To create a good accurate painting is a lot of work. I usually learn to hate the painting before it is finished – it never comes as easy as I hope for. A portrait may take two or three months to complete, but when I am done, I know that person to their very soul. If I don’t, I have not done my job well. It is amazing what you can learn about someone by intensely studying their face.

I love to paint and create pictures. I try to do them as accurately as possible so the viewer feels what I feel and has no doubts about what the painting is all about or the mood it creates. I want to paint life as it is – not what I think it should be. 

This is a portrait in oils of my wife and dog at Drifted Beach on Jekyll Island, Ga.