I’ve been getting more inquiries about commissions lately, so my husband has been bugging me about getting better information on the website.  Now I know why I have been putting off improving my site: I’m no computer programmer and I suck at Photoshop.  I know I don’t have information about my process on there yet, [...]

The last couple of Fridays I’ve been painting these three-hour short portraits with my friend Kristin at Rob Zeller’s school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, The Teaching Studios of Art (she is a teacher there).  They have a nice set up there with a lot of bounced light, so it feels really airy and certainly very different [...]

I haven’t been posting this month too much because of some family things that have been keeping me busy, but last week I did get to paint my friend, the art historian Ross Finocchio.  Ross is working on a dissertation of Henry Clay Frick and his collection.

This is a four-hour short portrait I did of Maya Rock, a writer based in New York. Maya is currently working on a novel, and is a freelance essayist who has written articles about her mixed heritage (click here for an article).

Renee is almost 13. It was wonderful painting a beautiful young girl for four hours.  I have a pretty nice life.

This portrait is an uncanny resemblance to Megan Fox!

My good friend, Wilmot Kidd, artist, philosopher, photographer, screenwriter, cinematographer, nature enthusiast and all around angelic human being, sat for a 3.5 hour-ish portrait right before Thanksgiving.  He has shown the iPhoto picture to friends, who have responded: “Russian, writer, poet, aristocratic dissident, Confederate general.” I couldn’t find my trusty “beard” brush (a beat-up old [...]

This is a portrait I did this week of my friend Kristin, who is a doctor.  I heightened the highlights on her chin and forehead after she left and they dried a little more chromatic than I would have liked.  Oh well. This happens every time I use maroger in the painting and then forget [...]

Kristin’s mother, Joyce, generously posed for us the other week.