I like to take old black and white photographs as pieces in colorful paintings.   This is a collage of four different photos - the house, car, motorcycle, and the biplane.  The plane is called a Curtis JN-4 Canuck, painted from a photo by Don Parsons, (permission provided).

18 x 24 inch oil on canvas

Kathe Kollwitz

Kathe Kollwitz was an engraver and artist from Germany who focused on anti-war messages and the plight of the poor.

12 x 12 inches oil on canvas board

Shackleton portrait

Portrait of Ernest Shackleton, explorer of the Antarctic and expedition leader.  Oil on canvas board. 

Survivor, Researcher

Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi war criminal hunter.   In an interview someone asked him if he considered himself an Historian (after having written a number of books)... He said no, he's more of a Researcher.  In a speech he asked that people not consider him a Hero.... Rather, he said, every day of his life after WWII he has considered himself just a Survivor who could not let the victims down.  He had to search for justice for the victims.  12 x 12 inches, oil on canvas panel.  

Overcome

Image painted based on a B&W photo of a soldier overcome by the reality of a Nazi concentration / death camp at the end of WWII.  12 x 9 inches watercolor on watercolor paper.

One Starry Night

Digital sketch of Van Gogh based on one if his pencil self portraits. 

Battle of the Somme

Scene from the Battle of the Somme documentary.   The battle lasted over 4 months and resulted in over a million killed or wounded.

36 x 48 inches, oil on canvas.

War Child

From a black and white photograph of a confict in Africa.  30 x 40 inches oil on canvas.

Shackleton and crew arrive on Elephant Island

I took an old B&W photo from the famous Antarctic expedition and enlarged it in color and oil paint.

36 x 24 inches oil on canvas

Cart and Woman in Old Bavaria

A painting I did years ago based on an old black and white photo of a scene in Germany.

Acrylic, I think it is about 12 x 8 inches or so, on canvas board.

Mandela

Nelson Mandela drawing

12 x 9 inches charcoal on heavy watercolor paper.

Wassily Kandinsky in oil pastels

Wassily Kandinsky,    He is known as one of the first abstract artists.   I've surrounded him (background, and in his clothes) with elements of four of his paintings.  

Oil pastels on 9.5 x 12 inches 170lb pastel card.   

Kathe Kollwitz in oil pastels

Kathe Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war. (Wikipedia)

9.5 x 12 inches on heavy pastel card  $46

Picasso in oil pastels

Pablo Picasso in oil pastels.  

9.5 x 12 inches on heavy pastel card.  $46

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman oil pastels on 9.5 x 12 inches 170lb pastel card. $46

Albert Einstein in oil pastels

My first portrait in oils. 20 x 16 oil on canvas.   Sold to a friend.

Shackleton and Hurley, 1915

From a photo of Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, and his photographer, Frank Hurley. They, along with 26 others, were stranded on the ice for about 18 months, trying to survive and get back to civilization.  

In the photo, his face clearly carries the burden of getting all his men back alive “Though he was virtually fearless in the physical sense, he suffered an almost pathological dread of losing control of the situation….He felt he had gotten them into this situation and it was his responsibility to get them out.”

16x20 acrylic on canvas. $360



Nathan Hale boyhood home

This is where Nathan Hale grew up, in Connecticut.  Acrylic.  This was sold to as an auction item to a group that was raising funds for the upkeep of the Hale home!    One thing that sort of bothers me about this painting...that horse should have had his head down in the grass like most horses do most of the time.

Confrontation 1991

This is a sort of impressionist painting of an event I faced in Iraq in 1991, late at night we had a very close confrontation with Iraqi soldiers in the desert. 

14 x 11 acrylic on canvas

Lincoln and Flag (#3)

Acrylic on canvas board.