Here’s my finished watercolor of Tyler, busy at his desk. If he appears large in this painting, that’s because Tyler is large. He’s a 6′8″ former football player who’s now a practicing lawyer.  So if you want to impress your opponents in court, he’s your man.
This 20″x28″ painting was a lot tougher than I thought [...]

On July 21 I started a painting of a little boy nicknamed “The Juice” (his initials are O.J.).  He’s the young son of Lars, friend of mine from college, one of those ruddy blond children with dimples on every joint.  His face was one of the most difficult I’ve ever painted.  [...]

On Day 2 I painted a couple of taxidermied deer heads and a bass on the wall behind The Juice. These items were a veritable walk in the park compared with his face, but they took hours to paint as well. I really think they make this portrait strange, awesome, and kind of [...]

Above: a little boy nicknamed The Juice.  This is part of a much larger painting wherein The Juice is getting a haircut in a barbershop surrounded by taxidermy (deer, fish). In the painting, his entire head is much smaller than what you see here–it’s more like three inches tall. The painting was very difficult (6 hours on [...]