Paintings in progress

 This painting was my first portrait in acrylics. Usually I would grid my canvas when working from a photo reference, but in this case, I decided to just go for it. This is my brother Mike when he was about 40 years of age (he was with us for 26 more years). Most of what you see here was painted in two hours. It was like someone else was holding the brush and suddenly he appeared.  I feel he was g

This painting in progress is my mom at 93 years old ( 3 months before she passed on). It has gone thru many changes and will have more to go before I can call it done, but feel I am getting there.....

This will be my photo reference for the third piece in this series. My Yaya and Popou. My mother's parents. They were both Greek in nationality and immigrated from Turkey to avoid being drafted into a Turkish war. 

Look at Gallery below for step by step progression of this piece.