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                                              Interlude: The Painter Cameron Ritcher In His Studio (oil, 36x24") was painted between August and November 2020. While the painting took dozens of hours to complete, in this video you can see various stages of the painting from start to finish in about 75 seconds.                                     Cameron is an artist friend here in Richmond, Virginia.  He's an abstract painter who is also a very talented musician. This painting was inspired by watching and listening to him play his trumpet while I was visiting his studio. I did some oil sketching on location.    My impression was "Jackson Pollack Meets Chet Baker", the two 1950's cultural [...]

I'm busy preparing for a new exhibit opening in May with approximately 25 new paintings, as mentioned in the August newsletter. In the meantime, some new business cards got me thinking about a previous exhibit.    Yep, that's me at my easel.   But this is only a small portion of the original painting, called Model Break (oil, 30x24", 2016). If you haven't seen the painting before, there's a lot more to it, and I'd like to share a bit of its story with you.   Model Break, oil, 30x24", 2016    I began Model Break in late December 2015. The concept began with the model alone, but eventually evolved into a quasi self-portrait and [...]