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Leslie is a soprano with the Bronx Opera Company. The BOC folks come and sing for my Rotary Club each year around the holidays. I have to admit something. I thought I didn't like opera. OK, put a black mark on my brow, or a scarlet P for Phillestine on my clothing, but that is the truth. Then I joined Rotary and went to the holiday party and heard BOC. Leslie brought tears to my eyes. Then, Paul Potts' triumph was the clincher. I watched the YouTube video over and over. He rocked Nessum Dorma! He came onstage as Clark Kent and left it as Superman.
Anyway, I love the backlighting on Leslie's curly hair in this painting.
The irony is inescapable.
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Just love painting glass, especially colored glass, for the colors it throws into the shadows.
Now my bottle caps are mingling quite nicely with Jasper Johns' work. The root beer cap is carefully positioned to pull the eye across the painting from the orange field of stars which otherwise would dominate.
Another Wall Drug sign. I like using the contrast of the tightly painted sign against the landscape and sky that is so loosely painted, it almost painted itself. It emphasizes the alieness (is that a word?) of the man made in the vastness of the grassy plains.
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This beautiful little island is in Long Island Sound just off of New Rochelle. I am fortunate to be friends with the caretaker, so I get to spend time there occasionally. It is a private island owned by the New York Athletic Club and is off limits to everyone else.
So many of us can relate to these old candy machines. This one has seen a lot of miles, the touch of many an eager child's hand has worn the chroming right through to the pot metal on the trap door.
Watercolor has been the medium that I have been using most over the last few years, but here I am venturing back into oils for a bit. Something about the worn and pitted nature of the turn nob, face plate etc. seemed to lend itself more to oils.
