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
There is a universal language we all speak fluently regardless of time, place, identity, religion, regardless of everything.
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
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
This is my rendition of a beautiful photograph I saw in the New York Times by Dmitry Kokh. I painted it because I related to it, not to sell it or rip off Mr. Kokh.… Read More »Abandoned
This is a large oil painting about the importance of my new cat, who is an oasis of love and life in a time of turmoil. My old cat recently passed away at the age… Read More »Requiescat
Niobe’s Shadow This large oil painting includes a reference in the background to the Greek mythological figure Niobe, whose weeps forever over the loss of her children. Cursed by the gods because of her father’s… Read More »Niobe’s Shadow
