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My oil paintings are the result of a decade
of summer study in Maine, growing up in
the midwest, and most recent
challenges in Europe. Please email me if
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On Ebay Now

January 28, 2010

Seagull Buddies starts tonight and will end on Sunday Feb. 7. Nice little 6 x 6 inch painting.

January 25, 2010

Small crab painting done and is scheduled on ebay for Tuesday night and; its titled, Crab with Barnacle. Its 6 x 6 inches and has some nice stroke work that is not showing in the digital. It has a $1 starting bid. Wednesday I've got another little gem featuring seagulls, rocks, and the state of Maine. Both of those are 1 week paintings and end around 11:10pm Eastern.

January 23, 2010

Its been a little while since I made an update as I've got a bunch of new things going on. Firstly there is a painting starting on allegro.pl this Sunday. Allegro is the Polish version of ebay and quite similar. The first painting for that has been in my gallery here for a little while and I think it'll make a great starter for allegro. Justyna helped me with the translations for the auctions. For now I'll just be selling Polish scenes on allegro and American compositions on my website and ebay. There hasn't been much demand for paintings of Poland in the states so it'll work out well.

On a side note I'm back in class again learning Polish on Wednesday and Fridays.

I've got a couple new works that'll be available here for a time and then go up on ebay (see below); the third one is a vertical painting.

Starting last month sold paintings that are seen on this page will have a red border; if there is no red border and its newer than this post then click the picture for a larger view and details.

January 12, 2009

Large work in Progress; its from work done this past summer. Apparently they repainted the red house a different red sometime between 2007 and 2009. This painting is still needing some refinement / detail and some tonal changes; I'll announce completion later in February.

December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

The online gallery will be open through the holiday, but I will be out of town until Sunday night. Be safe everyone and have a wonderful time with family and friends.

December 21, 2009

Several new paintings are ready for your wall. The second one there is a vertical painting (edit sold); click images for larger view in new window.

December 17, 2009

This 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 painting got finished up and signed today; the scene is of the lighthouse building complex on top of Monhegan. I've been working on it for quite some time along with another that'll be done soon. This is one of those tremendous paintings; it'll go up on ebay with a reasonable buyout later today.

November 26, 2009

Still working on the larger painting; the red I'm using is taking quite a long time to dry and I'm doing some dry brush techniques that take a dry canvas. I finished up a couple other small paintings that will go to the Maine gallery in the next couple days. Both are 10x8 inches on canvas board (see below).

November 12, 2009

I put a nice new painting up on ebay that will end on Tuesday, Nov. 24; its from Monhegan and features some warm rock forms from a facing between Whitehead and Blackhead. These past couple weeks I've been quietly working on a large Monhegan painting and its coming along very well; if all goes well it should be done by Wednesday. Bar Harbor Antique Auto is available now in the Maine gallery. Have fun.

October 19, 2009

Great Head Acadia is done; it'll go in the Maine Gallery in the next few days and be listed at $275. This is the rock facing just southeast of Sand Beach in Acadia National Park, Maine. The rocks in this area are especially nice to paint as they have a tremendous variation in hues as well as geometric form.

I've got a couple 5 x 5 inch canvases that will get painted on in the next couple days so look for those; I haven't decided on subjects, but will come up with something interesting.

October 15, 2009

Thanks for stopping in. This painting is scheduled for ebay starting tonight. I'll admitt that its not the most exciting painting in the world, but my goal with it was to remind myself of the cool salty coastal air. Perhaps that smell I remember is the smell of seaweed at low tide.

October 11, 2009

I moved a couple updates to the weblog where they will be going in the future. The first page will be reserved for new paintings and artistic bits.

October 7, 2009

New painting starting on ebay tonight and ending 2 Sundays from now. (see above) I painted this in Maine and brought it back to my studio in Warsaw; there are a couple more similar to this that will go up on ebay in the near future.

Ebay has changed things up quite a bit for sellers while I was working in Maine; I don't qualify as a bronze power seller and won't have the top rated seller seal on my auctions despite having good detailed feedbacks. I'm not going to try to reach the bronze seller goal in order to get the "top rated seller" icon as this goal is production based for me now and I'd rather focus on improving skill and keeping customers. There might be a rant in there somewhere, but I've got too many unpainted paintings in my head right now.

August 28, 2009

Thanks to everyone that took advantage of the sale. We'll be departing Saturday afternoon; its a 10 hour flight between here and Chicago. Starting now I won't be able to ship any of the paintings on the site until I get back later in October. When I get to Maine and start working the new paintings will be available as they are completed.

