Three A.M.

Oil on Canvas | 38″ x 38″ | 2017 The twins are a year old now and no longer wake up three or four times during the night as they did when this painting was begun. It was my role to fetch them both (even if only one woke up) and deliver them to their mother for food. They had to be on the same schedule so she had to feed them together. Then I would take them, one atRead more

A Study for Agony and Ecstasy

I am presently working on a composition based on this rather rough sketch of a woman in labor. Although I focused on her head to capture her expressions of pain and anticipation of where this is all going, the larger canvas shows her naked in a bathtub full of warm water — to ease the pain of labor which, from her expressions of agony, isn’t the most pleasurable of experiences. But then, moments later, a wave of excitement for what is toRead more

Study for Motherhood

  I’ve been working on a small series of paintings that document Karen’s journey into motherhood. This is one of the earliest studies for a larger piece I am presently working on. This was made from a sketch in some hotel room — I forget where exactly, but she was nearing the end of her pregnancy and looked so wonderfully swollen. There are other studies, like this posed one for what I hope will be the centerpiece of the series,Read more