Live, Draw, Paint

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward... George C. Marshall Watercolor, oil, ink

Here's a broody fellow for you.  What could he be thinking?  I must match my jacket to my eye color?  I have the squarest jaw in the wor...

While I was cleaning out my car last night, I found a plant growing in my car!  Well, not quite.  I ran across this pen and ink drawing of a...

This is susch a beautiful piece from Moth Collective and The New York Times . Please watch. New York Times - Modern Love from Moth on ...

Ronnie was rapidly realizing that being a puppet master was not all it was cracked up to be. He was constantly under some repugnant, swelt...

Ohhhh, this is got to be one of my recent favorites.  It makes me laugh and I love it's bold and goofy simplicity. Cover Your Mouth W...

I first saw this on my friend Bryan's FB page. This video of Jake Weidmann, Master Penman, is so extraordinarily inspiring. It's a...

One of my favorite poets, full of grit and free of bullshit... (Source: Old Pictures Archive)

It's been so hot the past weekend, summer still sending out flares.  But if you take the time and sniff the air, you can smell that swee...

I took 3 or 4 more pictures of this as it was developing and as I layered more color, but I took them on my camera rather than my phone.  I ...

I ran across this poetic line of Franz Wright Sunday in the July/August issue of Poetry Magazine. I was intrigued that rather than the expec...

Unexpected Urban Love  I was going to call this Freaky Urban Love,  but they were looking at each other so gently,  I felt there wa...

While sitting at an art show this weekend, I filled in the traffic slowdown time on Sunday afternoon with this drawing in my sketchbook.  Fo...

If anyone is in the area, come on out for a Wine and Art walk in La Salle, IL from 4-8 p.m.  I'll be at Lock 16 Cafe tonight (Fri. ) ...

She Was a Shy Shark Until She Stepped Out of Her Shell

Tonight Caitlyn Jenner makes her series debut in "I Am Cait."  Although I posted this artwork back at the e nd of 2013 as part of...

Clay Mask Beauty Ritual Oil, oil pastel, acrylic, charcoal, paper, seed beads

Red-Capped Watcher 5" x 5.5" Oil and Ink on cardboard

Baxter Kept His Eyes of the Prize Ink and Acrylic, diamond star (ok, faux diamonds, but a prize nonetheless.)

I think I first saw Omar Sharif in Funny Girl.  He seemed dangerously sexy.  A man who kept his distance from Barbra Streisand's Fanny ...

Lost in Thought Oil, acrylic, ink on cold-press watercolor paper Walking along happily, Barnard had many disparate thoughts r...

I had a hard, hard time waking up yesterday morning.  Ironically, I started this chiquita the night before, with that almost abstract bed/b...

Today I accidentally knocked over the cutest ceramic coffee cup I had gotten around Christmas at Starbucks, and it broke--broke!--when it hi...

I rediscovered this video, having first seen it about a year ago. It couldn't have come at a more opportune time. Jim tells the story...

I'm a little in love with this sweetie pie. (-: 5" x 7"