My form of art is reverse painting on glass – not the fine-lined delicate paintings of long ago but big, chunky, irreverent and bawdy paintings.  They are intended to make you smile and maybe even chuckle.  I am fascinated by the general goofiness of life – my subject matter is always people. 

Reverse painting suits me perfectly.  The technique is very challenging as I paint on one side of the glass and view it from the other.  I am forced to turn my thinking process around.  Instead of applying layers of paint to a canvas and finishing with highlights, such as the gleam in the eyes, I must start with the highlights and then work backward from there.  It is fairly fast because once I lay down paint, it doesn’t move – I’m pretty much stuck with it.  I usually paint on old windows.  They have such character and I love the rusted out old hardware attached.  They seem to lend themselves to my big, chunky subject matter, not to mention the fact that they come with their own