Walking Home

Walking Home

20x20cm oil on linen

I think the guy on the top left looks like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.  

Smile

Smile

20x20cm oil on linen

I love these pub signs.  Thing is it doesn't matter what was written on it.  I can decide.

Red Flag

Red Flag

20x20cm oil on linen

When you see a red flag flash behind your eyes then it's time to stop and listen to yourself.  It's happened to me a few times and those were life changing moments. 

NYC Skyline

NYC Skyline

20x20cm

oil on linen

This view is on the highway coming in from Long Island.  It reminds me of certain paintings I did of Tuscany, long long ago

NYC Cab

NYC Cab

20x20

oil on linen

I love the purple tarmac.  I need to get crazy with these colors.

La Magiorata

La Magiorata

20x20cm

I've embarked on a major production of little paintings for a gallery.  The technique is fast with sharpie pens and palette knife.  These are more about gesture.  Oil sketches.

It is more fun than I imagined.  What is 

Hopefully I can post one a day...  so stay tuned

A Beautiful Dedication to Me from Someone Worth Following

A week ago I had visitors in my atelier in Ivry.  What a lovely couple.

They fell in love with a painting and took it home.

Caroline posted on her blog the adventure she lived and I almost cried when I read her post. La Belle Americaine on Watzis Her blog is a great mix of vintage

She calls me "formidable and adorable and profondément touchante. "

I am touched by her kind words and really, like my head is ready to explode from her admiration.

Thanks Caroline and Jean-Babtiste!!!

A french collection

Here is a photo of one of my paintings in it's new home somewhere in France.  It looks so small but the house is gigantic.  The painting is big too. It looks like a photo almost.  

It's such a pleasure that my painting has a happy home.  Thanks!

Speed Trap

Speed Trap

oil on linen 30x30cm

love this little painting.  It's in Long Island, heading for the Hamptons 

work in progress,Contemporary figurative painting of New York City

I love this painting like it is.  It might be nice to leave it like this and call in Manhattan Dream, but I'll finish it.

September 21-29 my paintings will be at the Cnit for the Art'Oclock. The Cnit is the convention center at the Defense in Paris. Later in Strasbourg for the St'Art and then Mulhouse and more coming...