Author: Darryl

So I was working on “San Francisco Slide” when I posted back in June.  I had to wrap up some loose ends on another project in July and at the moment I’m tightening up two paintings that I started awhile back. I plan to have those completed by week’s end. In the meantime, I’ve been doing a bit more development […]

One of the questions that has come up over the years is why the figures in my jazz series are painted in black.  I want use this forum to address that question. When I decided to produce this series more 20 years ago now, I wanted  to create one in which  the figures were more representational of musician rather than […]

Here I’m refining a sketch for a piece I’m working on and titling “San Francisco Slide”, at the moment (because it’s going to feature at least one trombonist). I’m playing with the angle of the streets to mimic the sloping hills for which the city of San Francisco is famous. I’ll refine it more in the production of the actual […]

These cups have been part of my painting process for almost 20 years. It started with my late grandfather buying them to drink coffee in every morning. I shared with him about how styrofoam cups end up in landfills and are bad for the environment and suggested rather than throwing them away he could give them to me. Well, he […]

Spent this very rainy 40-degree Saturday morning crawling through sketches (sprawled across the bed) for pieces I’ll be working on soon.