Lady Boston a copy of a Romney piece

                                     In process 12x18 gouache on canvas panel

wood work

With less money and more time, 

I stumbled upon the ingenious concept of building the things I want. With some salvaged oak, and a clear design in my mind. I set to work. Now with only simply joinery and wedges. I've myself an elegant yet utilitarian trestle bench for our kitchen table.

In the works

These are various directions that I've taken over the last few months. All are relatively small. Mostly acrylic with gouache on canvas or panels.

Free Admission Sunday Night/ ONE NIGHT ONLY

An Elizabethan couple

Saint Teuthis

fall/winter card line-up

The season for "Shakespeare in the park"

Lepus Elizabethan

These are cards and postcards I now have available @ The Makery

My retail space at, "The Makery"

Friends and avid followers,
I am working on updating this site to reflect the work I am currently doing as well as future projects. I will begin posting current and forthcoming works and shows.
Thank you for your patronage.

Matt

This is a recent jaunt into a traditional theme. watercolor and acrylic on handmade paper
8.5x11"

Friends and faithful viewers, and you occasional passers-by,
I now for the very first time have PRINTS of a few selected original pieces on sale at the great electronic market. ETSY.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MattRedbeard?ref=search_shop_redirect

So, If you've a hankering for some top quality merchandise at sell-out prices....

Divine Feminine

.....posing......if Gods nature that most represents what we refer to as "feminine" were to be exemplified. What would it look like in say, icon form?

(Early sketch for a commission, since 2010"

"Fox and Stars"

Sharpie on card stock, mated.

4x8

Captain Fox

A generic rendition of a privateer from the late 1600's anthropomorphized.

Watercolor on rag paper 3x4

Comanche Fox

Based on an photograph of Quanah Parker.

Barbies from the previous nights bath, drying.

 A little girls playthings, as she left them.

I've always enjoyed Aesop's "the fox and the grapes"

4x8 watercolour, pen and ink on paper.

"What do you do with a drunken sailor?"

          Pen and ink watercolour, gouache. 4x8 on paper