Five hour pose. Watercolor.

My oldest son’s ear when he was a teenager. Acrylic, 10x8”

Oil on canvas.

Short poses today.

Long pose broken up into short sketches. Watercolor.

Revising some old paintings.

Sketching today.

A Pond On Chesterville Road, acrylic on panel, about 6x12”

Side-Eye Side-Selfie, oil on panel, 10x8” ​

MAGA: “I can’t understand a word Bad Bunny is saying!” Kid Rock: “Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy”

Another figure group today.

Figure group today. A page of 2 minute pose. A page of 5 minute poses. And a page of 10 and 15 minute watercolors.

This is like saying people at Diddy parties BEFORE his trial didn’t know what a Diddy party was. Like, only the publicity now makes it what it always was. Anyone who raped children before 2008 will just claim they had no idea what went on. “Oh, sure, I was there, but I had no idea about the raping.”

I can’t imagine being a billionaire and needing to go to Rape Island to get laid.

After shoveling snow all day I’m wishing there was a warm, blue state.

Legitimate law enforcement officers not speaking out against this undermines public trust and calls into question EVERY shooting by police.

The Right: “Everyone should have a gun.” ICE: “Alex Pretti had a gun.” The Right: “He shouldn’t have had a gun.”

Still trying to figure out how to paint a foreground. I like painting what’s in the distance, but the mess of what’s at my feet doesn’t interest me. It just seems necessary sometimes. Greens and Blues (Chicory), oil on panel, 16×20”

If the ICE murderer is allowed to keep his $1 million GoFundMe that only encourages the other goons to murder for profit.

An ear in oil paint at figure group today.

5 minute poses and 10 minute poses.

Snow on Whiskey Hill, acrylic, 12×16”

1/2 Congressman Dan Meuser on X "… Nicolás Maduro has presided over a regime marked by arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, extrajudicial killings, disappearances, repression of dissent, and serious restrictions on freedom of expression and political opposition. …

This is the painting done from the recent watercolor sketch I posted. I’m not sure if this is done. The clouds are deliberately old fashioned (Rococo maybe?) so it feels like it needs some cherubs. But instead of cherubs I’m thinking about adding some birds. Nelson Pond, oil on canvas, 15x30”

That time of year again.

Here’s a gouache sketch for a new painting.

5 minute poses at figure group today followed by 10-15 minute poses.

Still playing with this one.

A little gouache sketch before everyone woke up this morning. ​

I continued playing with this plein air sketch ​in my basement. It’s just a struggle between the strange shapes I love in the farm fields and trying to make “a picture” or scene. I don’t have an interest in painting little tree branches but feel like I’m supposed to.

It was frosty when I went out this morning. I hadn’t painted outside in a long time. It clouded over before I was half way finished and then it started raining. Of course by the time I got back to my car the sun was back out. This is why I’ve been painting inside more lately.

A little watercolor practice today on wrinkly sketchbook paper.

This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.

I have paintings that I’m never happy with. I can pull them off my pile at any time and continue to play with them. This is one of them. This morning I changed it for the third time.

Some drawings from figure group yesterday.

As of November 4, 2025, estimates indicate that President Donald Trump's golfing in 2025 has cost U.S. taxpayers approximately $68.6 million.

The MSNBC montage played clip after clip of Patel demanding accountability from past FBI directors for what he called “private jet joyrides.”

A couple more sketches.

I’m experimenting with gouache in a small sketchbook of toned paper. The paper is lightweight and designed for drawing and sketching with dry media. A little water with watercolor makes it buckle. ​Hopefully using gouache thicker will reduce the warping.

I’m having trouble choosing which Halloween costume for tomorrow.

It was another beautiful evening here. I had to get out and paint. It was either that or do yard work. Tough choice. ​

I liked the atmosphere at the edge of this meadow on a rainy morning a few weeks ago. Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel, 9x16”