Welcome to my website! Thank you for taking the time to rummage around in it!  As you will see, most of my works are portrait or figure in landscape subjects.  I enjoy trying to portray a 'story' of sorts, especially with my figures in landscapes subjects.  I hope you will visit every now and then to see what's new.  If you would like to contact me, you can do so by using the "Contact" link at the left side of this page.

Some of my latest works....

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Here is my latest portrait...a charcoal drawing of my daughter-in-law's late mother "Caroline". As you can probably surmise, the photo was taken in a diner or someplace with window blinds so there were reflections on her face and coat.

These two paintings, one watercolor and one pastel, are of the surgeon who performed my successful back surgery. The watercolor was a surprise gift for him...the other was just for myself. Through the beauty of Photoshop, I was able eliminate the small gouge next to his ear. The framer, in effect, destroyed the portrait that could not be repaired preventing me from ever submitting it to live exhibits...only online ones. I was, to say the least, devastated.

Here is a pastel portrait of Tando, our waitress on a recent cruise in New Zealand and Australia. She is from South Africa and now has a print of the painting....

Here's a fellow I captured in the market in Florence, Italy. Wish I knew who was on the other end of the phone!

A distant relative, George Pitt Stevenson, Jr., was originally painted in oil by John Wesley Jarvis in 1814. The painting has been handed down from family to family since then. It currently resides in the Baltimore Museum of Art. I elected to paint it in Sepia watercolor to

suggest the age of the time and sitter...

I just finished a watercolor portrait demonstration given to the Roxbury Art Association..it generally covers some of the steps I follow to paint a portrait. As a demo, this is meant to be a 'snippet' of process, not a finished portrait since it can take several hours to complete. Here is the link to the video....

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Recently, my watercolor "Laura" was selected to be included in the 2021 Splash publication...expected to be available in November. This is extremely gratifying considering the challenge of being selected from among so many national and international watercolor artists...

My family has had an ancestral oil portrait of my distant cousin, George Pitt Stevenson, Jr. (1770-1819) for, obviously many years! I received it when my father died in 1997. The portrait is attributed to the artist John Wesley Jarvis, a student of Edward Savage. It is a wonderful portrait and will be seen by the public for the first time since painted in about 1812-1814. We donated the painting to the Baltimore Museum of Art since my cousin was a Baltimore resident. A tidbit about him learned during the research was that George's stepfather was the nephew of Thomas Jefferson and actually resided at Monticello for a while. I plan on doing a sort of tribute watercolor painting of the sitter, but for now I just a completed a small graphite drawing to wet my whistle for now....