day panes

oil on paper in 4 pieces.  approximately 5 x 3 feet

night panes

oil on paper in 4 pieces. approximately 5 x 3 feet

snow

oil on linen

on paper

this piece is something I don't completely understand yet.  oil on paper on gouache on paper on the wall. done at the Vermont Studio Center

painting from the model

during the first week of my residency I was able to wake up early enough to take advantage of the life drawing sessions.  first time painting from the model in about 3 years.  here are a couple of gouaches

small paintings from the vermont studio center

all done during my january residency up in Johnson, Vermont.  oil on paper

Vermont Studio Center residency

A shot of my studio and details of work from my January residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
Expect better images soon.

N.O.L.A. Open Studios

Saturday Nov. 12th come check out our studios at Dauphine and Desire in the Bywater, and while you're at it check out a bunch of other artist studios in the area.  Noon - 6 PM.

 www.nolaopenstudio.com

a portrait

If you want to see these larger, click on them and then click the "show original" button to the left of the image

in the studio

a few large paintings in the works 

small paintings

from the past few months, during which i've been making frames while

looking at 

Fairfield Porter

Bonnard

Lovis Corinth

Morandi

reading

Justin Spring's biography of Fairfield Porter

T.S. Eliot's Wasteland and other poems

watching

Twin Peaks

Freaks and Geeks

True Blood

and listening to

Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem

Mount Eerie - Song Islands Volume 2

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞ 

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Paul Simon - Paul Simon

Sandy Bull - Re-Inventions

7 x 6 in

oil on paper

oil on paper

7.5 x 9 in

oil o paper

oil on linen (on panel)

oil on board

oil on linen

new website.

an easier way to look through my work from the past few years -  patchsomerville.com !

camellia throne

photo collage

53 x 44 inches

patio set

photo collage

59 x 60 inches

postcards

some postcards i've mailed out in the past few months

 first 2 are watercolor and the rest acrylic

new collages

Royalty

5 x 5.25 in

Morning

8.25 x 6 in

Rabbit Ears

8 x 8.5 in

Untitled

16.5 x 13.75 in