I won't be able to update this site until September 10th so please stop back then.

August 17, 2009

I've been working on some 6 x 6 paintings of Maine and have a nice set forming. Together they are going to be called the Gems of Maine and I'm trying to get 16 of them done prior to August 29. The focus of these paintings is to tell small stories with attractive subjects without portraying complex relationships. I don't have a link to the page on the left yet, but use this one for now. There are 6 paintings done so far and they are not priced yet, but will be soon. See sample below

July 29, 2009

New paintings in Maine and the Other categories to the left. I also added a Maine painting demo in the learn section; that painting will be up on ebay this Thursday. I found a broken link too on the frog painting demo page; please email me if find anything broken with the site. I'll send out an email to everyone this Thursday night.

July 7, 2009

Lots of great paintings coming up soon. Some are bright and some cloudy, but pretty much all of them are Maine. There is an American Bullfrog painting too. I'll send out an email when they are up on the site and ready to sell.

I'll be in the states starting August 29 and into October. The first part of my trip is to visit friends and family and then I'll be working in Maine for 3 or so weeks. My studio will be welcoming visitors by appointment and I'll still be getting email and logging into skype.

June 19, 2009

Have a super Father's day weekend. I'll be out of town and away from the internet until Sunday night.

As promised I've completed the wedding slideshow movie thing. Its based on pictures from our photographer, Piotrek Grzywacz, and some that I took years ago. There is a zipped folder that can be downloaded and its a little larger than 100MB and will hopefully provide about 20 minutes of entertainment. Click for English version or Polish verion; both are the same except for the title page. Once you unzip the folder open the start.html file with your browser. You will need the free adobe flash player to play it; if for some reason you don't have it you'll get a link for it in the slideshow.

June 16, 2009

A bunch of Maine paitings are coming soon. Until then I put the Obama painting up on ebay. The past week I've been working on putting together an online movie with wedding pictures and I'm trying my best to get it done before this Friday. Have fun.

June 12, 2009

There are a couple Maine paintings that were added to the Maine gallery on the left. Most are 14 x 11, but there are a few small ones; all have great prices.

June 4, 2009

Painting to the right is up on ebay starting tonight and ending Sunday the 14th at 11:15pm (EST); click it to be taken to the auction in a new window/tab.

We are still waiting on wedding pictures to get back. Our photographer is doing a bunch of post processing to some of the photos.

May 30, 2009

Wedding completed. What a great event. Thanks to all who attended, emailed, left messages, or thought about us. The photographer is still working on some pictures so I only have a few at this moment that I'll post on the Web Log page. Things here are back to normal and I'm now catching up on work and such.

Look for some new paintings this coming week and several new things for ebay.

I've had website problems since this past Tuesday night because somehow it got some malicious code dropped into the index pages. I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but the problem is fixed and passwords changed. For the time being the forms are offline; send me an email if you want to be added to the mailing list. Thanks Beth. In the near future please let me know by email if something seems odd with the site.

Update: The site is back up and going. The embedded malware forward caused me to take the site down for nearly a day (Sunday); I reported it to Google until I was sure that it was 100% safe to visit. I'll be watching the site like a hawk to make sure this doesnt happen again.

There is a painting on ebay now (see above) and there will be another one starting on Thursday (Maine painting).

May 19, 2009

This week I'm on vacation. Justyna and I get married this coming Saturday and we've got family in town. Painting and this website will go back to normal late next week. I won't have time to send out paintings this week, but if you want to hold something please send an email; I'll be away from email this Thursday to Tuesday.

May 7, 2009

New painting up on ebay starting tonight - see above. The Winton Woods paintings are available now; they won't last long at these prices so email me to hold one.

April 20, 2009

There were a number of paintings added today and some sold. The Union Terminal paintings are now in the Midwest Gallery on the left. I added a number of "other" paintings to the other categorie as well. This week I'll be working on some still lives and a Maine painting for ebay that I started last week. My website updating time is being reduced as we get closer to wedding time (May 23rd). Painting is coming along very well though; thanks for checking in and have fun.

April 10, 2009

I've got a medium size still life done this week that turned out well. Its 19.7 x 15.7 inches. See picture below; I'll make a gallery page for it when I get back - with a better digital. It'll have a super price of only $350 and I'll pay to ship it. (edit: sold; thank you)

I'm going to be out of town until Tuesday night and away from email and the such.

