This past Easter Sunday I attended the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) Easter message from the brand new Pope Francis. I’m staying quite close to the Vatican, so I had to go. It was crowded, apparently a quarter million people, but it felt very special to be there, despite that … Continue reading »
On March 4th, 2013, I landed at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. I admit it was a relatively sudden move for me. I had spent most of 2012 in Maine and then had returned to Chicago and later North Carolina. My restoration work had been slowing down and I decided to realize one of my dreams: to … Continue reading »
July 27 through Aug.11, 2012, I’ll have four paintings for sale at the Finnegan’s Farm Reunion Show at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. This is a show for students at the Lyme Academy that stayed at the Weekend house of Patricia O’Shaughnessy and Tom during our schooling. Fremont, Australia Town Square, Oil on … Continue reading »
Last week I installed the two finished saint panels at St. Francis de Sales church in Paducah, Kentucky. This was a commission to do two paintings of saints for a side altar or “Remebrance Niche.”The basic idea was created by Friar Mark Joseph Costello, a Chicago based Capuchin Friar who serves as a liturgical consultant … Continue reading »
I am making some progress on the two saint panels I was commissioned to paint for St.Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Paducah, KY. The ochre color surrounding the painting will eventually be painted trompe l’oiel frames. St. Francis de Sales and Saint Jane de Chantel. Each About 18 by 38 inches. Continue reading »
Here is a link to a national database for life drawing venues: http://www.artmodelbook.com/figure-drawing-directory.htm Continue reading »
I recently worked on an installation from The Louis Sullivan Show at the Chicago Cultural Center. I painted some rose laurels very carefully over my friend Tony Kartsonas’ beautiful stenciling who also managed the job. The mural was a re-creation of a decoration from the Sullivan designed (and now demolished) Garrick Theater. The show was … Continue reading »
I recently was spotted painting on the street by journalists from “Time Out Chicago” magazine. Article by Jake Malooley with a photograph by Andrew Nawrocki. Check out the article here. Continue reading »
Well I have arrived in Cambodia. It is a bit nerve-racking to cross the border, mainly because of bad reports about the constant hassle by hustlers the work the border crossing and it is Cambodia for god’s sake!. Here it was fairly minor. It cost about $15 to bribe the border guard to give us … Continue reading »
I have been about a month in Thailand and it is about time I posted. I arrived in Bangkok On January 7 . I have spent about two weeks in Bangkok and 10 days in Chumpon visiting my uncle and about a week at an old Thai archeological site called Sukothai, a bit north of here. First … Continue reading »
I have arrived Friday, Jan. 8 in Bangkok. A long but uneventful flight. I arrived a my hotel about 3 in the morning and went out to the street for some dinner. Bangkok is a busy place and I was inadvertently in the red-light district. I had never been so “popular” with the “girls’ in … Continue reading »
Recently I was informed that I have been awarded a commission to do a mural in the Westown neighborhood of Chicago. They were looking for street scenes from their area to be painted underneath a Union-Pacific train bridge just west Chicago and Halstead. My theme is a “Utopian vision of an alternative future” where the … Continue reading »
ArtPrize, created by Rick DeVos, a grandson of both the cofounder of Amway and the founder of the Prince Corp is apparently establishing a kind of huge scale people’s choice competition in Grand Rapds, MI. A few years ago I helped paint a Richard Haas designed Mural there and am thinking about creating another public … Continue reading »
