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.
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
Portrait of Elsie Viles
A commissioned portrait of Elsie Viles for the Elsie and William Viles Charitable Foundation. A companion piece to Portrait of William Viles. oil on canvas,
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
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.
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
Downtown Café
acrylic on canvas, 2018, 18 x 42 in. An illustration of a local café scene.
Bear Hunting, Moxie Gore
new portrait commission, 2016 36 x 36 inches, Acrylic on canvas.
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
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.
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
I love these portraits. They convey a mood unique to each painting.