Norman Rockwell

Children Oil Portraits: Two Little Angels

May 12, 2010

… when we ended up in the gazebo, I knew we had the right spot. Even the sun was amazingly cooperative. Strong lights that rimmed the sides of their bodies. Yes!

A Self-Portrait in the Nick of Time

May 3, 2010

Suddenly I realized that I had reached 40 with no oil portrait of myself. Hmmh. Once someone mentioned painting the old mug, but I didn’t like his “realistic” approach.

Publishers’ Portrait… Published

April 19, 2010

Painting the publishers of the Tampa Bay Magazine—Aaron R. Fodiman and Margaret Word Burnside—was different. They had had a few portraits done of themselves and were very casual about letting the artist have free reign and it added to their collection to have a Norman Rockwell cousin do the honors. I chose to portray them [...]

Hello, World

March 28, 2010

This is a portrait that I did recently of a little boy at the beach. Yes, he is a cutie pie and I appreciated his cooperation to be photographed for my reference shots. However, another really wonderful thing about this portrait is that this is the last of 6 grandchildren that I painted for his [...]

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