Laura

This is a painting I started a year or more ago. It hangs over my computer and I look at it to try and figure out how to fix it. The hands need work and the perspective got a little messed up.
This is from a photo I took back when Laura was visiting us in New York. It was before she moved to Florida, so she must have been in the first grade? She had a great time playing with Stumpy on that visit!

Buz

This a portrait of my dad done at around the same time I did Ian's portrait. This was from an old photo of him taken in the 50's. The face and background were done with pieces of stain glass and the border tiles are my handpainted tiles.

Family Portraits

I have a bunch of portraits of family members in various stages of unfinished.
Ian's tile portrait got me thinking about posting some of those works here.

It is hard for me to finish paintings, much easier for me to finish tile work because once you make the tile, then glue it down and grout it, I'd say it is finished. But when you do a painting you can always go back and add more paint, touch up the face, paint over a portion and re-do it. It can be unfinshed, forever a work in pprogress.

Ian

Here is Ian

New blog!

While I wait for Ian to work on my website, I thought I would go ahead and make a blog pertaining to my tiles! Here is a stepping stone to honor our sweet dog Stumpy.