Trompe L’oeil

“Studio Study”

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I’ve Been painting glass objects for many years. My studio has a collection of old bottles I started collecting when I was a kid. I also have a collection of old marbles, my wife says that I am collecting all of the marbles that I have lost. The pitcher in this painting is a Lusterware pitcher my aunt Beda gave my mother years ago and I thought it would be a challenge to paint the copper colors. My younger brother said he noticed I learned to paint objects by painting them over and over until I got them right. This painting was done in November for an article on still life painting in the January 2019 Issue of American Art Collector Magazine.

Studio Study

Title: Studio Study
Size: 16″x14″
Price: $1800.00
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

 

 

 

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“Pasture View”

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Ideas for my window paintings usually start with something I’ve seen. In this painting my wife Cindy and I had gone up to a wedding near Charlotte, NC. The cows in the painting were in the field behind where the wedding took place. The porcelain rabbits came from photos I had. The vase of flower were some Cindy had put together and the other flowers came out of our yard. All of these objects came together to become this painting. 

Pasture View

Title: Pasture View
Size: 60″x48″
Price: $9200.00
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

 

 

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“Seed King”

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This window was finished spring of 2017. We had been having problems with squirrels in our attic, so I did a few paintings with squirrels in them. This is the second one in the series. It has a squirrel looking out a window at a field of sunflowers, because every squirrel wishes they had their own field of sunflowers. We have two “bird” feeders which I keep filled with sunflower seeds. The squirrels let the birds have some, sometimes.

Title: Seed King
Size: 60″ x 48″
Price: $9200.00
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

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“Tale of the Silent Crow”

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One of Richard’s latest pieces “Tale of the Silent Crow” was completed at the beginning of this year. It is just one of many in a series of trompe-l’oeil windowscapes with birds and other creatures involved. This one entails crows throughout the painting. Richard stated “I think crows are interesting; the one on the window ledge I photographed in a parking lot at the beach years ago. I like his pose and finally put him into one of my paintings. He seems to be trying to talk to the crow inside of the window, a decoy, the silent crow.” He went on to explain the detail and color used in this work. “On the perimeter of the window I used a different texture that I haven’t used before. I also cut 30 leaves out of canvas, painted each one, then attached them to the canvas. As you can see some of them (leaves) extending beyond the edge of the canvas.”

Title: Tale of the Silent Crow
Size: 48″ x 52″
Price: $8500.00

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“Bird of a Diifferent Feather”

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Title: Bird of a Different Feather
Size: 60″ x 36″
Price: $9200.00

Most of my windows are done as if the viewer were outside looking in at a still life, with a reflection of what’s outside. The reflection covers the upper section of the windows, and sometimes covers parts of the still life. This painting is different because I’ve painted the window panes as if they were broken to go with the broken brick around the window frame, I wanted the painting to look like a section of brick wall that has been torn out with a window in it. Ive created this painting by attaching smaller canvases to the sides of a larger one, and then framing in wood, more wood was then added. The wood was then carved and painted to make it look like old brick. I like the abstract shape of the painting. In the window is a collection of bird eggs, a cobalt blue bottle with feathers in it, and a strange looking antique wooden toy duck. There is a couple of Carolina wrens that have come in through the broken window. They are fussing at the strange looking duck as if accusing it of steeling the eggs. All of my windows have a story behind them… This one would start with “Once upon a time there was a bird of a different feather…” The rest of the story I leave up to the imagination of the viewer. This was the first painting that was finished after my cancer treatments and was shown in the 2014 ArtFields. 

 

 

 

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“Neighbors”

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This painting is called “Neighbors”. As with all my windows, this one is painted as if you were outside looking in. There is a reflection of a Neighbors house in the upper part of the window and a still life with a cat in the lower part. The “Neighbors” the title refers to are the natural ones outside the window. They include: the squirrel, a Carolina Wren, a lizard, a Tree Frog, two Butterflies, a Hummingbird, a Grasshopper, and a Lady bug. The Cat in the window is one of my cats. I love my cat, but at first it was complicated for me to have her in the house due to my allergies. Even though I was having a hard time I didn’t want to get rid of her, so I began to learn more about alternative mediciine that could help with my allergies. I don’t regret all that research, she is very special because she brings flowers to the door of our home. She started this 7-8 years ago. The first time I saw her carrying one, I thought she had a Cardinal. She saw me coming, dropped it, and walked away. The flower was a Camellia that had dropped off the bush. Some days she will bring 15-20 blossoms up the driveway to the door. My wife is a florist and likes the flowers better than what our other cats bring to the door. I’ve been lucky a few times to get pictures of her carrying flowers.

This painting was hanging at the Lake City Public Library and Technology Center for ArtFields in Lake City, SC On Main St. (April 24-May 2, 2015)

Title: Neighbors
Size: 48″ x 60″
Price: $8500.00

 

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