April 6, 2009

Two new paintings are posted below. The first one is an island that is off of the Schoodic Point area, Maine. The second is a cafe here in Warsaw on the first sunny day this spring. I didn't list anything new on ebay last week as I'll be out of town this coming weekend until Wednesday, but look for something very soon. The two Winton Woods paintings below are now available and in the midwest gallery.

March 27, 2009

This weekend I'll be out of town again delivering invitations. I added a nice Coastal Maine painting to the Maine gallery; it has nice stroke work and strong palette. I'll be back Sunday night.

March 20, 2009

I've updated some of the content on the site and added a couple pictures on the statement and studio pages.

There are two Cincinnati paintings I just completed that were quite interesting to paint as the setting and compositions are essentially from memory; I was able to use Last Evening in Winton Woods as a template for the palette. (edit: see paintings above May 7, 2009) Also this week I've got a small lobster boat painting done. The two Cincinnati paintings are on hold, but Cold Day for Lobsters is now for sale.

March 15, 2009

I just got back from Piotrkow. We personally invited 16 sets of people and have a little less than 40 left. I was saying before, in Poland its traditional to hand delivery wedding invitations. Its much more complex than just dropping them off and waving goodbye. Its normal to enjoy a meal, share stories, drink vodka (for the non drivers), and hang out. I especially like the idea of this, but the down side is all of my weekends are now planned out for wedding invitation delivery.

Its too late to send out an advertisement so I won't do that tonight. I've got another Quoddy Head painting coming up for ebay this Thursday in addition to the one thats ending tonight. The Union Terminal set is now for sale; Each is listed at 275.

March 14, 2009

Justyna and I are going out of town this weekend. We'll be back Sunday night. In Poland its traditional to hand deliver all wedding invitations. There are also two levels of invitation: the church / reception and church part only. I'll send out an advertisement on Sunday when we get back.

March 6, 2009

Midwest - Union Terminal is complete.

The series is arranged in order; please start here or view them in the Midwest landscape gallery to the left.

March 5, 2009

There is a nice Quoddy Head Maine painting up on ebay tonight that'll end Sunday the 15th - 2052 years after Julius. Above I also added a space for an extra painting to make watching auctions easier for frequent visitors. I've completed 8 paintings of the series and it is now done. I've already got good digitals, but the page for them is not completed yet. Please look for those this weekend.

February 20, 2009

I'll be out of town this weekend and will be back either Sunday night or Tuesday night. I'm not sure right at this moment, but I won't have computer access when away. The series of paintings that I am working on is nearly completed and they are impressive. I don't have any sneak previews at this time. I did do a semi quick still life that'll go up on ebay when I get back; see above.

February 12, 2009

No big updates today. I've been wrestling with my printer all night; we're printing our own wedding invitations and the printer and paper were enemies in a past life it seems. As far as painting goes - I'm still working on the series I mentioned below and its coming along great although I had 1 large change to the initial work for one of the paintings. There is a Maine painting on ebay starting tonight; click the image on the top right of this page to be taken to the listing. Have fun everyone.

February 9, 2009

I'm currently hard at work on a series of paintings for a show on this site. I haven't determined exactly how many will be part of the series as I'm still working on the story. I'll have some good smaller works for ebay this week that are not related.

I finally broke down and got up on facebook. That'll be a good place for personal pictures of my adventures in Europe and to keep in touch with friends; feel free to add me.

February 2, 2009

I'm done with some site updates. The galleries links have been changed and sold paintings are now the minority. I made this change because the old layout was overwhelming to new visitors. There are more changes in the future as I complete different series of paintings. I've also cut 5-10% of the html so the site should load slightly quicker.

January 23, 2009

I'm back in the swing of things after being knocked out with some crazy cold for a couple days. I've got a new painting up on ebay and the one from Isle Au Haut will go up soon too. The isle Au Haut painting was actually supposed to be first, but I didn't get it started on Thursday so I'll wait until next for it to start. I did manage to complete a rather unexciting painting while I was feeling totally weak and misserable yesterday (see below).

[painting: rocks and logs underwater]

January 20, 2009

In light of Inauguration Day I painted the painting below from a public domain photo; its very close to being done and I'll stealth update the digital very soon.

[painting: Obama]

Below is a painting of Schoodic Point (edit: SOLD).

