Paintings With Soul

check her out, bring her home Golden, 12x12, acrylic on flat museum quality panel, available on my website . S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. 20 years ago I began painting daily, starting the pet portrait project Painting a Dog a Day. Over the years I developed a uniquely distinctive style and fresh approach that was eagerly collected by thousands. Yup, that’s not a typo. Shortly into the project things went viral and I had an 18 month long wait list for my daily paintings - it took me a loooonnnng time to get caught up to the demand. It was a lot of fun until it wasn’t - I got burned out around 2017 - and I have done very few pet portraits ever since. Until recently. I visited Kara Bullock at the beginning of May and we filmed my next online workshop focused on the characteristics of my Painting a Dog a Day pieces - loose, impressionistic color in personality packed portraits that can be completed in a sh...

make her yours 20”x20”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel with 3/4” profile (no pressing need to frame). $1900 to the first asking nicely, shipping inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Masquerade can ship mid June 2026. Anyone remember the drawings I created years ago featuring totems made of Butterfly, Fox, Bear and Deer? I exhibited a dozen of the pieces in a group show, then tucked them away into my flat files. A pile of unresolved drawings still sits here, rather hopefully, on my drafting table. I also painted a number of Fox pieces featuring Butterfly in unexpected ways - most recently, Kitsune , featuring Fox spliced with a Butterfly totem. At the time I had tried a number of approaches with Bear and Butterfly, but wasn’t satisfied with what showed up. I figured it simply wasn’t meant to be and moved onto other concepts. Last weekend, after spotting the first swallowtail of the season, I saw a Bear Butterfly compos...

check them out, take one home At left “Berna Pup,” 8”x8”, $525 and at right “Sunshine,” 6”x8,” $470. Both of these paintings are acrylic on flat museum quality panels, available at my website through the above link. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. 20 years ago I began my commitment to daily painting, starting the pet portrait project Painting a Dog a Day. Shortly in, the project went viral (viral wasn’t even a thing 20 years back!), and   within days I had an 18 month long wait list for daily paintings . Over the years I developed a unique style and fresh approach that was eagerly anticipated by thousands of collectors. It was a lot of fun until it wasn’t - I burned out around 2017 and have done very few pet portraits since. Until recently. I snuck out to visit my friends at   Kara Bullock Art School   earlier this month and we filmed my next online workshop. Of which the above two paintings ...

check her out, she can be all yours 18”x24”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel, $1900 to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Hellebore can ship at the end of May 2026. This little fox started over a month ago with   a very simple drawing   derived from two other paintings of mine. I had no idea where she was going, just that I wanted a focus on basic value shapes and a young silhouette. Finished yesterday, she was inspired by violets and her namesake, both growing voraciously in my garden despite the mixed weather here in the midwest. I looked it up after signing her - I did not know that hellebore is in the buttercup family and highly toxic (don’t worry - it’s planted in a section of the yard our dogs have no access to). I had no idea it represented calamity - but also, because it blooms in snow, it also represents hope. Here I was thinking I wanted to fill Fox with hellebore b...

check him out, he can be all yours 12”x12”, acrylic on a flat panel. $725 to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Charming can ship at the end of May 2026. I am continuing to push paint every day, working small, keeping things light hearted. There’s enough serious stuff going on elsewhere. While with my students the other day, we talked about energetic footprints. Much like a carbon footprint which measures use of natural resources, an energetic footprint would measure the energy infused in a piece, energy that off-gases or triggers other responses, as it travels about. I like thinking about the energetic footprint of my artwork. It lights me up to think that they might be a bright moment in someone’s day. The button above will take you to my website for direct purchasing, along with viewing in a room or right up close. Payment plans are also available - see below for terms. If you miss...

check him out, he can be all yours 12”x12”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel with 3/4” profile (no pressing need to frame). Edges painted a mica filled tootsie roll brown. $950 to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Charming can ship at the end of May 2026. Keeping things light in the studio these days, allowing my littler friends like the chicks and toads to show up. Working on these pieces keeps me smiling, which is a wonderful respite from other things. I imagine them leaving a trail of smiles and glitter as I send them out into the world as well. The link above will take you to my website for direct purchasing, along with viewing in a room or right up close. Payment plans are also available - see below for terms. Also, in case you missed it, I am teaching an i n person workshop this October at Slow River Studio   outside Boston. It’s a three day blitz on how to build paintings o...

Chick in Space i (far right) Chick in Space ii (on left) Chick in Space iii (the middle child) Each 6”x6”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel with 3/4” profile (no pressing need to frame), sides painted a sparkley tootsie roll brown, $350 each to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. These girls   will launch can ship at the end of April 2026. This week started out pretty heavy. I didn’t have the motivation to begin another large Bear painting, but I knew that pushing paint would be good for me. I decided to try something light and playful after Facebook served up some good memories of chick paintings from years passed. Initially I thought the paintings would be like the others, lighthearted, lifesized chicks in pastel-ish spring colors. Instead I found myself drawn to the girls’ personalities, imagining fantastical narratives for each, and they became scaled up VIP (Very Important Poul...

check her out, make her yours 24”x36”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel with 1-1/2” profile (no pressing need to frame), $3000 to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Cumulonimbus can ship at the end of April 2026. I signed two paintings on Friday, which is uncommon, but also a bit overdue as I’ve not finished anything (other than Mona’s posthumous portrait) in a couple of weeks. I’m still painting daily - even Tuesday after the studio flooded, although it wasn’t for long. Painting is one of the few ways I escape all the noise of The Real World, and I’m finding my daily studio routine to be a life saver anymore. There is always an element of current events in my work, although it’s not super obvious. In this one it is the feel of a roiling storm building. The pixellated edges are my way of saying how unreal current situations feel (I actually quite like this effect and will be leaning in...