Randy Dillon's Art Studio

Large Faces
Sometimes I wonder why I create these personalities such as those seen below. I feel compelled to populate the world with characters created out of my imagination. But sometimes I philosophize the artist in me mirrors the world through my portraits. The imaginary characters are impressions left behind like a journal which I give [...]

Lord Byron, the English poet of the Romantic Era, wrote a poem based on the true story of Mazeppa from Voltaire’s “The History of Charles XII, King of Sweden” named Mazeppa.
Summary of the Poem
A Polish noble named Mazeppa, who had been born in the Palatinate of Podolia, had been a page to King John Casimir [...]

So there I was in the museum, looking at the work of an American artist who lived in the early part of the last century. He was there in this cafe, and the woman looking up at him was his subject. Now across eighty years, I do what I can, and put it to the [...]