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PSOAE 2025

by [email protected] | May 7, 2025 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, World View

Let there be Light! I invite you to find me at the corner of Calhoun and Meeting during the Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibition in Marian Square, a fabulous festival of great art by top artists in the south. Myself and 52 other great artists will be there in person...

Patrick Duffy Portrait

by [email protected] | Mar 21, 2025 | Fine Art, Portraiture, Random Favorites

This past St Patrick’s day was the big annual event at the Hibernia Society in Charleston. The Irish centered organization is a society, not a club, and is not affiliated with the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH). A National Historic Landmark, the Hibernian...

A Better Way

by [email protected] | Feb 22, 2025 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Random Favorites, World View

America has been egging for a real knock down, drag out existential crisis since the end of WWII. Civil rights, Watergate, the Cold War, the World Trade Center attack, not to mention the collective unresolved guilt of ignoring the genocide of indigenous people and...

Falling Leaves

by [email protected] | Jan 10, 2025 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites

A Grandma’s love I’m very excited to show another recent commission. This one from a bunch of photos taken by a proud grandma. In this case, Cheryle gave me many options and said “surprise me.” I have found, the more latitude a client provides...

The Last Supper in Haiti

by [email protected] | Oct 14, 2024 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, World View

It was confirmed for me yesterday that the Watermission compound in Porta Prince, Haiti, where I painted the Last Supper mural fell out of their hands in 2023, when they abandoned the property and the country was taken over by gangs. This was part of my work on The...

Kurtis T. Wilder Investiture at Washtenaw County Courthouse

by [email protected] | Jun 16, 2024 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites

Grateful for the positive response my second portrait of Judge Kurt Wilder received at the portrait’s investiture at the Washtenaw County Courthouse in Ann Arbor, MI last week. I made a quick trip to Detroit to be present for this monumental event. My unveiling...

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