All of my paintings are oil paint on stretched or un-stretched canvas. Every painting starts off as a preliminary sketch. Preliminaries are usually pencil sketches, but recent ones have been a pencil, digital combination. I project the sketch onto the canvas and pencil it out. My first layer of paint is a thin coat of acrylic because of the fast drying time. I then complete it with additional layers of oil paint over a few studio sessions. I mix walnut alkyd medium with the oil paint to speed up the drying time (as quick as 12 hours) and to give the painting a wet paint look when it is dry. When the oil painting is completed and dry it is sprayed with a semi-gloss intermediate varnish, it’s edges are painted black and the canvas is wired on the back for hanging on walls.

I’ve been creating artwork since I was 7 years old. The first decade I was into cartooning, creating comic strips and books. I began acrylic and oil painting in 1987. I painted realism and impressionism until the mid 1990′s when I shifted towards surrealism, abstract imagery. The women portrait paintings began in 2001. Today I am still painting the women and new abstracts.

This is a rare realism portrait I’ve painted. It’s based on source material of a woman I found online, but the painted image was modified so it didn’t actually look like her. So, beautiful Serina is fictional, like all other women paintings I produce for myself. Despite the positive results of this painting, my best paintings are the ones that come entirely from my imagination, rather than from any source material. This painting is a small 16 x 20 inches and is for sale.

This painting of a young girl sitting outdoors in the garden having tea is one of my earliest. My early artwork paintings were influenced by realism and impressionism art. It wasn’t until 1996 that I eventually stumbled upon unique art styles. “Girl in Garden”, acrylic paint on canvas board, 1990, 22″x28″.

Meet Angelica, a joyful woman smiling or laughing. Sort of a glowing aura about her. A black and white art oil painting. This is a rare art style I used. Angelica is unique in that there is no other painting I’ve created similar to her. 30″x30″. 2006. Sold.

Another one of my favorite artists is Amedeo Modigliani. This woman portrait of “Marci” is my attempt to simulate his style, but give the art image a twist and paint a punk rocker girl, something he obviously wouldn’t have painted almost a century ago.