Cafe du Monde

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Wess Foreman

The Magician

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Wess Foreman

someday fly

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Wess Foreman

Update 8/11/16 ---I replaced the original image of the painting with the new painting (the painting was stretched to a slightly wider size and parts were repainted . . . notably, the edges were fixed and the diagonal leg of the swing set was removed and I added the bright red and yellow squares of color throughout the painting). I like the new look even better.

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dancer

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Wess Foreman

End of a Long Day (Empty)

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Wess Foreman

Empty, 37.5x38.75", SOLD — End of a Long Day (Empty), 37.5x38.75", $1200

everyday saint

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Wess Foreman

This is the fifth or sixth of these "everyday saint" paintings I've done---a loose series with no particular big idea behind them---something interesting about them though.

dapper man

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Wess Foreman

Wanted another figure painting to pair with the Portrait of Mrs. White painting. I was initially going to make the entire coat out of newspaper but after applying the left side, I liked it better this way. He is supposed to be a Victorian-era gentleman but I think this could be from any era up to current times. Perhaps I should have added the dead-give-away oversize mustachio . . .

youth untethered

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Wess Foreman

I composed this painting from a snapshot my mom took---thanks Mom. I weeded down the crowd in the photo to these five figures (though I think I invented the stoic gentleman in the back . . . perhaps it's a younger me?). I believe there was a sudden uptick of wind at the time, which sent this large flock of family and friends out leaping and frolicking about---a summertime reunion of my extended family tends to inject some amount of joy into the group anyway and the wind just sent these individuals into a fit of exuberance, I suppose.

Anyway, I figured the finished painting would have to capture a percentage of that joy, and I think it has done that. I'm happy with it.

the aerialist

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Wess Foreman

I have a handful of circus snapshots I took three or four years ago that I've been meaning to convert into a series of paintings. This is one of those, finally realized. The reference photo was taken horizontally but of course this vertical format works much better for the subject matter.