East Leyden Alum Pat Skoff visted with my students and did this demo.  Thanks so much.  Look for Skoffs art hunts all over Chicago land.

6x6 inch oil painting demo for my painting students.  

Happy Holidays

Outdoor Christmas Lights.  I Zoomed the lens during the exposure to achieve this effect.  

Great Holiday image of a home in River Forest.  

Thatcher woods in River Forest Il.  10X10 oil on canvas.  Unframed   $50.00

If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, why practice?

This is an image of a seagulls skull I found on the shores of Lake Michigan. 

8X10 Oil 

Chicago river 

$50.00

Cook County Forest 

11X14 Oil 

$50.00

Cook County Forest

4x4

Oil $50.00

10x10 Cook county Forest 

Oil 

$60.00

Cook County Forest 

9X12

Oil 

$60.00

Western Illinois

framed 8x10

Oil on board 

$.85.00

6x6 oil plane study.  Origami Elephant

SOLD

The Two Princes, National Portrait Gallery

Door County Plein Air oil 6X12, Painting on the east shore of Door County near Rowling bay.

SOLD

SOLD

These are all works on small canvas.  Oil, Chicago river, Montrose harbor, Door county Wis.

Plein Air Summer painting.  I will see you again in the spring.

More students.  Very talented artist. If only they would just listen.

Art students in the court yard at the Louver in Paris.

A huanted house drawing demo at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Cartoon drawing class.  Pirty scarrrrry… a kids…...

What a great painting!  It was a perfect day for painting out side.

West Leyden Art Student on a recent plein air painting session at Schiller woods.   Great job!

I recently recieved a gift of a pen and a letter opener.  I will use my pen to write notes on my crome book and my letter opener to open all my important emails.

Three Advanced Art Students working on a side walk chalk drawing At West Leydens inner court yard.

Nice chalk drawing by West Leyden Art Students.

West Leyden Art Student working on a Super Hero sidewalk chalk drawing.

Design Postage stamp.

Painting Student working on her Master Copy Project at West Leyden.

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A day at the museum

10x10 inch oil painting of and Art student at the Art Institute of Chicago

Recent Oil painting thats 4x4.  Location Door county Wis.

Drawing I students working on hiden symbols in a pattern study.  Really creative!!!

Advanced art students working on a symetrical and asymetrical project.  Great effort guys, the images look awesome!!!

"I find television very educational for the arts.  Every time somebody turns on the flat screen TV, I go into the other room and create a painting or drawing."

West Leyden Drawing I student working on his pattern design.  This kid is awesome.

West Leyden Art Student working on her design project.

Plein Air Monroe Street Bridge Chicago "bang bang"  Oil 10x10.

This is a 10X10 inch oil painting done in Plein Air in Door County WI.  Titled "Beach Lane" not to be confused with Beach Road which is 20 feet to the left.  Framed and ready to go.

This is a recent plein air painting in downtown Chicago bang bang.  Its oil on a 10x10 canvas. This marks the end of the summer and start of the new school year.  Good luck to all my art students.  I look forward to working with you this school year. Now show me what you can do.

This is a recent plein air painting from Door Count Wis.  on Beach Road outside of Sisterbay.

I prefer to remain an enigma. Or a conundrum.  I forget which.