Figure Drawings and Paintings (Nudes)

Welcome to my gallery. I have always been an avid life-drawing attendee and painter of nudes. Early on, I loved the challenge of capturing, in as little as 30 seconds or as long as two-to-three hours, the form of a live model, whether nude or draped.

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Portraits

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Still Life Paintings

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I Love You Too, I Love You Three Slinging Paint Part 2

Technique After some experimentation with new materials, I fell back on my tried and true method. Using a fine semi-transparent rag paper, which is pretty great all-round for pastels, markers, and colored pencils.  First, assembly-line style, I ruled the paper to 125% of the book’s size. (Always work larger than the final print size.) This paper…

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The cutting edge! The Literary Titan Book Award for Mystery/Suspense goes to The Knife Thrower’s Wife.

A HUGE thank you to the folks at Literary Titan for their unending dedication to books, authors, publishers, and booksellers! And an additional gigantic thank you for bestowing the Literary Titan Book Award for Mystery-Suspense to The Knife Thrower’s Wife. —Thanks for stopping by!Score your copy of The Knife Thrower’s Wife Check out more Novels…

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