painting people
Portrait painting needs to be more than just a photo-type likeness. As an artist you have to paint what people think the person looks like.
I always feel the true likeness lives partway between the actual physical face and what we think or feel about that person–like a filter halfway between us.
Our inside perception of a person changes what we see with our eyes.
Gary Woodland
oil on canvas, 2021
48 x 41 inches
Commissioned by Magellan Financial
American Golf Pro, Woodland won the U.S. Open in 2019
detail from Dance of Two Cultures mural
This is a portrait detail of the singer/actor Dennis St. Pierre from my Dance of Two Cultures mural in Brunswick, Maine.
Portrait of Jenny
Shown and sold at the 2005 Contemporary Realism Show, Center for Living Arts, Mobile, Alabama. The use of wax medium (beeswax melted in turpentine) facilitates
Vincent Millay
Portrait of Edna St Vincent Millay, oil on canvas 2017 I painted this portrait for the Millay Poetry Festival in Rockland, Maine in 2017. This
Richard and Tricia hosting a masquerade soirée
Large group portraitacrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, 2020
Daniel Wathen, Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court 1992-2001
This large oil portrait of Maine’s Chief Justice Daniel Wathen has a picture of a Harley Davidson rider cleverly concealed in the gleam on one
Wedding Portrait of Helen
This classic wedding portrait was painted in a manner reminiscent of John Singer Sargent as a wedding gift to a family friend known since childhood.
“Sunday Morning” Langsdorf Family Portrait
Family of Stephen Langsdorf, former city attorney for Augusta, the capitol city of Maine. Although the Lansdorfs live in a house of breathtaking beauty filled
Lili Charles
Portrait of Lili Charles, oil on canvas, 22 x 40 inches, 2013 This is a man I met on Virgin Gorda and he posed while
Saturday Night at the Bar
22 x 30 inches, 2016
An acrylic painting of a downtown pub, taproom.
Commissioned by The Quarry Taproom, Hallowell, Maine.
I love these portraits. They convey a mood unique to each painting.