Cindy's Grandaughter is finished

Finished this painting late last week. Please let me know what you think. Thanks!

Cindy's grandaughter in progress

Here is my latest commission. This is a portrait that is 24"x28". Have been struggling a little with color and conflicting styles. Sometimes I just want to lay on thick paint and other times I want to blend and make it realistic. Trying to join the two in one painting. I hope its getting there, let me know what you think.

Ali's Grandma

I just finished this painting for Alison. It is a happy portrait of her grandma. 11"x14" oil on canvas

Jewish New Year Cards

They're done. Ok, my part in them is done. They should be printed in the next few weeks and then available both online and mail order. Ill let you all know when I know. THey are using one of, or a combination of these images. There may even be a foil stamp of the sketch. Check back and Ill keep you all updated. Hopefully there will be more work like this in the near future.

Rosh Hashana Cards

Here are some of the sketches for the card designs. Please let me know what you think.

In Demand Artist

All of a sudden I am an in demand busy artist. I took a Children's book Illustration class through the Art muesum's art school. In this class we learned a lot but the most valuable was how to market and submit my work for children's books. So in the past couple weeks I sent in packets to some local publishing companies. So I was very busy with that. While I was trying to get those done I was contacted by a company in New York to do an illustration project for them. The first project was to design 1-4 concepts for Jewish New Year greeting cards with the deadline for the sketches tomorrow. I just emailed them out today, but it was really exciting to have my first real contract with a company for some illustrations. The finals for thos will be due the 30th, and they should get back to me on which ones they choose for the cards tomorrow. The same company also wants me to do an illustration for a booklet cover, that project will be coming up soon. I also am starting a childrens book project for a doctor here in town. He had a story written for a his daugter and wants to self publish it to give her. The past few days Ive been working on a sample illustration which i sent him today. We will then discuss price and a timeline. Also, my neighbor across the street has started his own web design business and has asked me to do his logo with future logo design projects to come for various clients. So needless to say its been a very busy very exciting time, not to mention all our weekend trips coming up for graduations. The image is for the children's book project.

Christopher

Heres my latest painting. This is Matthew's cousin Christopher. Acrylic background with Oil painting on Canvas Board. Please let me know what you think. Im not sure about the red background. Perhaps it wasnt the right emotion to convey? It seems like it needs a serious or passionate image. I like the way I painted Chris, perhaps on a more subdued background it would work better. Please give me your comments.

Lucero

Here is a painting of baby Lucero, I just finished it today. Please let me know what you think.


12x18
oil on canvas board

Dad

Dad
14"x18"
Oil on Canvas


Well I think its done. Im really happy with it and going to keep up with the style and see how it works for other images. I really like the texture of the background and having it show through in some areas. It kind of relates back to my portraits on wood I did years ago. You can see a few of those on my website.

new links

Ive added new interesting artlinks to the left. I will update these when I find new things that are really cool and I want to share them. There will only be 5 at a time. Enjoy!