Bright, colorful abstracts, highly detailed & often whimsical, including 3D, light, & optical illusions, and fun experiments with pattern & form.
Pebeo Fantasy Prisme Painting + Photoshop/On1/Topaz Digital Effects
Adrift in a sea of swirling blue greens, a family of red-headed Whimsies play musical cherries on a reverberating platform of spiraling echoes.
From a Pebeo Fantasy Prisme painting on a round mirror.
Pebeo Fantasy Prisme Painting + Photoshop/On1/Topaz/Filter Forge Digital Effects
A colorful fluted spiraling disk, twirling around in painterly swirls and inexplicably nestled in a purple soft blanket of furry distraction.
From a Pebeo Fantasy Prisme painting on a wood circle.
Acrylic Painting + Pencil Drawing/Illustrator Tracing + Astute Graphics/Photoshop/On1/Topaz Effects
A soft and soothing striped diamond rug lays behind the perpetually meandering wide paths of a circular chartreuse maze.
Acrylic Painting + Pencil Drawing/Illustrator Tracing + Astute Graphics/Photoshop/On1/Topaz Effects
Colorful Southwest diagonal woolen stripes race past behind a roundabout maze with delicate pastel bright windings and multiple short side trails.
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Photoshop/On1/Filter Forge Digital Effects
Unruly lines splash across the surface in a pastel free-for-all of animated amusement.
Prismacolor Pencil Drawing + Photoshop Digital Effects
Eight similar but different non-symmetrical waves crawl three dimensionally across a page of earth toned Prismacolor sketchy scribbles, creating little walls of distinction between the lines.
Pen & Ink and Prismacolor Pencils + Photoshop & ON1 Digital Effects
Staring at the clock can leave one feeling a bit tipsy, as the hours appear to descend backward from 12 down to 1, dipping counter-intuitively in a long slow spiral of timely subtraction, surrounded by waving rays of textured color, and hemmed in by tightly clustered bands of miniature circles.
Pencil Drawing + Illustrator Tracing, Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
A long slender hand adorned with fanciful pastel patterns and multi-color fingernails lightly touches a large rolling spiral that tapers gently down into a distant memory. The thin expressive fingers cast a soft shadow on a woven backdrop of warm undulating circles.
Pencil drawing + Photoshop Digital Effects
Freely circling scribbly loops tangle chaotically all over the place, perfectly covering an otherwise plain and blank piece of paper, revising its future once and for all.
From a drawing of pencil scribbling loops on a wrinkled sheet of packing paper.
Pencil drawing + Illustrator Tracing & Photoshop Paintbrush
Entering from the great beyond along the bottom edge, a single line winds its way meanderingly toward the center of the picture, pausing along the way to fashion various loops and side trails, until at last it arrives at the very center, spiraling in for a comfortable landing, secure in the notion that it has filled the available space and left no corner unturned.
Sculpey Polymer Clay + Photoshop/On1 Digital Effects
An organic arrangement of pleasingly plump wiggling lines and big squishy dots in congenial earth tones, nesting playfully below a scratch-textured surface.
From an abstract rendering created with Sculpey polymer clay.
Sharpie Marker Drawing + Image Blending & Photoshop/Topaz Digital Effects
Predicting the future can be somewhat problematical, unless you have a dependable device like the Spiral Impedance Projector, which, without any hoopla, allows you to both ignore the litany of a multitude of possibilities and, at the same time, discover your inner gravitational center, all in one easy step!
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Records + Digital Effects
A dancing festival of colorful lines and fuzzy circles to brighten your day!
From a close-up detail of hand-painted vinyl records.
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Digital Effects
An energetic turbulent jumble of abstract trails, going everywhere and nowhere all at once.
From a close-up detail of a hand-painted vinyl record.
Photography + Digital Painting Effects
A brilliant yellow and orange glowing sunrise envisioned in a weathered sheet of plywood.
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
An uneven matrix of multi-colored dots and wavy lines, cast upon a directionally challenged undulating sea.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
The artist’s sun-roasted index finger adrift in a rippling sea of fingerprints.
Photography + Digital Painting Effects
The sun-baked leaves of a 15 year old Desert Aloe plant intermingled with the long tendrils of a thriving Spider plant, transformed into a swirling symphony of color and form.
