Winter Horse Painting

A newer painting that is listed on eBay this week for the rock bottom price of $149 as a BUY IT NOW. We haven't had any snow this year. It's been unseasonably warm so I decided to paint some. I love painting snow: the warm and cool reflections, the deep violet shadows.

Pancho Villa in Living Color

The newest oil in the Mexican Revolutionary Series I have been painting for Mr. J. Arce is non other than Pancho Villa. Painted using four small black and white photos, a lot of this was very interpretive. Although it was a challenge to get the likeness right, it was also fun to invent the man's mood. I plan to offer limited edition prints toward the end of this month, and I should have limited edition prints of Emiliano Zapata, Villa's comrade in arms available in my eBay store by the second week in January.

Conspiring Pears

had this little conversation going on in my head when I was painting this.
Pear No. 1: I heard she was making lime Jello tonight.
Pear No. 2 (shrilly): No!!!
Pear No. 3: You don't think she'll be putting you know what in there, do you?

8 x 10 oil on canvas - a quickie about an hour.
(I did make the Jello)

I am posting a photo of the pears before they became dessert as well. I will talk later about why a painting is usually a more accurate representation of reality than a photo ever can be and this painting is a great example of why this is true.

A.J. Hawk Ohio State Football Player

This is the first in a series of college football players I am painting. They will all be 16 x 20 originals and all done in oil. There will be 8-10 in this series - all with starting bids of $99.99. Prints of this size are $50 so original oils at this price will be quite a bargain. I am not using copyrighted photos. I am placing the player in a composition I create.

Emiliano Zapata portrait

My latest painting is a well-known hero of the Mexican Revolutionary War, Emiliano Zapata. The size is 16 x 12 oil on canvas. Limited edition prints are available in my eBay store here.