Tick Tock Diner - Clifton, New Jersey

Completed painting...

oil on panel

5" x 7"

Nick Hotel - Orlando, Florida

Completed painting

oil on panel

5" x 7"

nfs

Miss America Diner - Jersey City, New Jersey

This will be my next large painting.

Happy Independence Day!!!

Old Garage - Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Completed painting...

oil on panel

7" x 5"

White Mana - Jersey City, New Jersey

Completed painting...

oil on panel

5" x 7"

Nathan's Famous

Completed painting

oil on panel

5" x 7"

Sold

Garden State Parkway Sign - Rochelle Park, New Jersey

Completed painting

oil on panel

7" x 5"

This is the first in a limited run of small oil paintings that I am offering up for sale on ebay.

Thanks in advance for looking!

Lyndhurst Diner - Lyndhurst, New Jersey

Completed painting...

oil on linen

32" x 22"

Next up...Lower East Side alleyway, NYC

Lyndhurst Diner - Lyndhurst, New Jersey

detail...

Lyndhurst Diner - Lyndhurst, New Jersey

2nd stage of underpainting complete...

I am using Prussian Blue for the night sky in this painting, a color that I rarely use but seems to be perfect for the job at hand.  I usually limit my palette to the 3 primary colors and 3 secondary colors plus white to achieve any color that I need in the spectrum, but on rare occasions, I will add a new color for convenience.  

I am going to take the Harris Diner painting down to OK Harris gallery sometime next week to see if they accept it and me for representation.  My old friend John Baeder did a painting of this diner years back, and it is now in their permanent collection, so I'm hoping that they like mine as well.  Wish me well...

http://www.johnbaeder.com/Oils/1992-HarrisDiner.htm

http://www.okharris.com/

Harris Diner-East Orange, New Jersey

Completed painting...

oil on linen

14" x  36"

Next up...Lyndhurst Diner and Old Mill Swim Cub, Paramus, N.J.

Summer Show at Kerygma

I have 9 paintings hanging in the Summer Show at Kerygma Gallery.

May 12 through August 8

www.kerygmagallery.com


The Harris Diner is almost complete...just need to do the neon tubing.

Harris Diner-East Orange, New Jersey

About 1/2 way through. 

I can't remember the last time I had this much fun painting reflective metal.  I love oil paint for it's blending capabilities, I don't think any other medium comes close to it.

You can attain such subtlety of value and color change which in turn makes the object appear 3 dimensional on a 2 dimensional surface.

Harris Diner-East Orange, New Jersey

First stage of underpainting complete.

Why do the Rangers piss me off so much???!!!!!  This series is over....

Petunia - North Truro, Massachusetts

Completed painting

oil on linen 

26" x 32"

Next up...Harris diner, East Orange, New Jersey

Petunia - North Truro, Massachusetts

Still going...

Four Seas - Centerville, Massachusetts

Completed painting

oil on linen 

12" x 16"

Four Seas - Centerville, Massachusetts

2nd stage of underpainting complete.

I am working on a book of my paintings that I will publish on Blurb in the next few months.  I will post more information as I get closer to the print date.  If anyone is interested in purchasing one, please let me know so that I can order enough copies.  I think as of now, it will be around $40 for a hardcover copy and $30 for the softcover.  Thanks in advance...

Nathan's and Four Seas

I'm done painting for today, and I'm bored...so I figured I'd post to the blog.  The summer show opens May 5 at Kerygma, so I'm trying to see how many summer themed piantings I can complete before that date.

I'm working on these 2 little ones while the big Petunia dries.

Lastly, run, don't walk out to the cd store (does anyone even do that anymore?) and buy the new U2 album.  Pure genius...

Petunia - North Truro, Massachusetts

2nd stage of underpainting complete...

The second image is of a painting I did of another one of these cabins back in 1991.  I remember when this was being displayed in the gallery who represented me back then in Provincetown, Mass.  It was right in the front window of the gallery for all passersby to see.  Looking back at this painting now, it seems a bit naive and amateurish, but I sure was proud to have it in the window of a prominent gallery.  Seems like a lifetime ago........

Petunia - North Truro, Massachusetts

Into the 2nd stage of underpainting...

This cottage is not far from Edward Hopper's summer studio.

The musician is David Eugene Edwards of the band 16 Horsepower.

Belmar Fishing Club - Belmar, New Jersey

Completed painting

oil on linen

18" x 31"

Next up...Red's - Point Pleasant, N.J.

Draft Beer - Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Completed painting...

oil on linen

12" x 16"

Next up...Belmar Fishing Club...Belmar, New Jersey

Draft Beer - Seaside Heights, New Jersey

2nd stage of underpainting complete.

On the mac screen is a painting by the great Artist Jeff Cohen.  His paintings are truly magnificent to see up close.

He paints on multiple small panels, then assembles them into one cohesive large painting.  Very, very impressive work.

jeffcohenstudio.com

Wonder Bar - Asbury Park, New Jersey

Completed painting

oil on linen

15" x 21"

I think this is the first time I've ever finished a painting on my birthday!  

The other 2 images are of my next major pieces...the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island and the Lollipop Motel in North Wildwood, New Jersey.

I am scheduled to have another one person show at Kerygma Gallery in April 2010, and the Cyclone painting will be the featured piece in the upcoming summer show called "Summer Pleasures", also at Kerygma.  

Garden State Plaza - Paramus, New Jersey

These are some images of the Garden State Plaza shopping mall circa 1970 located in Paramus, N.J.

I am seriously considering doing a painting of the Santa if I can obtain permission from the photographer.  I remember being in awe of that massive fellow when I was a little kid.

The colorful painting was on the side of the old Alexander's department store on Route 4, also in Paramus.  I believe it depicts a map of the world in abstract expressionist form.  I love seeing these old images of Bergen County    
 

Wonder Bar - Asbury Park, New Jersey

2nd stage of underpainting complete.

These small paintings come together a lot faster than the large ones, that's for sure!  I should have this one done in less than 2 weeks.

One last sidenote...if I see one more hockey  parent on an opposing team banging on a cowbell, I am going to stick it where the sun don't shine.  

I'm just saying................

Me in 4th grade with Mrs. Green

This is a picture that an old 4th grade classmate of mine, Nancy Silverman Flaum sent me on Facebook.

I'm 4th from the left, bottom row, by the way...with the wicked cool shirt and vest!!!

I just wanted to remember my teacher for that year, Mrs. Bernice Green on this historic day.  She was a great influence on me and I shall never forget her.  I hope I made you proud, Mrs Green.

Wonder Bar - Asbury Park, New Jersey

Next up.

Cyclone - Brooklyn, N.Y.

Completed painting.

oil on linen

30" x 42"