These are acrylic paintings I have done over the years.
Here are some steps and techniques I prefer to use for acrylic paintings now. Pleaase note, I have not always done this, and sometimes do not do it now. For example, in the past, I used strecthed Belgian linen for my canvases, then I moved to masonite, and then masonite over plywood.
Many of my works are from photos or my versions of other artists work.
Original Watercolor 2025: I used chatGPT to apply a watercolor style to an original phograph of a mountain lion to get a referencce photo.
My version of Willem Kalf'ss still life with Roemer, 2023
Trilobytus Antikythera: Ben Cartwright
original work
Tina Harris: Aaron and Elizabeth Harris
original work
Spiderman: Adam Cartwright
original work of Washington DC in winter
Spiderman vs Black Panther 2016: Ben Cartwright
My version of the original by Simone Peruzzi
Elizabeth Cartwright
original work
My version of Vermeer's, "Lace Maker": 1977
Batman 2012: Adam Cartwright
My version of Alex Ross's original, "Batman: Knight Over Gotham".
2025: I added two coats of Liquitex Gloss Medium as a separator and then Gamvar as a varnish. I removed the matte and reduced the frame size.
Ironman vs Mandolorian
I used chatGPT to generate the base image, which resulted in this painting.
New York from photo about 1965
Sandy Michel: 1975-1977: whereabouts unknown
Willem Kalf: one of many: whereabouts unknown
Since I am color-blind, there is one, where the lemon's inside is green. That's lost too
Bad Chess Player (bad painting): whereabouts unknown; about 1976; sold to Lillian Michel
Colored pencil ~1970-1973 - middle school
Completed at Art Camp about 1973
White T-Shirt is me; Guy with side-burns is Keith Ginsburg; So, this would have been done when I was in elementary school
original work
I've done this painting (colored pencil drawing here) by Willem Kalf many times. This is from a photo in the Time-Life Library of Art
1/3 of fish: whereabouts unknown; Perhaps, 6th grade; about 11-12 years old
pelican painting, 2023
close-up of pelican
Maryland Farm, Ben Cartwright
My version of Young Woman with a Water Pitcher by Johannes Vermeer. The image is poor and was captured from the background in a ~1978 photo of my work at an art fair. Whereabouts unknown.