Blog index

April 2025

• The Art Life....or At Least My Art Life 4/15/25
  

March 2025

• New Works In Progress 3/30/25
  
• It Begins 3/15/25
  

February 2025

• Brutalism 2/19/25
  

December 2024

• Every now and then... 12/25/24
  

November 2024

• New Gallery 11/4/24
  

August 2024

• A Cat & Her Painter 8/11/24
  

July 2024

• New Painting Begins 7/25/24
  
• Greetings from New York City... 7/22/24
  
• Emptiness 7/1/24
  

June 2024

• Cleaned Up and Reorganized 6/29/24
  

April 2024

• Coffee Table Aesthetics 4/10/24
  
• Ford P R McLain's "The Fog of Love" Art Show - October 4, 2024 4/1/24
  

March 2024

• A Painter and His Cat 3/30/24
  
• Painting and Oreos 3/2/24
  

February 2024

• With the latest 2/15/24
  

December 2023

• It IS good to be the painter. 12/25/23
  
• It IS good to be the painter. 12/25/23
  
• New Canvas, Pt. 2 12/3/23
  
• New Canvas 12/2/23
  

November 2023

• The Latest 11/25/23
  

October 2023

• Albany Center Gallery Member Show 10/26/23
  
• Coming Soon... 10/24/23
  
• Painting on a Rainy Saturday 10/21/23
  
• One Year Later... 10/10/23
  

August 2023

• A Cat and Her Painter 8/9/23
  
• Art In Progress 8/1/23
  

July 2023

• In the Studio 7/17/23
  
• Time for a Big Painting 7/10/23
  

June 2023

• Coming Soon: The Fog of Love 6/15/23
  

April 2023

• On The Air 4/2/23
  

March 2023

• Studies for the Soul 3/21/23
  

February 2023

• Old Cliches That Do An Artist No Good 2/23/23
  
• Ascension 2/12/23
  
• The Cloister on February 7, 2023 2/7/23
  

January 2023

• Coffee Cup 1/2/23
  

December 2022

• Last Day of the Year 12/31/22
  
• What Does Santa Do Off Season? 12/25/22
  

October 2022

• Content 10/14/22
  

August 2022

• The Life of a Painter's Cat 8/2/22
  

July 2022

• No Better Place To Hide 7/24/22
  

May 2022

• Life In My Cloister 5/27/22
  

March 2022

• Lo Spirito Della Scala 3/28/22
  

December 2021

• The Last Book Of The Year 12/27/21
  
• New Coffee Cup 12/25/21
  
• Work Space 12/19/21
  

November 2021

• The Cloister on a Sunday Morning 11/7/21
  

September 2021

• T-shirts for Sale 9/25/21
  

August 2021

• Sunday Times 8/22/21
  
• Dance Haiku 8/12/21
  
• New Painting Project 8/11/21
  
• Dance and Primitive Abstract Art 8/9/21
  
• Breakfast Haiku 8/5/21
  
• The Great American Novel 8/1/21
  
• Sunday Morning Cigar 8/1/21
  

July 2021

• Great American Novel...in progress 7/18/21
  
• Il Pittore resta. 7/15/21
  
• July 4, 2021 7/4/21
  

June 2021

• Sunrise and cigar 6/25/21
  
• Painting on a Sunday 6/20/21
  
• Gateway Painter 6/15/21
  
• The Great American Novel begins 6/7/21
  
• Ready for a Summer of Art 6/6/21
  
• 115th Cigar Photo 6/5/21
  
• My Top Ten Bob Dylan Songs 6/1/21
  

May 2021

• The Summer Painting Project Begins 5/31/21
  
• The Great American Novel 5/28/21
  
• Enthroned 5/26/21
  
• New Canvas Backing 5/22/21
  
• Blue skies 5/15/21
  
• Whitman With A Paintbrush? 5/11/21
  
• Calico 5/6/21
  
• New Painting in Progress 5/2/21
  

April 2021

• Painter At Rest 4/21/21
  
• Whitman With A Paintbrush? 4/16/21
  
• A Work In Progress 4/9/21
  
• These Boots Were Made For Painting 4/8/21
  
• No Idea 4/3/21
  

March 2021

