Welcome to the revamped fine art section, now with thumbnails for your convenience. Please read the liners for each work so you may appreciate them in the artist's historical context. Remember, the dates give away my age at the time. Born in 1956.

1. "JUG" (9" x 12") is an old piece from when I was experimenting with charcoal and water color, sometime around early 1974. "JUG" is charcoal over fine water color washes on clean watercolor paper. I think it's aged well: c.1973


2. "BLUE SHADOW" (8.25" x 12") erupted from a period when I was sixteen. I was experimenting with light and dark. Imposto watercolor on heavy drawing stock. c.May 1972


3. "BROADWAY" (7.5" x 8.5") I chose to put this figure of Joe Namath here, even though it has a retro quality to it, because it is a figure, however primitive, and it has good gesture and some fine pencil work. c.1970-71. Either from a photo in Sports Illustrated, or from the New York Daily News Sports Section, maybe even a back page photo from the News: No.2 pencil on heavy newsprint.


4. "PeterT" (6"x 8.25") Primitive, somewhat expressionistic interpretation of a photo of Pete Townsend of The Who. Dry brush india ink on heavy stock. Circa late 1972. Cleaned up with photo editor.


5. "Freddy" (8" x 10.5") Also very primitive, interpretive. c.1971-2: mixed media, oil and watercolor on paper. Freddy Biletnikoff, of the Oakland Raiders, a quiet, mystical receiver who had great hands and the ability to sidestep tacklers who were coming at him from behind.


6. "Furry Shadow" (11" x 14") A disturbing truncated image of a woman. I traced the shadows from a nude photo and cut the shadows with a razor and removed the loose pieces. Next I taped the resulting stencil over a watercolor sheet still damp with a beige wash. I then dragged a thick brush brimming with diluted black across the openings in the tracing. c.spring 1972

7. "Ball, Bottle and Box " (10.5" x 12") A simple still life done in oil pastel. This is when I was finally getting the light touch for pastels and charcoal. Till then most of my work in these mediums became overworked almost immediatly. c. Fall 1973


8. "Life Magazine in Pencil" (15" x 20.5") Digital photo of a Life Magazine cover reproduced in No.2 pencil on drawing stock; art work was done in March of 1984. That's Darryl Hannah posing:148k. Third thumbnail leads to detail of drawing.

Low resolution image: 32k

Detail of image.



9. "Wire Face" (12" x "18") I drew this wire face with a Speedball pen in black India ink on heavy drawing stock. c. early 1974.

10. "At Sea" (18" x 24") Acrylic on canvasboard. c.1990

11."GESTURE" (7.5" x 8.5") This work came from a practice session in crayon on hard newsprint. I saved it because of how fluid and expressive it is. c.1973

12. "Robert Plant with Dove. " (18" x 24") This image came from a snapshot of a pencil drawing in progress, circa December 1977. To bring out the fine lines I put the crude photo through a scanner, then darkened it in a photo editor. I did this to bring out what had been a very soft image. The original figure came from a poster derived from a photograph taken, presumably, at the Led Zeppelin concert at Tampa Stadium in May of 1973. The original drawing was destroyed in a fire. So Sad.



13. "Super Paint Hair" c.1996: I used an ancient Mac, a Plus II, with four megs of RAM to do this digital masterpiece. The program: Superpaint, a black and white paint program that substitutes patterns and extreme brush control for a color pallette. Loads slower than the rest of the items on this page.


14. "AC's Cobra Cartoon" (9" x 11.75") I did this in 1976 while working nights in the USAF. Felt tip marker, government issue, on hard newsprint. The page takes a while to load; I didn't want to reduce the saturation because of the crosshatching, which, like the rest of the drawing, was done without tracing or re-doing. Inspired by a photo of an AC's Cobra.


15. "Caricature of a young Arlo Guthrie" (9" x 12") Circa 1973. I took the original image from a book of song lyrics left over from the sixties and I interpreted this photo of a very young Arlo. It's black Flair on gray newsprint.