Recent Doodles

This boy made an earlier appearance in “Boy With A Balloon.”

As time went on, my fondness for mid-20th century design began to broaden and spread, encompassing the decades of the 40s and 30s and eventually back into the 20s too. It’s not uncommon now for me to move directly from a piece set in present day to one set in the atomic age of the 50s, then the the jazz age of the 20s and back. As stated earlier, the ‘All-American Ads’ books put out by Taschen GmbH help me immeasurably with hair and clothing style, architecture, furnishing trends and color schemes of the time.

This was another example of never knowing where or when you might be inspired. I was walking down the street thinking of what I might paint next. As I passed a fruit market, I saw one orange on the sidewalk…

This was the last painting on which I used a paintbrush to apply the black outlines.

You never know how or where you’ll get inspired. I was walking to the Metropolitan Museum of Art one day, trying to think of an idea for my next painting. I had barely begun, when I passed a really nice-looking Italian restaurant. A waiter was sitting in the front window, just like this. Immediately I liked the idea, and the play on words cinched it for me. I started work on it as soon as I got home from the museum.

Like ‘The Date’, I gave this painting to friends as a housewarming gift.

I remember completing this painting relatvely quickly. Inside of a week, I believe. Swanky cocktail and highball glasses have always appealed to me, and pop up in my work whenever characters are enjoying some libations.

I gave this painting to friends as a housewarming gift.