• The Cloister 3/30/21
  
• Still Life 3/29/21
  
• Freshly Primed 3/27/21
  
• "Inside the Dream Palace", by Sherrill Tippins (2013) 3/25/21
  
• Monk In A Mosh Pit 3/20/21
  
• In il chiostro 3/19/21
  
• Posters Available 3/15/21
  
• Coffee Cup 3/12/21
  

November 2020

• Twenty Five Years 11/1/20
  

September 2020

• Two Pieces Showing at an Art Gallery in October 9/25/20
  

August 2020

• E-Bay 8/8/20
  
• Friday Night In The Cloister 8/7/20
  

June 2020

• All The Universe Is In A Cup Of Coffee 6/17/20
  

May 2020

• Painter At Work 5/21/20
  
• The next painting 5/16/20
  
• Deconstruction/Reconstruction 5/9/20
  

April 2020

• Perspective on Art 4/26/20
  
• New Easel 4/20/20
  

March 2020

• "Temporarily Closed" 3/27/20
  

January 2020

• Tree Awaits A Dreamer 1/5/20
  
• Coming Soon... 1/1/20
  

December 2019

• Books Read 12/31/19
  
• Do you have to be an asshole to be a great artist? 12/29/19
  
• Must an Artist Suffer To Create Great Art? 12/29/19
  
• Back to the Desert 12/26/19
  
• The Zen of Creativity 12/21/19
  

November 2019

• Sometimes the Painter Cleans Up Well 11/5/19
  

October 2019

• Monk on a Mountainside 10/20/19
  

July 2019

• Coffee-based Paint 7/20/19
  
• Passion of the Primitive 7/11/19
  
• Reorganized 7/7/19
  
• A Naked You 7/2/19
  

June 2019

• Coffee Cups for Sale 6/4/19
  

May 2019

• "Dirty Thoughts" for Sale 5/9/19
  

February 2019

• New Art in 2019 2/28/19
  

November 2018

• New shows 11/23/18
  

October 2017

• ...timeandapace... 10/28/17
  
• ...timeandapace... 10/28/17
  
• Soul Trip (1955) 10/11/17
  

September 2017

• Back on the Road 9/10/17
  

July 2017

• Video Tour of Black, Red and White Painting 7/9/17
  

September 2016

• A Good Summer 9/5/16
  

July 2016

• Recovery 7/18/16
  

June 2016

• New Muse, New Visions, Part 2 6/27/16
  
• New Muse, New Visions Show 6/10/16
  

March 2011

• Passion of the Primitive - Talk at Upstate Artists Guild 3/3/11
  

December 2010

• Enjoy a Good Meal and American Primitive Paintings at Ramona's 12/12/10
  
• "Aldonza" to Be Contributed to Albany's Wine and Dine Fest 12/12/10
  

November 2010

• Piece to Be Shown at Albany Center Gallery's Member Show 11/4/10
  
• New Piece to Be Auctioned Off at Albany Center Gallery Event 11/4/10
  

October 2010

• "Road Trip 1955" 10/27/10
  
• Two Paintings at Ramona's 10/27/10
  
• February 2011 Show at Upstate Artist's Guild 10/27/10
  
• Happy Birthday to Pablo Picasso 10/25/10
  
• Art for AIDS Sake 10/24/10
  
• New Painting: Utopia 2.0 10/17/10
  
• Sold 10/14/10
  
• Updated Profile at Model Mayhem 10/13/10
  
• Notes of an American Primitive 10/13/10
  
• Armchair in Cloister Up for Silent Auction, Arts for AIDS Sake 10/13/10
  
• Paintings in Progress 10/11/10
  

January 2010

• Productive Year Moving Forward 1/5/10
  

October 2009

• Two New Pieces at Upstate Artists Guild Fresh Produce Show 10/21/09
  

August 2009

• Promotional Poster for American Primitive Showing 8/10/09
  

July 2009

• Come see "American Primitive: The Movie" 7/26/09
  
• New Gallery - Cheeseburgers to Go 7/19/09
  
• Painter Seeks Muses/Collaborators for Armchair 7/18/09
  

June 2009

• Midtown Tap and Tea Room 6/22/09