January 12, 2009

The painting on the right will start on ebay tonight and end on Thursday the 22nd at 11:16pm (EST). I have this strange feeling there are frog people on ebay waiting for another green friend for their collection; good luck. I've added a couple paintings to the available gallery as well. A geometric oddity as well as two nice Maine paintings. Please check them out. Also don't forget that I put up the journal page; its called "web log" on the menu on the bottom left. The Isle Au Haut painting below will go up on ebay this thursday if it doesn't sell first.

January 11, 2009

I'm still working on the night painting from below. Its proving to be quite a challenge getting the correct tones for viewing in and out of light. I think adding some glow in the dark pigment to the canvas might actually help, but I'm not going to get into that now. Tonight the painting on the right will start on ebay; its 8x10 inches which is a little smaller than my norm, but its a great work. It ends next Sunday just after 11pm (EST). One of the paintings below will go up on ebay later in the week. The other one will go to the gallery here. Both have dates of 2009 :) which means I've been a professional artist for 7 years now and full time for 3. In art terms that means I've just started and have a lot to learn, but don't be afraid as artist's early works are always the most prized in the future. The third painting below is a larger version of a painting I did in 2008 and will be ready for the available gallery here later in the week.

[painting: Isle Au Haut Keepers House Lighthouse]

[painting: Isle Au Haut Keepers House Lighthouse]

[painting: stonington Maine rocks coast]

[painting: monhegan red house manana island]

January 1, 2009

Happy New Year!! Be safe everyone.

Many big thanks to all of my customers in 2008. I just got done marking new sale prices on the 2008 paintings in the available gallery. Most prices were cut by 25% or slightly more; some of those paintings are a great deal so don't miss out. The painting above will be starting on ebay tonight and end Sunday the 11th at 11:15 Eastern. Also, I'm about half done with my first night painting. Here is a sneak peak; this will be finished up Friday, but won't be available until the following week.

[painting: stonington Maine night oil painting]

[painting: stonington Maine night oil painting]

December 29, 2008

We're back. Trip to Piotrkow went fine and my Polish is improving, but still more work to do with it. I don't have any pictures today as the battery poopered out in my camera on the way home. I've got a nice 14x11 Stonington, Maine painting done and a nice sunset from Winterharbor area as well; both will go up on ebay.

December 23, 2008

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday.

We'll be out of town and away from email until the 28th. I'll just have the one painting on ebay until after Christmas and then get back into full time painting mode as the year flips. I'll reduce the prices on some of the 2008 paintings in 2009. Have fun.

December 21, 2008

Our Wedding went perfect. A state wedding is a bigger deal here than in the states. There was a group right after us that must have had 40 people. It was a very basic civil service that took about 15 minutes in all and there was a keyboard player who also played a saw for us. Check the weblog for that one. Our translator did great work and even brought us flowers.

The painting above will start on Ebay tonight (11:16pm EST) and end next Sunday - 7 day auction. I'll most likely add some more to ebay later in the week so they'll end after the new year; this is the opposite of what I did last year.

December 19, 2008

Saturday I'm getting married (state wedding) in Warsaw. It'll take about 30 minutes and I'll have my translator there, and I'm looking forward to it. It takes about 1.5 years to be allowed to marry a Polish girl for someone like me after going through all of the paperwork and what not. The longest part was waiting for the court to allow me, as an American, to not have to show official proof that I am free to get married from the states - this document does not exist. The embassy helps with that situation here. I'm not going to go into the specifics of what is required, but I will recommend to other people in my situation to just go to Las Vegas and save time and money.

May 23rd is the real wedding. I don't have time tonight, but I'll add some pictures of that church to the journal page Sunday night or Monday.

I've got a small handful of paintings done and one of them will be on Ebay Sunday night (7 day auction) and some other ones in the available gallery here including a large Monhegan painting. The painting below of Pope John Paul II is for Justyna's grandparents. Its painted from a popular photo taken when he visited Denver in 1993. BC was omitted. Its for a specific frame and the matt is part of it. I normally don't recomment matting oil paintings, but since the painting is so small 5.75x5.75" I think its okay here.

