Acrylic on canvas board
16″ x 20″

Detail (second image) after Bellotto’s Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe, above the Augustusbrucke.

7.5″ x 10″
Oil on masonite
Audio from Daniel Dennet’s Magic of Consciousness presentation.

A few sketches from life (death, actually). The first batch are very quick outlines done while playing with a camera lucida. The last one was done by eye, over an hour or so, using a rough approximation of Sight-Size method.

A few of my figure paintings from life, by eye, in acrylic and oil. I did these in Beverly Bledsoe’s Life Painting courses at Otis College of Arts and Design.

Akkadian Lion
86″ x 45″ x 4.5″
Wood, paint

A loose line drawing of an Akkadian artifact—a small trinket depicting a lion—faintly peeking out from the multicolored backdrop.

Abstract paintings in acrylic and latex on canvas and canvas board. Sizes range from 11″ x 14″ to 30″ x 22″.

This video shows my process from my original photograph of the Vatican museum’s bust of Claudius, through photo editing, to layout in pencil, and painting in acrylic on canvas (36″ x 48″). The recital of Robert Graves’ “The Sibyl’s Prophecy” is from I, Claudius, BBC, 1976.