This is based on a portrait of a friend. Despite all the decoration she is still clearly there!
Hungarian Woman 111
portrait
Woman, With Hair
Double Take!
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A Portrait of a Woman of Power and Judgment
A digital portrait, done from scratch on my Wacom tablet.
Girl with Stuffed Animal, watercolor painting
In private collection
Woman in a Van Gogh Field
I joined with two other artists in Valencia to hire a model with whom we enjoyed working. She is able to hold long poses. Over three hours I painted her in acrylics and later added the clothing and background. I took as inspiration for the background the landscape paintings of Van Gogh, with a twist.
Portrait of Young Man, pastels, after the Rubens sketch
Portrait of Young Man, pastels, after the Rubens sketch. Rubens and other artists of the time would use the same figure in multiple paintings.
English Woman, charcoal portrait
At a bar in the Russafa neighborhood of Valencia I did this charcoal portrait of an English woman.
Us in a field in Pennsylvania
Us In a Field in Pennsylvania, digital painting
Matteo
Matteo was my mother’s brother. He was born in Partanna, Sicily in 1893. His last name differed from his siblings. This anomaly has been prodding my curiosity for several years. Recently I wrote to Partanna to request his birth certificate. Unlike others I’d received, this one did not show his parents. Then I requested a copy of his Social Security application. There he named his father. Assuming he had the facts correct, now we know his father’s name. But what happened to his father? His mother, my grandmother, remarried when Matteo was around 5 years old.
He immigrated in 1915. I remember him teaching me to use utensils the continental way, fork in left and knife in right, and now switching back and forth. He was a very quiet guy as I recall him. My brother me he was quite active in the garment workers union in NYC, as was his sister Anna (Annette). He married a woman named Nellie who died in the early 1940’s. I think they married in Newark, at least I found a record of a Matthew and Nellie in the marriage records and as this is a uncommon combination of names it’s likely to be them. He died when I about 10 years old.