[painting: pope john paul II denver 1993 oil painting]

[painting: pope john paul II denver 1993 oil painting]

December 4, 2008

The painting on the left will start on ebay tonight and end on Sunday, December 14; its 6x8 inches. The other painting below is from the Birkenau camp which is part of Auschwitz. The scene is from inside the camp and is 8 x 6 inches. If you want the painting let me know. Its free (previous customers only), but it'd be great if you could help with shipping. (edit: the birkenau painting found a collection to be in)

[painting: Oil Painting Birkenau Concentration Camp Poland]

November 28, 2008

The painting on the right will start on ebay tonight and end on Monday, December 8; its 14x11 inches (edit: link fixed). The other two paintings below are 6x8 inches and are daily paintings. They could have made a set, but I opted to vary the backgrounds to build the best color composition. There is a granny smith background and red delicious - each carefully complemented to the fruit. Granny smith apples are quite pricy in Poland so I just bought that one, but the other apples are about 1.70zl per kilogram which is about 30 cents per lb so I consumed some of my potential subjects.

[painting: still life of apple]

[painting: still life of granny smith apple]

November 23, 2008

Happy Birthday James

The Web log page (formerly known as the journal) is back and all of the pages along with it are also up. There is no new content at this moment though, but it'll be possible to add new content now. Firstly I have some pictures from SE Poland to put up and some odds and ends to talk about.

I've been working on several still lives and setting up compositions related to those. Here is the first one that is very near done; the mushrooms and left onions still need some refinement and a shadow. Hopefully I'll get another cloudy day for working on it Monday. edit: work in progress image removed; its completed now (see above)

November 20, 2008

I'm in the middle of putting the journal/web log page back up. Its taking quite a bit of time as there were quite a few different pages that needed to be put in the new format plus image size tags to help with loading. I've got a couple great paintings done that will show up very soon; I think one will start on ebay Friday night. Here are a couple more I've finished these past couple days.

November 13, 2008

Lots of pictures today. Here are some thumbnails of some paintings that will be available soon. I have not decided which will go to ebay and which will not so I don't have large digitals on the site yet, but if you see one you like let me know.

November 4, 2008

Go vote!

I've made a template for 6 x 8 canvas boards (I cut these myself from metric sizes) and I've already started painting on these smaller canvases. I've wanted to work with this smaller size to open up some compositions that would not normally work with a 11x14. The second reason is to be able to paint at least one a day - so thru November be sure to check the site near daily. The paintings will be priced well and some will go up on ebay. Anything goes for subjects.

October 25, 2008

Painting above is on ebay now. I'm actually heading out for the weekend to go to Justyna's Parents and visit. When I get back I'll put the painting below of Cincinnati, Ohio up on ebay too with a low starting bid. Have fun.

October 9, 2008

Justyna and I are both back at work now. I've been goofing around with my camera today trying to get it to take the best possible pictures of paintings as possible; we've made some progress. There are a couple paintings starting on ebay tonight. (first two - click picture to go to auction). There are several others that will be for sale from here. I don't know where to post the Wetlina pictures yet; we might see a return of the journal page.

[painting: Paddock and Vine Street Dealers]

September 26, 2008

Vacation to the south eastern mountain range went decently. It did manage to rain every single minute we were there and we got a low fog the entire time. This actually wasn't as bad as it sounds; we saw real sheep dogs, flocks of sheep, and European mountain life. After getting back to Warsaw I had family in town for the week and now we are going back to Piotrkow to attend a wedding for Justyna's cousin. Its been over two weeks since I've painted and its calling; I hope I havent forgot how to work. I'll post some vacation pictures somewhere to show off the small city of Wetlina and surrounding areas after the wedding. Have fun.

September 15, 2008

I'll be out of town from now until Sunday the 21st. I won't be getting emails or have internet access. I ran out of time to start a painting on ebay, but there is a quick digital of it below. Actually... Justyna is using up a couple weeks of vacation prior to starting a new job and I've been slacking on working as well. Thinking back over the past two weeks we've been busy with projects, events, and an information and welcome meeting at the US embassy here. I'll have some cool stuff to post when we're back. Our wedding date has also been adjusted. Its two weeks earlier; it is now May 23, 2009.

[painting: Monhegan Road Houses Lighthouse]

[painting: Monhegan Road Houses Lighthouse]

September 8, 2008

I'm going to start sending ebay reminder emails to folks that have signed up for them or are previous customers. Let me know if you want to opt in or out. I've got a couple paintings to list, but I'll be out of town from the 16th to the 22nd. Look for a painting to start this Thursday and a couple posted to the available gallery at that time too.

August 21, 2008

The painting to the right starts on ebay tonight and will end on Sunday the 31st. Its has an attractive loose stroke will look good in about any room while not being a focal type painting. Click image to be taken to the auction please; it starts Thursday night at 11:17 eastern.

I just looked over at my drying area and there are quite a few paintings that are not posted here yet so keep an eye out for those in the future. Have fun.

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