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I started work on Parroquia de San Miguel from across the courtyard in El Jardin with the local Urban Sketchers.
I finished this Painting after a few weeks. Done on iPad,
San Miguel is the friendliest and most creative towns anywhere. A sane alternative to the racist lunacy in the US.
March 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
What borders on Fascist Stupidity?
Mexico and Canada.
We’ve fled to San Miguel de Allende, a world heritage cultural center, where we escaped the hateful madness for the last month.
I’ve only run into friendly, educated people, who think before they vote.
A work I did with the Urban Sketchers
March 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My father was a member of the original ANTIFA, by serving in the US Army during World War two in a charcoal drawing from an old grainy photograph from 80 years ago. showing a captured enemy plane.
My Dad is depicted in the lower left (in the helmet)
America today, seems to have switched sides.
January 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
With planned cutbacks to health insurance in America, I can only afford to visit Zoltar, with his 75¢ out-of-pocket deductible for medical advice. With clinics across the country in arcades, Dr. Zoltar is my new go to doctor.
December 10, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Not long ago during better times, we visited the San Francisco Bay Area. While there, we visited the Alameda Pinball Museum where I sketched and later finished a painting of this 1950's pinball backboard.
I just thought a bright vibrant picture is therapeutic to get through these dark times.
November 16, 2024 at 3:26 PM
It's almost that time of year again where evil walks among us through the dark night. No, I'm not talking about our fourth quarter real estate tax deadline, it's Halloween.
Last year, while walking the darkened streets of Lisbon Portugal, on the night of evil, we came across this club of the dead.
November 16, 2024 at 3:23 PM
It took an age trying to paint this photorealistic piece.
When I started, the subject's tricornered hat, cockade and breeches were the style rage of the season.
I started this from a visit to Saint Paul's National Park in Mount Vernon with the Westchester Urban Sketchers.
November 16, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I captured this scene while looking at the sunset from the front gates of where we stood last winter in Key West Florida.
The power lines playing against the pending storm impressed me. Oh, and the palm tree's falling coconuts that crashed onto the passing traffic added to the ambience.
Pastel.
November 16, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Screw humans, the dumbest and most hateful life-form on Earth. There’s a more peaceful and intelligent species; dogs who never commit genocide, and they're loyal.
Here is one for leader of my pack.
Cody for alpha. A mixed breed for all. Empathetic, observant, and can spot bonzes from 100 yards away.
November 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Walking past this Curio Shop in Key West Florida, I did a double take. Amused by the shop’s items that washed ashore, a few I swear I tossed into the garbage year's ago, I painted this four-panel oil. Who knows, someday after it’s tossed out, it too will display in the shop’s window
November 16, 2024 at 2:59 PM
On a walk to a mountaintop part of Lisbon where we saw ancient sites such as this artifact known as a phone booth, now used by tourists as a repository for empty beer cans.
To get there we walked this mysterious stairwell and alleyway.
Charcoal on paper.
November 16, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Another Key West sunset done in oil. Man, I got to do a different theme
November 16, 2024 at 2:51 PM
We looked on this Key West sunset with such wonder all watching gasped in astonishment, comparing it to a brilliant complete nuclear power plant meltdown.
I tried capturing the scene in oil paint
November 16, 2024 at 2:50 PM
A scene from The Crane Preserve in the Florida Keys. This nature sanctuary is an ecosystem of tropical life so lush, it’s a great place to dump a body without leaving a trace. Something I’d love to do to those irritating telemarketers.
Crime scene as an oil on canvas board
November 16, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I so had it with this cold winter that I’m posting a charcoal I did of a summer pathway along the Bronx River Parkway. Just think, in a few short months we’ll all be grumbling about the heat, and longing for the cold
November 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
A Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Prosperous Kwanzaa to all. And unlike someone who will remain unmentionable, may NO ONE ROT IN HELL this holiday season!
The closest I’ve gotten to hell was when I made a wrong turn one holiday night and wound up in Christmasland. iPad painting.
November 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Belém Tower painted from a recent trip to Lisbon. This 16th century Castle was the starting point for many European explorers. (AKA African and American Exploitation Missions)
If you had enough of hearing about “Old-World” exploitation of the “New World,” then blame it on Belem.
November 16, 2024 at 2:37 PM
To celebrate the end of summer, I did this iPad painting from a trip with the Urban Sketchers to Pierson Park in Tarrytown NY.
November 16, 2024 at 2:26 PM
On a RV trip cross country, I saw these 3 actors after performing a cos-play or a New Mexico Shootout. Oil on canvas
November 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Learning my lesson of the gas inefficiency of these cars, I didn’t try to jack it. Instead I made this oil painting
November 16, 2024 at 2:20 PM
I saw this beauty at a recent Westchester Auto show, it so inspired me, I tried to hot-wire the dashboard and drive away with it. Unable t wire the car, I painted an oil of it instead
November 16, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Passing this abandon building while driving our RV through the backwoods of New Jersey, I wondered if it's the legendary frat house of Freddy Kruger, Mike Myers, and Jason. Peering inside, I didn’t see anything supernatural, but I swear I noticed walls of classified document boxes.
Charcoal
November 16, 2024 at 2:13 PM
From a recent visit to Geiger Key in Florida last winter.
Watercolor.
November 16, 2024 at 2:12 PM
In celebration of April 20, (and I don't mean Adolf Hitler's birthday. Sorry Nazis, you can all crawl back into your sewers) I mean the most joyous, happiest celebration on the calendar¦ 4/20 Day! Here's the pride of last year's crop which is now bringing many days and nights of happiness.
November 16, 2024 at 2:09 PM

We went to the temple of love inn Untermeyer park in Yonkers NY to give thanks to Aphrodite the Goddess of Love on a warm afternoon. The park official's said that under no circumstances do they allow human sacrifices for any reason. We then popped the car trunk freeing the sacrificial virgins.
November 16, 2024 at 2:04 PM