Here’s the final image of “Jenny” which I finished the day after she turned 18.

Six months in Baltimore sounds like a long time, but it feels like a short few weeks to me.  Many have told me that one doesn’t get used to a new city or place until about the six-month mark, and for me, that has been true: things are getting better. However, the improvement in my [...]

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 [...]