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My work

My oils and watercolors are of course each unique.

I sometimes work in series that have themes (for example, “wings” or “forests”).

And sometimes I just paint what I feel without a theme or limit.

I often title paintings after how they make me feel, or how they’re similar in some way to something I read about, or see in the media, or overhear from a friend. Sometimes my friends look at a work, and they just blurt out the perfect name.

Oils

A lot of artists I’ve spoken to started out in other media, and then went to oils, some don’t even do oils exclusively. Others just started out wanting to do oils.

I’m in the latter group. I started out doing oils. Most of the work I do is oils.

With oils, there is just so much material there to move around, and the extended drying time (with the ability to resoften it as needed) gives a person s lot longer to keep moving it around.

Watercolors

Watercolors is my area of experimentation right now. They are so quick to dry. You can do wet paper and get subtle effects you have to learn to control. It’s interesting to see what they bring out.

Prints

There are two kinds of prints I make:

Regular prints

These are high-quality prints, which I order by hand in small batches, usually from high quality digital captures that my son (Gabriel Ferrante, a very talented photographer) shoots from my work.

Signed and numbered prints

These are printed in limited series.

I sign each print by hand.

They’re always produced with the same quality standards as my regular prints.

I also include with each print a series certificate that guarantees the integrity of the series. This means I will never print more than that count of that print, and you will know the exact sequence of the print in its printing run.

Framing

Generally the oils I make, I also frame.

Generally, my prints come without a frame.

There can be exceptions, and for those, you can choose to not have me frame that particular oil, watercolor or print for you, because you’d rather frame it, or get it framed, yourself.

How I choose framing.

I crawl local antique shops and buy frames that will be used for my art. In some cases I work with my framer to create or build a particular frame for a piece.

Who I work with for framing.

I usually work with John Clements from Zephyr Designs.

John has a very intuitive and simple approach to framing, focusing on sizing, matting color contrast, and frame color contrast, that always brings out the best in my work. I highly recommend him.