George is an interesting person. He was a chemical engineer for much of his working life but then due to economic circumstances in New York City he went back and became a teacher in New Jersey. Eventually being a principal at an elementary school which looked out at the World Trade Center in New York. His school’s children had many parents lost in the 9/11 attack.

Painted in oil on 10 by 8 inch panel

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Sized to fit frame for 8 x 10 inch image

completed at Park Hill Art Club Open sessions

Jennifer would pose with her long hair down but this time hair is up. A quick oil study I do not know any of her history to relate.

Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel

Sale price is $25 unframed

Any frame for an 8 by 10 image is suitable. No glass needed

Painted at Park Hill Art Club open session

Jessie loves to dress dapper and stylish. His lively hood was as a shoe shine man. He always wears a hat when he poses. Jessie is a fixture in his community and downtown Denver.

Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel.

Sale price is $35 unframed

Here the painting is produced at the Park Hill Art Club as Jessie poses.

Oil sketch of Hilary with her bright red hair and fair skin. What little we know of her is she was a dog groomer and had the attitude to fit, pleasant, nice, kind and caring.

Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel

Sale price is $35 unframed

Painted at the Park Hill Art Club

It is spring time and so the patterned shirt and the hat. Every time I see someone wearing this style of head wear I am reminded of speaking to an Englishman up in the Lake District and his calling this style a “flt it”. So now I know he was meaning a flat hat. Jessie was a task to paint due to his complexion as I painted on a white panel. There was no chance to tone the panel to make the pigment cover well over the white.

Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel

Sale price is $35 unframed

Does not need glass.

Noel, the little French girl. Well actually she is from Denver but studied French and also went to the University of Denver where I met her as she fulfilled her role as student monitor. Her French story was sort of a disaster for her. She went over to Toulouse France for a year at the university but the students decided to have a strike. So she could not go to school but at least she spent her year in France. Quite an attractive young lady.

Oil on 8 by 10 inch panel

Sale price is $45 unframed

Does not need glass

Stephanie is a very attractive person. She is now working at the University in New Zealand as a geologist on some theoretical project.

Portrait painted in the summer of 2016. In oil on Belgium linen, framed. Image size is 20 inch height and 16 inch width.

Painted using the French Academy process with careful charcoal drawing completed first (not shown) then a cartoon of drawing is made and this is transferred to the canvas.

Price is $1000 framed

Souvenier’s name gives a hint of her French Caribbean heritage. She had her hair piece arranged to completely cover her hair. She is by her appearance tall and thin and willowy.

Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel

Sale price is $35 unframed

No glass needed

This very athletic lite and nimble young lady had a regular job but would take time out to pose. Her appearance as well as her poses were a beauty to see. She is now working in the art world in New York City.

Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel

Sale price is $55 unframed

Does not need glass when framed

Beatrix had this long hair that when it fell had complex spiraling curves as it fell. The contrast in this small oil piece between her glowing complexion and hair and her cooler scarf which allowed her warm features to pop. Having a greenish cool background also adds to that contrasting pop.

Oil sketch on 5 inch by 7 inch panel

Sale price is $30 unframed

done at Park Hill Art Club.

Brandi had a blouse that was pulled down so the painting could achieve a sort of look of a transparent white laying thinly over her frame. Her hair was somewhat unraveled and was like a complement to the wavy top edging of the blouse.

Oil sketch 5 inch by 7 inch size on panel.

Sale price is $25 unframed

painted at Park Hill Art Club.

I never caught the name of this girl as she posed but only for one time. It was spring and she was comfortable posing. She had long slowing hair. Painting this portrait along with the others is fascinating in how our features can be so totally unique yet all fall into the very tight rules of placement no matter the person. All people fulfill the placement rules no matter the face is tall, narrow, wide or squat.

Oil sketch painted on 8 inch by 10 inch panel.

Sale price is $35 unframed

Painted at Art Studios in Boulder, CO. Quick sketch with one time sitting.

Patrica is an outdoor lady. She runs or bikes everywhere and is in the elements no matter the time of year or weather. She is old enough to have grandchildren. I am not certain they partake in this more energetic life style she has chosen. Her hair can be windblown, her checks always rosy due to her being outside so much. A quick sketch of older model and her hair is incomplete because the pose was cut short.