Photography + Digital Painting Effects
I see a fluffy old Bichon Frise dog, or maybe two or three of them, in need of brushing, on a nice bright morning stroll with someone in a pink skirt.
This image was created from a photograph of ocean surf, a breaking wave.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
In the surreal glow of a streetlight, a runner on a bridge stretches in preparation for a midnight run.
Photography + Photoshop Painting, Image Blending, & Digital Effects
After laying out all the shapes out in a uniform organized grid, one finds that there is indeed a penny, and even more exciting, a dime, each having migrated to its appropriate corner, where they patiently await the inevitable opportunity for an extravagant spending spree.
From photographs of lichen on stone and macro textural views of volcanic rocks.
Pencil Drawing + Illustrator & Photoshop Painting
A multi-colored organic form with long looping arms twirls about on its special stage, in front of a soft-hued curtain and surrounded by bright glowing lights.
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
Tony, a study in tonal relationships in a big wide-eyed somewhat bewildered face.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
The lines go this way and that, but the curves cannot be enticed between or swayed by a parallel course.
From a photograph of fire slowly burning away a pile of cardboard.
Pencil Drawing & Photography + Illustrator & Photoshop Painting + Digital Effects
Having finished his artistic interpretation on the walls, ceiling, floor, and doors, the intrepid painter sets to work on a visitor coming through the door, aligning his brush carefully upon the knee so as not to mar his freshly painted door with an errant stroke of Titanium White.
Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
Rippling waves of fluid motion, with eddies and swirls resembling eyes and highlights of delicate lacy white ribbon.
Photoshop Painting + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Deep below a gently meandering swirling mist lies the center of things, stable and steadfast, fixed in intention, quietly observing the lyrical wandering above, hither and thither, back and forth, never at rest, but always above home.
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A dark rustic abstract sun hides in the center of a lyrical dance of embossed freeform swirls and faint ornamental wavy lines & dancing dots.
Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
A glowing yellow-orange and green eye peers out from an anonymous painterly face, seeing we know not what, for most of what it sees is behind what we are looking at.
Photography + Image Manipulation & Digital Painting
It might be a cool and cloudy sun, receding in layers into the distance, its center obscured by a scribbly and scratchy abstraction, and sporting a splashy froth of clouds playing havoc in the background. Or it might be something else entirely!
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A large raven sneaking in from the east arrives just in time to witness the turmoil as any semblance of order is replaced by an excitingly tangled and chaotic abstraction of the natural rhythms.
From a photograph of a cut and polished travertine tile.
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Layered Digital Effects
Bright splashes of color and energetic bold lines, accented by groups of eye-catching circles.
From a close-up detail of a hand-painted vinyl record.
Photography & Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Image Blending & Digital Effects
The beautiful biomorphic form of a forest mushroom, hovering mysteriously in front of a colorful dark rippling curtain.
This image was created from photographs of a forest mushroom, tree rings, and a colorful abstract painting on an old vinyl record.
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A perfectly organized collection of circles, dashes, and various ripples & looplets is inexorably swallowed up by a creeping tangle of loose-woven webby burlap, the gradual decline of orderly pattern being an inadvertent consequence and something of a relief.
Photography + Digital Painting Effects
An improvisational heart, beating to a jazzy, impromptu, swirly rhythm. This image is based loosely on a photograph of the folds of a robe on a marble statue.
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Illustrator & Photoshop Painting + Image Blends & Digital Effects
Graceful lavender strands twist gently above seven large translucent pastel blue and purple beads as they float past a row of luminous peachy orange and yellow waving bumps, all drifting on by, by and by.
Scanned Honeycomb Paper + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A shadowy figure, walking alone, and barely visible behind a Daedalian curtain of amber orange patchy fallen leaves mingled with wide dashed diagonal slashes. A patchwork mosaic of beautifully irregular forms, from a scan of self-expanding honeycomb kraft packing paper.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
I found a beautiful owl feather in the forest. I hope the owl didn’t need it any more.
Brush Pen Drawings + Image Blending & Digital Effects
An abstract three dimensional synthesis of two playful freeform ink sketches.
