Rose detail Acrylic on gessoed hardboard


A Change of Season detail Acrylic on gessoed hardboard.


I’m exploring the possibility of conducting an acrylic portrait painting workshop. This would be a one day session held in Downers Grove, IL, most likely in May. If you think it’s something you might be interested in, just send me an email. I’ll post more details as they become available.

Here are four quick, little landscape sketches done with acrylic on illustration board about 6x8” in size. The first three used the photo below as a starting point. As you can see, the picture was merely a jumping off point and the paintings went from there. In fact, by the time I made it to the third one, I was inspired more by the previous sketches than the original photo. Now the road had become a canal and the daylight turned to moonlight.









This last sketch was done after walking the dog around a local park. We’d had a fresh snowfall the night before and as the skies cleared we had scenes of warm sunlight against cool blue shadows. Lots of color in that “white” snow.

I have added new page on Facebook that will allow me to keep my personal artwork separate from other projects. From now on status updates and links to this blog will happen there. You can find me on Facebook listed as Walker Brush Works, or by clicking the link in the sidebar.

The Letter • 20x24” Acrylic on gessoed hardboard

The Letter is one of those paintings that I had kicking around in my head for weeks. My idea was to create a piece that set the stage, presented the framework of a story, but left the explanation of exactly what was happening, (what the contents of the letter may be, what the woman is feeling), open to the viewer’s interpretation.

I planned a scene carried by the soft illumination of diffused light coming through a window on an overcast day and luckily my model was available at the right time.The pose worked out just as I had hoped and she fell into that faraway, deep in thought look I was after.




The Letter detail

Twilight Maple • Acrylic on Strathmore board 17x14.5”


Twilight Maple detail

Twilight Maple is another landscape painting finished in January. The scene is completely created from imagination, although the major elements come from direct observation. In fact the sky is taken from a fairly recent sunset, one of those that prompted the comment, “Gee, if I painted this viewers would think I made it up.” Well, that’s what it looked like, and here it is!