Philip De Laszlo painting video

I was really surprised to see that something like this even existed. I feel this is a real treasure, a film of the Hungarian portrait painter Philip De Laszlo (1869-1937) working on a painting in 1928:

'The Girl in Red' painting video

still working on this painting...

starting a new portrait...

this is a new portrait painting we are starting in class...

cast study

this is a sketch I was working on with students at the Wethersfield Art Academy of one of those "plane" man busts:

Painting a Still Life Part 4

This segment shows increasing development of the painting:

painting in progress

I am still working on this painting. Usually I paint quicker, but this one has just so much detail its taking awhile. But I am enjoying it...hope to finish soon:

Lois Wiley painting

This is a painting I have in my studio. It is my great-grandmother, Lois Wiley (1886-1918) of Troy Alabama. It was painted by her aunt (my three great aunt), Ella Murphree (1868-1929) who was an amateur miniature painter.

Lois, the girl in the painting, died in the flu epidemic of 1918 at age 32. She was an amateur poet. I have one of her poems hanging in my studio. It goes:

 There is a mystic subtle something 
 not discernable in kind,
 like a mirrored strata reflecting
 secret channels of the mind.

 It belongs to those who spiritually see
 who with discernment hear,
 who can feel the pulse of the value of things,
 know truth from its shining veneer.

 It would seem that God had leaned in love
 with a gift for a favored lot,
 were it not that the gain was offset by pain
 from those who have eyes but see not.