Are you interested in buying one of my paintings?

Personally, I like to think that a little painting makes a great gift for the in-laws, or a fun way to tastefully personalize a desk at the office.

The daily paintings that are marked "available for sale" cost $100 each. I know the quality varies widely and that some are stinkers, but I would go bananas if I had to figure out how much to charge for each painting individually.

This price includes shipping and sales tax. If you would like to purchase a painting, e-mail me, and include in the e-mail the number and name of the painting. For example: "#163 Rubberband Ball" will tell me specifically which rubberband ball painting you are interested in. I'm not internet-savvy enough yet to have a paypal account, so you will have to pay me by means of the archaic method of mailing an actual check through the postal service.

Please keep in mind that oil paints take some time to dry, so if you purchase a recent painting, it may be couple of weeks before I can put it in an envelope.

Here is my e-mail address for you:

I particularly like getting e-mail that isn't spam, which is why my e-mail address is an image instead of a link. This assures that I will not have to dig through cheap rolex and viagra advertisements to get to your very important e-mail. My apologies for the inconvenience.

About the daily paintings: up through May they are all (very) approximately six by eight inches. Some of the rectangles are, well, not quite rectangular. In May I started painting on boards that are exactly nine by twelve inches.

These are unvarnished oil paintings. They are painted on two types of material. The first eighty-five or so paintings are on illustration board, and beyond that they are painted on masonite. What are illustration board and masonite, you ask? Illustration board is essentially card-stock with paper glued to it. It is generally used by, you guessed it, illustrators, in place of canvass or paper. Masonite is a dark brown wood-pulp board commonly used in furniture as the backs of drawers and desks. It is also used regularly by artists as a painting surface. It is sometimes called "hardboard".

The paintings on illustration board include white space around the edges, which I have cropped off in my photos. (Why are they like that, you ask? I thought it was a good idea at the time, silly me.) These paintings look best framed, with that white edge cropped off or covered by the frame. The more recent masonite paintings are painted all the way to the edge, so that they look decent even without a frame. Without frames, they can be propped on a shelf or they can sit upon on the heads of two thumbtacks on a wall.

Here is a comparison of the three types, with some scale reference. On the left is one of the approximately six-by-nine masonite panels. Second from the left is one of the newer nine-by-twelve masonite panels. On the right is one of the (very approximately) six-by-nine illustration boards. Second from the right is an example of one of the illustration board paintings in a frame and under glass. And the altoids box is just an altoids box.

I don't sell my paintings framed, because the cost of mailing a frame is prohibitive. However, if you are a resident of Norwood, Massachusetts, or thereabouts, I recommend Custom Art Framing. They did the nice black frame in the image above.