oil portraits

Oil Portrait Painting of Brother & Sister

August 27, 2011

A brother and sister for my next oil portrait painting. Hmm. How to portray them? Here’s the background story: After discussing with me what she wanted, the mother showed me the clothes she had picked out for her hero and heroine. Dark blue and shinny bright pink. Terrific. Plus these colors would fit into the [...]

Children Oil Portraits for Mother’s Day

April 7, 2011

What mother wouldn’t delight in a portrait oil painting of her children on Mother’s Day? When Dave saw a clip on TV where I showed the client-artist experience of producing a child’s oil portrait, he conceived his idea— three beautiful blonde daughters captured in an oil portrait painting as a gift for his wife. After [...]

My brush with $45 Million

April 26, 2010

UCLA was building a Genetic Research Center. Funds were in place, thanks to the largest single donation the university had yet received—from Leslie and Susan Gonda. The Director of Development, Ms. Paula Golden, had done her usual bang-up job. However, being more than thorough, she was on the lookout for yet another, even personal way [...]

Publishers’ Portrait… Published

April 19, 2010

Painting the publishers of the Tampa Bay Magazine—Aaron R. Fodiman and Margaret Word Burnside—was different. They had had a few portraits done of themselves and were very casual about letting the artist have free reign and it added to their collection to have a Norman Rockwell cousin do the honors. I chose to portray them [...]

Hello, World

March 28, 2010

This is a portrait that I did recently of a little boy at the beach. Yes, he is a cutie pie and I appreciated his cooperation to be photographed for my reference shots. However, another really wonderful thing about this portrait is that this is the last of 6 grandchildren that I painted for his [...]