Oil sketch on 6 inch by 8 inch panel.

Sale price is $35 unframed

Painted at Park Hill Art Club.

Loni has a face that is long and thin and drawn out with compact lips, thin nose which is starkly different. Faces are most interesting and gives a glimpse back into time and her ancestry as it moves to her present.

Painted in oil on 8 inch by 10 inch panel.

Sale price is $35 unframed

Painted at Art Studios in Boulder, CO. Oil sketch.

I was looking at small photo images in black and white that were made in the 1860s until the 1900s. This photo of Man Packs the Eagle was taken in the late 1860s and he was an active brave of the Sioux tribe, which band was not recorded. I interpreted his face paint and buckskin jacket, peace pipe with what their colors were then but I added the trade goods cloth wrapping in blue and red as a color that most likely would have appealed to him. Blue could not be obtained with natural pigments from plants as was the custom.

Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel

Sale price is $125 unframed

From the age of White Calf the photo of him was taken about the 1880s. He strikes a pose that is so typical of the Indian and is an emblem of his heritage. I remember the Indian head nickel of old and his features and profile pose remind me of that coin. As is most of the time of these photos taken to record what is still there then and would vanish soon very little is known of the Indian posing for posterity other than perhaps name and tribe.

Oil painting on 8 x 10 inch panel

Sale price is $125 unframed

Yellow Buffalo Bull is decked out with feather and scarf and metal medallions around his neck. Still wearing buckskin shirt the only clue about him is his graying hair which suggests a date the photo was taken many years after his warring pursuits. The painting is an interpretation of a photo taken in 1910.

painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel

Sale price is $135 unframed

Painted at Park Hill Art Club of Deija. Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel.

Painted Jamuary 9, 2019

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Painted at Park Hill Art Club. Portrait of George painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel. Painted in fall of 2018.

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Painted at Park Hill Art Club in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel. painted in fall of 2018.

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Painted at Park Hill Art Club in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel. Painted on September 9th, 2018.

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Painted at Park Hill Art Club in oil on 6 by 8 inch panel. Painted in fall of 2018.

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Painted at Park Hill Art Club in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel. Painted in fall of 2018. Sale price is $35 unframed.

Painted at Park Hill Art Club in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel. Painted in January of 2019.

Sale price is $35 unframed.

June is painted at a session at the Park Hill Art Club in the fall of 2018. Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel.

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Painted at Park Hill Art Club in oil on 6 by 8 inch panel.

Sale price is $35 unframed

Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel at Park Hill Art Club. She is a most pleasant person, very personable and friendly. She is thrilled to have us paint her portrait. her Thai background, accent adds a bit of that oriental touch.

Sale price $45 unframed.

Danielle posed at the Park Hill Art Club which is close by and an opportunity to paint a person from life. The oil studies are usually around 2 and a half hours or less in length.

Painted in oil on 10 by 8 inch panel.

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Sized to fit frame for 8 by 10 inch image

Yee is a slight woman who came from Taiwan. This is the first portrait of her. Painted at Park Hill Art Club.

Painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel.

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Frame with 8 by 10 inch.

This is my second portrait of Yee and have found out a little more about her coming to the United States from her home country of Taiwan. She is an adventurous traveler and having seen Europe, the countries close to her home she decided to come to the States and settled on Denver because she loved the mountains. She makes her livelihood modeling which is a task since she does not drive living in Capital Hill with its dirth of parking.

Painted in oil on 10 by 8 inch panel.

Sale price is $35 unframed.

Sized to fit frame fro 8 by 10 inch image.

Painted at Park Hill Art Club

Hannah is from Thailand and models at the Park Hill Art Club so that I have the opportunity in the 3 hours allotted to paint a portrait.

Painted on 8 by 10 panel in oil

Sale price is $150.00

He modeled at the Park Hill Art Club in the short 3 hour time allotted and painted Raul in oil on 8 by 10 panel. He is from Latin America and has an affinity toward the Indian cultures there. Thus is where his hat came from in Peru.

Sale price is $150.00