Every once in a while I get inspired by an image of a beautiful creature that I paint in order to explore its beauty even more. This is a fairly accurate rendition of a photo… Read More »Livingstone’s Turaco, I Presume
16 x 20, oil on canvas by Barbara Bose A friend snapped a blurry photo recently, while zooming on a scooter past a market in Morocco. I wanted to paint this lady’s beautiful gesture, captured… Read More »The Great Beauty
This large painting is from a photo I took of my backyard. I liked the simplicity of the composition and how all four elements are captured in the lower half – reflected sun, water, reflected… Read More »Sun Dog
Circa 1983: Posed as an attractive American swinging single, I sat down on one of the bouncy couches in the lobby of the timeshare condo. Everything looked in the state of still-being-built. Condo salespeople came… Read More »Free*
1988: On the night before my new job was to start I decided to clean up my art studio and clear out some old vibrations. It was a nice, clear night in Miami Beach and… Read More »Stayin’ Alive
This is an only slightly retouched photo (believe it or not) . I added the face with my phone stylus, had it printed to canvas, then colorized with oil tints over the image to enhance… Read More »Needs Must
There is a universal language we all speak fluently regardless of time, place, identity, religion, regardless of everything.
This is a digital piece comprised of part of a painting of mine and some heavily filtered photos. I think I am getting to the end of my seriously bummed out phase and getting ready… Read More »Departure Lounge
This is an oil and Sharpie painting on masonite. It was a fun and challenging surface to paint on, and actually quite forgiving but also scratchable so it is behind a thick piece of plexiglass.… Read More »A Prayer
