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Here, I’ve painted in the preliminary colors of the suits. This helps me quickly get a more solid sense that the work is progressing. I’ve done a good bit of work on the horns as well at this stage.

Getting back to business with this piece focusing on a brass trio. Here’s the revamped sketch that will be used in the production of the painting. The title is not as clear at this point.

Hello, back from the Hinterlands. I was off working on a couple of new and exciting ventures for most of the year.  They’ll debut in earnest in 2015. Though one of the projects is art-related, it is somewhat different than the work in the jazz series, so I didn’t want to post about it here, although I will do a […]

It took me while to get it done, because of the necessity to complete some other commitments, but here is my first completed work of 2014, “San Francisco Slides”. The “Slides” part of the title references the slides of the trombones featured in the image, as well as the sloping angles of the streets. The painting was done in acrylic […]

A little in-progress video while painting and listening to Quartet San Francisco’s CD “New Works by California Composers”.

A little video on the process of transferring the sketch to canvas for the “San Francisco” painting.

I’ve been working on a finishing up a couple of pieces before starting work on the canvas for a new painting called “San Francisco Slides”. Here’s a video of digital painting study which I produced. Updates on the progress of the painting coming soon! In the meantime, here’s a little teaser — with music!

So I was working on “San Francisco Slide” when I posted back in June.  I had to wrap up some loose ends on another project in July and at the moment I’m tightening up two paintings that I started awhile back. I plan to have those completed by week’s end. In the meantime, I’ve been doing a bit more development […]

One of the questions that has come up over the years is why the figures in my jazz series are painted in black.  I want use this forum to address that question. When I decided to produce this series more 20 years ago now, I wanted  to create one in which  the figures were more representational of musician rather than […]

Here I’m refining a sketch for a piece I’m working on and titling “San Francisco Slide”, at the moment (because it’s going to feature at least one trombonist). I’m playing with the angle of the streets to mimic the sloping hills for which the city of San Francisco is famous. I’ll refine it more in the production of the actual […]