by MG | Nov 23, 2014 | All Articles, Peace In The Valley
PEACE IN THE VALLEY Peace In The Valley, is the cover of Willie Nelson’s album of the same title. The painting is a 6’ x 6’ allegorical depiction of the classic gospel song as recorded by Willie Nelson. For more on the cover painting see: Willie Nelson –...
by MG | Nov 23, 2011 | All Articles, Pasaje Picasso, Portraits
I wanted to walk in Picasso’s footsteps (Pasaje Picasso) and needed to learn Spanish better first so that I could get off the tourist path. I spent a year before my first trip to Spain studying Spanish in Latin America. One country I studied in was Ecuador...
by MG | Nov 23, 2011 | All Articles, Portraits, Voyage Van Gogh
Painted after Van Gogh. Portrait of Dr. Gachet. Dr. Gachet watched over Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise. Van Gogh painted two versions. In 1990, the other version sold for $82.5 million. I sold this painting for a much, much, smaller fortune. Ironically, I still got...
by MG | Nov 23, 2011 | All Articles, Peace In The Valley
Even though the painting has intentional symbolic representations varying in degrees of disclosure, one was quite unintentional – at least by the artist. Being unsatisfied with the way Willie‘s shirt looked in the area shown in the enlarged box (left), MacDonald...
by MG | Nov 19, 2011 | All Articles, Flowers
This is one of my favorite paintings. I painted it in about 10 minutes. I have paintings that I have spent days, even weeks or more on, then absolutely hated them….
by MG | Nov 19, 2011 | All Articles, Claude Monet
I had only visited the UK once before I painted this painting after Monet. I found the paintings of the Palace of Westminster (British Parliament) very intriguing because after seeing the actual painting noted that the pictures never really looked like...
