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Thanks for featuring me and my business in Chicago Real Producers Magazine, Andy Burton and Emily Broese Burton. Looks great. Providing realtors with closing gifts for 15+ years has been a big part of my business.

I’m thankful that my career as an artist/painter makes so many people happy during the holiday season. For 18 yrs I’ve been producing commissioned paintings for customers and I love the anticipation of Christmas Day when they are given as gifts. #painting #paintings #commission #fineart #gallery #artgallery #gifts #artwork #art #christmas

Realtors, I have the perfect closing gifts for you. Commissioned house portraits, Large and small framed prints of Chicago paintings, and gift cards. Your one stop shop. Be original with your closing gift ideas!!!

Second painting that I delivered to Grosse Pointe this past Sunday. Up on the wall of the customer’s home. 40” x 84”. Big one.

Earlier this year I produced 4 HUGE commissioned paintings for the Houston Methodist Walter Tower Hospital. The company that hired me for the project just sent over some pics of them framed and installed in the space. Very pleased with how they look.

This was a big project. Finally finished it about a month ago and had it shipped to Philadelphia via Museum Services Inc. It arrived safely and the customer has it up on the wall. Doesn’t it look great? 5 ft by 7 ft. I really enjoy working on very large canvases. The thing is, you

Over the last few years I’ve become close friends with Whitney Reynolds… and she has become a fan of my paintings. Whitney is the host of her own talk show on PBS. This past year she asked if some of my artwork could be on the set of the show. Here’s a pic of how

Paying Attention to Detail As an artist whose work is very realistic, it’s important for me to make sure that I pay attention to detail. To every little detail. My wife often remarks that she can’t understand how I make such beautifully detailed paintings but I leave my clothes laying around and I don’t pick

The Importance of Art in the World There was a time when every American was very familiar with images like this. Illustrations were everywhere. This illustration was produced by my Father back in the 1950’s. A free-lance illustrator for all of the ad agencies in New York. The shift from people who could render things