New beginning of a brand New Year, starting off with some fresh paint on the canvas, each painting is a new beginning anyways, creativity pushes the envelope with each new piece of art, its an ever changing ever evolving process.

Standing female nude figure with an ethereal twist to it, standard palette used, as for most of my figures, for the flesh tones: white, lemon yellow, cad red, alizarin crimson and ultramarine blue, for the darks in the background a

The advantage of living here in Southern California is the scenery + the weather: painter’s paradise, eyes get drawn instinctively to the vibrant colors of the coastline, different variations of blues dominate the ocean and the sky, my job as

I’ve had a few requests for male portraits lately so I thought I should get on the easel and paint some, I don’t always plan ahead what I’m gonna paint next, its more of a go with the flow thing,

It might look like I’m intentionally going for a minimalist approach here but not really, it’s the simplicity of objects that’s appealing to me, less is more, delicately balancing the values between the white tones, composition centers in the middle,