Entrez

Oil   40 x 30

Chant Du Cygne

Oil   24 x 36

Sisters

Oil

30 x 24

Randy Rulz

.... well she's nice and all But i don't know if she rulz....

Oil 18 x 24

Falling Leaves

And as the sun sets on the aging homestead ...

Love In All The Right Places

Ah sweet love, endearing tenderness: "Mine," he declares, "all mine...."

Oil, 24 x 18

Screwed

My muse and I comfortably ignored the first panic utterance of my wife - after all, it was Saturday morning; I'm easy going, a kind of laid back loving husband: me and my easel were heavy into an affair of canvass and paint.  An eardrum shattering shriek registered something was possibly amiss.  "I've got a flat!  Slow leak today - tomorrow a flat!  Get it fixed!  I'm taking your car!"  And she was out the door to hunt down the family's weekend supply of food.  It was a tug of war between me, my paint-brushes and the muse.   My wife won.

After miles of back country roads and stopping here and there trying to pry open locked garage doors I was fast concluding tire doctors in the Laurentian Mountains had all gone fishing, when I happened across the only one left behind for emergency calls.  He successfully operated on my wife's ailing tire, triumphantly removed - holding it up for me to see - the two inch screw, especially designed to f--k up my morning.

Oil 24 x 18

Love Endures

....,

Oh, to shoot

My soul's full meaning into future years,

That they should lend it utterance, and salute

Love that endures, from Life that disappears !

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Oil 18 x 24

The Concierge

Fill in the blank;
Linda (my wife, cook and the one to whom I must obey) harassed me relentlessly,

"For G-d's sake, give her a smile...." She yammers.

"No! She's a Grouch" I grumble.

YES/NO  ______________ I should have made The Concierge smile???

 Appearing as the concierge of this building, she questions the motives of all who enter.

Gail Patrick

Gail Patrick (1911–1980) is cast as the spoiled, wisecracking, socialite sister in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey (1936)

Her elegant patrician beauty far and away transcends the role she was meant to play and could handily overshadow the star had it been anyone but the inimitable Carole Lombard.

Oil 24 x 20

Isaach De Bankolé

Not the poster boy for Pepsodent, this benevolent and cheerful francophone Haitian, communicates laudably, in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), OK, that title is really dumb.

Isaach's kindly character is comic relief among the pathetic mobsters, contract killers and complications.

Befitting his intellectual, compassionate spirit I introduced a chess board, he raises the checkmated king triumphantly celebrating his optimistic persona.

Oil 16 X 20

Richard Portnow

Portnow's cameo in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai  (1999) Jim Jarmusch -Director- is about to get wacked, his tough guy stare required some tweaking; I jacked up the irony by primping him  in pink satin polka-dot shorts, an earing and a tattoo his mom could be proud of.

The painting required great detachment so as not to confuse him with my bank manager....

Oil 18 x 24

Gene Ruffini

In this movie Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)-Gene's monologue is sputtered in Tourette syndrome staccato.

In any case words are unnecessary for this hambone.

As ever Gene's mug is a panic, his intimidating presence, chilling.

 Oil 18 x 24

At the Movies

This gentleman makes his all too brief appearance in a wonderful movie by Preston Sturges "Sullivan's Travels" (1941).

The setting is a negro community church temporarily converted to a movie theater and the invited mostly white cell inmates are guests for the evening (scandalous and ironic for its time)

The painted figure is sitting next to our hero who realizes that the most important necessity in life is laughter and in his state of epiphany questions himself  "Am I laughing?" 

Oil 16 x 20