Almost Burned

One of my favorite methods that I learned in art school was this particular way of putting down lots of  oil paint from a limited palette, using jabbing like strokes, let it dry and then find something in that paint that looks like something, and paint it out. Kind...

Roselawn Dr. Morgan City, LA

When all I had was my kitchen corner to paint in I could also cook dinner while I worked on a large 30 x 36 inch canvas on my easel! I young then and had a lot of energy and was eager to get this particular painting done to put in an up-coming show.  It was the show...

Church Grave Yard

I don’t remember where I took this photo of an old weathered church with a grave yard in the back area, but I just knew that one of my methods of using oil paints would do great for the effect that I wanted. It is an oil painting, using what my mentor called the...

Kitchen Corner

In the early 1970’s we were new in town, (Morgan City. LA), in a new place, and the kids were in school and I was eager to get some painting done. All I had was the corner of my small kitchen with a window of southern light. In this photo, taken by the local...

Seeing the Color of Light

My most valuable lessons where by Henry Hensche who came to the south to teach at the art school I was attending. Here I am with Henry critiquing my work. I was taught how to see the color of light, and you would think it was easy by just painting simple colored...