Figure Study

Graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches, c.2000
#149

New Buffalo Studies

Recently I was in New Buffalo and took advantage of a sunny Sunday to make some watercolor studies of Lake Michigan. All are 4 x 6 inches. I gave up on the last one because I was cold and wet, and it was getting dark.

#148

Falling Bouquet

This watercolor is from about 2002.
#147

Reclining Figure

Conte on paper, 9 x 12 inches, 2001
#146

Study for First Novel

This is one of several studies for my previous post.

Pastel on paper, 6 x 8 inches, c. 2005
#145

First Novel

This painting was inspired one night while walking home from my old studio in downtown Ferndale. I caught a glimpse of a young person typing in one of the many basement apartments along Nine Mile. Several sketches preceded the actual painting.

Fine art prints of this painting are available here.

Oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches, c. 2005
#144

Cupid

When I was in art school at the University of Iowa there was a lot of talk about drawing, especially pertaining to line.

Bamboo pen and ink, 2003.
#143

Head Study

The worst thing about going through all my old drawings was having to spray them with that noxious fixative. I went through over a dozen cans. Fortunately my studio is big and has good ventilation.

Graphite on paper, 12 x 9 inches, c.1997
#142

Charcoal Study

I just finished cataloging well over a thousand old drawings, watercolors, pastels, prints, and oils, including thirty-five sketchbooks. I am going to post some of them in the next few weeks as I complete a portrait commission. Here is the first.

Charcoal on paper, 9 x 12 inches, c.2002
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Woman and Chain

Continuing to post older work. Fine art prints of this painting are available here ... http://goo.gl/4GVaYv

Oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches, 1998
#140

Portrait of Sarah

I worked with Sarah only once or twice, but she was a very expressive model. This painting is unique in that it was done on copper. The copper panel was given to me by the artist Ken Kaiser, who prepared it himself. The original painting as well as fine art prints are available here...http://goo.gl/kxdscJ

Oil on copper, 10 x 8 inches, 2015
#139

Top Hat

 

I am going to post older work as I continue with commissioned portraits, as well as developing a series of paintings of the Great Lakes. Fine art prints of this painting are available here.

Oil on panel, 12 x 10 inches, 2001.
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Kenneth B. Katz

Ken Katz is an art conservator and the 2014 president of the Prismatic Club in Detroit. He is also a mountain climber, and some of the mountains he has climbed are represented in the paintings which hang behind him. Also in the paintings are several buildings in Detroit which are of significance to him. The setting for the portrait is the interior of the Prismatic Club.

Fine art prints are available here.

Oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches, 2015
#137