"Brothers" a life-size oil made a few years ago --this was made at a favorite family retreat, a hunting camp and a pretty setting to pose these handsome kids. We shot many pictures, but when the kids squeezed into this Adirondack Chair I knew I had found my select pose. The older brother has his arm around the younger, affectionately but maybe it could be almost a headlock. The younger is smiling, though!


This stunning, 5 by 7 foot tall oil portrait was completed in 2005. The Victorian decor added to the environment harkens to the client's wishes for a feel for a "Gone with the Wind", ante-bellum style of living theme. The mother with her three girls in sumptuous dress epitomize that time and era. Children encircle mother and they are arrayed from the youngest, as shy childhood --peeking around mom (then a very natural pose for this child); to the blossoming youth --close by nestled in front and still touching or leaning on mom; and then ultimately we see the teenager --with mother very near and still the center of the family, but this eldest daughter is emerging above her mom as a new and distinct woman coming into the world.

The painting was designed for display on a large, slightly curved wall at the front entry way of their large home. A wide spiral staircase winds in front of the base of the painting influencing the lower left side, but all still quite visible lending a magnificent presence to the home as the painting can be seen from all floors and as one views the portrait up close while passing on the stair.


This sweet portrait of mother and child is one of two pastels made simultaneously for the family at Christmas 2006. Of course, these portraits were made from photos I took and we ended up with so many good shots that the client decided to commission two different paintings. One portrait was given to the inlaws and the other now is hanging in the client's home. The joy of the mother with her newborn son is captured in both paintings. You can see the other portrait further along in the gallery.



This is the younger sister of the girl on the left. These paintings are 20X30 inch oil on canvas and therefore "life size". The set of portraits was designed for a specific wall but have come to hang in very nice locations near the front entrance . Now the paintings oppose each other across the hall and a few feet apart, and seem to invite the viewers into the home --each portrait facing into the room with lines within the painting pulling the eye along. Since the setting for the portraits is in that same hallway, the paintings will provide a cjhance for an intersting visual opportunity.
Above is one of my most recent portraits, one of two matching paintings just finished and now hanging in the patron's home. The older of the two, this girl has a pose that looks more mature and fitting for a young woman. I'm delighted with both paintings and happy to report the subjects both like their images. I think they will enjoy these paintings for a long time.


This profile is a very sweet pastel of a young friend that I made in 2006. I've made thousands of pastel portraits and this painting stands on the shoulders of all those works. I've always been partial to profiles, as I think this is the way people view us much of the time. Either working from life or via my photographic reference, my pastel portraits are second to none.


I call this painting "Tea Time". It is about a 30X40 inch oil on canvas of another set of beautiful sisters. I was taken with how the younger girl looks so admiringly at her sibling. The pretend setting incudes colorful flowers found locally in eastern North Carolina . I have more pictures and text about this painting, provided as it was unfolding, and archived at www.RealLiveArtist.com (click here).

This is an oil portrait, and at 20 by 30 inches it's a life size image of my young, beautiful subject. There is truly nothing quite like afternoon sunlight to reveal color and shape in the clothing, skin and hair. Willow branches form a perfect contrasting backdrop for this pretty portrait and a classic painting. Once agin, this was a natural pose that arose from the relaxed subject showing herself in a typical view at a favorite place.

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This is an early oil portrait, quite large at 50" X 60", and a very succesful pose and likeness. The beach view was always the idea of the client, but we posed her daughter on the back steps to their backyard and the inclusion of the sand and beach environment came to serve the portrait composition and not the other way around. Colors in this painting are plentiful,
A small oil on linen, this painting is of a friend as he looks on the weekends, as a reenactor in Civil War battles. I think he is a colonel and this view was close to his quarters, but before retiring or making any plans the horses must be cared for and rank means nothing when it comes to this meeting of human and creature.




Thank you for visiting! I have much to say, but I prefer to allow my work to speak for itself. By mousing over the portrait images information will display like this if you should so choose.

This gallery presents both pastels and oils made by Jack Anglin and should give the viewer an ample idea of what the artist can create in minature, as life size portraits and with very large canveses.

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Here is another miniature of a friend while she was painting in watercolor. We were up a creek --actually, Brices Creek that feeds into the Trent River southwest of New Bern, NC. This is oil on linen, and though it is sharp and a very crisp likeness it has great use of paint, color, and light.