The back of the garage

                                             12by 16 oil on board..."The back of the garage"
                                                 1965 yellow Jaguar xke roadster 

Wicked

12"by12" oil on board "Wicked". Summer at high noon near Dundas sq. The trick for me doing a loose, free style of painting is to leave well enough alone and not pick at it adding and changing.... So! there it is...

Academy of Realist Art

This is the "study" I did recently at a work shop at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto. It is Saint Jerome writing, Caravaggio. The original painted in 1605 approx. is 44"/62" this one is much smaller 14"/18" so the detail isnt there. but the work shop was very useful, Caravaggio was "odd" ( if you consider a crazed murderer odd)  in life and it reflected in his method and style.

Tizio in una barca

12 by 16 oil on canvas, this is an iPhone picture, im pretty sure its done but you never know! I dont even have a title yet, Im thinking Tizio in una barca"

ca·thar·sis

noun \kə-ˈthär-səs\

: the act or process of releasing a strong emotion (such as pity or fear) especially by expressing it in an art form.

 These were two large unfinished  paintings that represent hundreds of hours of work. For technical reasons they were never going to be completed, destroying them was a good way to stop them from bothering me ever again...

Another 11 by 14 oil on board , this one is of a "Victorian town home" just behind the Drake hotel Queen st west

Oops!, I dropped these three 5by7 oil on board paintings to the Westmount gallery yesterday and forgot to take a good photograph of them. at least I have an I phone pic.
 they were a commission for a client through Westmount