Teacup Drawing

I was working on this close to the due date for getting the Affinity show up, I ran out of time to finish it and the piece was never included. So far, this is the only finished drawing from this body of work.

graphite on cotton paper
5 x 7.5 inches

Candy Pumpkin

I wanted to make a little painting of one of these, I made it before this past Halloween and was excited for the season.

It was pretty popular at the show, a very nice architect bought it on the opening night.

Oil on Panel
4.5 by 4.5 inches

Drain Stop

I always wanted to paint this old plug! It belongs with my parents laundry tub in Buffalo, where I first noticed its inherent beauty a couple of years ago.

This past October, with only a week to go for the show, I pulled out my old under-painting and finished this little painting in a couple of days. We included it in the affinity show as a smaller work, and happily became a few peoples' favorite piece from the show.

Oil on Panel
4 x 5.5 inches

Pound Cake

This is a pound cake! I baked this before I photographed it and painted it-- it was incredibly unglamorous (compared to finished painting), but delicious. Anyways-- this was the final painting made for our October show.

I wanted to use a pointillist technique to render out the many pores in the surface of this cake and make subtle distinctions in the varied microscopic landscape of the cake. I don't have anything incredibly profound to add, I just wanted to forget everything stressful and enjoy the cake, the color, and the process.

So next on the plate will be eventually creating more in this series. I would like to think that we'd hop on that right now, but we might take a break from this line of work for a couple of months. We're in the midst of a lot of stuff right now. We are working on some very traditional small paintings about the fingerlakes and western NY area. We're applying for a few group shows as well as widening the breadth of our work. We have some more Affinity stuff unfinished in the studio right this second, so it's by no means over! We'll be sure to keep you posted whenever something happens.