Tableaux en vente aux enchères à Rossini

The paintings below will be on auction the 26 November at one of the major auction houses of France, the Maison Rossini, Paris.  Because I donated the paintings to the ASPRHP, 100% of the earnings will benefit the Association de Soutien aux Parents et à la Recherche en Hépatologie Pédiatrique--ASPRHP (The original name of the association was Association of Children with Liver Disease).

Here is a link to their website

This is a great chance to get one of my larger Parisian paintings for a small price. There is a link on the top of my blog where I will keep you informed.

Clic on: Maison Rossini to read about their conditions and see the online catalogue. Auction with absentee bidding starts at samedi 26 nov. 2011 à 14h00

November Sun in Luxembourg

100x150 cm

oil on canvas

2008

Pink Coat

100x100cm

oil on canvas

2008

Carmine Street

Carmine Street

80x120 cm

oil on canvas

I've been painting like a fiend to finish this before some sun at the beach near Cannes.  I thought that I could cheat some and use the palette knife then ended up scraping off almost a days work.  After I projected the photo onto the canvas, (yes, I do that) I realized that the only part of the photo that struck me originally was the part on the left with the three guys in the sun but I wasn't about to cut the canvas — not those wonderfully lightweight Italian imported ones from Pieraccini.  

Here it is, thirty or so hours of painless brushstrokes, a labor of love; more for the canvas than the subject.  Part of the difficulty in painting this was due to two things:  I prepped the canvas too light in color and then when I opened the new tube of Mars Black it wasn't black, it was a bizarre red-brown. 

Instead of wasting time looking for the invoice of purchase and trying to exchange the rotten tube, I squeezed a gob on to my palette and added Ultramarine Blue. To my delight the color is not only unusual but rich and lovely.  Now I want more of it but don't know what color it truly is.  My companion told me it is probably the end or the beginning of the mix that mistakingly was packaged.

A video of painting a Police Horse

Work work work paint paint paint... Buzz Buzz.

New York City Urban landscape

This is the latest painting of NYC

The legs of the lady in the front are not as white as they seem.  The title is
Official Merchandise
It is 120x80cm
I think it took about 30 hours and I could keep working on it if I wanted to.  The people are so much fun to create, almost everyone was listening to an ipod