine figure that is mature and sexy!