Pensive Penso

Bob, you are Matisse the Younger! An Artist of great talent!I just might have to get your autograph.

I'm glad you got a cruise job as an ART teacher. It will be more up your alley as you are no great ballroom dancer! Leave the DANCING to ME, and the ART to you.

Your Amigo, Pensive Dave

Kansas City Gary

Very impressive! Professional AND a blog!

Are you wearing ShOES?! (No, do I need SHOES?)

Unique - reveals so much of yourself, beyond your Art. Typical Bob: open, intelluctually stimulating, and having fun.

I predict your web will be busier than ever, and so will YOU! KCG

A Connecticut Fan

i love your use of color re the Pittsburgh cityscapes! (One of my favorite places,having lived there many years.) You make the city look vividly ALIVE! Wonderful! Bob Ben

Princeess Noordam

I am the proud owner of your portrait of my grand daughter, Sydney. The painting shows not only her big, beautiful blue eyes, but her sweet innocence as well. When Sydney saw her portrait, she loved her dress with the BIG pink bow, and the kittycat, Peaches, in the lower left. This painting will be treasured forever!
I want to thank you, Bob, for this MASTERPIECE.
When you wrap the painting for shipment, it is WRAPPED, WRAPPED,and WRAPPED again! The anticipation of getting to the painting is almost unbearable - but worth the wait.
Thank you again for this beautiful work of Art! DiAnne

John Murphy l2/31/05

I LOVE THIS SITE! Thanks for sharing your work and your knowledge with the great unwashed. We need a lot of rinsing.

Admirer and Friend

Bob, love your website! ... Besides "Funny Cide". whioh has always been one of my favorites as well as Mykanos. Did you exhibit this at PPG? I saw the painting and had a feeling, I had seen it before. Soon it will be time for me to commission a portrait of my "baby" Love, F.

Anonymous Comment 12/31/05

I love your perspective on Pittsburgh!
Yes, I remember the smoke from the mills, and the chronic grey dullness - but you have given color and life to dreary memories. I love your paintings!
Indeed, I am glad that the smoke/grit from the mills is gone; unfortunately, the jobs and the prosperity as well!

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from Kurt Shaw, Art Critic, PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE, Dec 31, 2005

Old St. Nick has already smiled on me this year - more than once! I just acquired my second original Schmalzried! It's a beauty.
We have to get together soon.It will be fun to walk down memory lane wih these works. One is from l97l, is of birds on a shore, another is one of our Big Dormont scenes, l985.
Love your website! The blog is the perfect ging for you, Bob. I'll keep my eye on it. Whenever you want to get together, please let me know.