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Inspired by a photograph of a sunset in Australia. This is an original pastel 12" x 18" painted on Wallis Professional pastel paper with Unison pastels.

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Portrait drawing

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I decided to try something completely different, and ended up painting a heart... not the shape but the organ. I painted it near Valentine's Day and posted it on Facebook. I really enjoyed working on the details, including the veins within the heart. It was different than my normal paintings and I still have this one in my possession.

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Original Colored Pencil Sketching in honor of Esther Jones per Wikipedia... Esther Jones, known by her stage name "Baby Esther", was an African-American singer and entertainer of the late 1920s, known for her "baby" singing style. She performed regularly at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Theatrical manager Lou Walton testified during the Fleischer v. Kane trial that Helen Kane saw Baby Esther's cabaret act in 1928 with him and appropriated Jones' style of singing, changing the interpolated words "boo-boo-boo" and "doo-doo-doo" to "boop-boop-a-doop" in a recording of "I Wanna Be Loved By You". Kane never publicly admitted this. Jones' style, as imitated by Kane, went on to become the inspiration for the voice of the cartoon character Betty Boop.

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Tulip.

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Digital photography on premium HP special paper (31" x 18")

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Oil on Linen, 40 x 60

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Created Jan 2023. This piece I created to show a reflection of the past and how not much has change in the present.

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24x36 oil on canvas

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9' x 10' Airbrush

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I did this illustration as a favor for a great photgrapher I know.
Even though she's great in front of the camera, I thought I'd change it up a bit and make it appear as if the camera were attacking her.
After all, we do tend to let our work get the best of us.

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While waiting to see the David Bowie exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, I strolled over to the top of the stairwell and marveled at the other guests, as well as the Koi Pond located at the bottom of the stairwell.

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Within You Without You
(16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas)
Within You Without You was composed on a harmonium following a dinner party at the London home of Klaus Voorman, the German artist and musician whom The Beatles first met in Hamburg. Written by George Harrison, it was the only non Lennon-McCartney song on the Sgt Pepper album.
The song was George Harrison's second full-blown Indian recording, after Revolver's Love You To. Although regarded by some as a dull interlude in the otherwise masterful Sgt Pepper, Within You Without You encapsulated the exploration of spiritual themes that had become popular in 1967's Summer of Love.
Clear references to the counterculture ('Are you one of them?') and the LSD-related ego death ('And to see you're really only very small and life flows on within you and without you') can be found amid the more other-worldly exploration of spiritual philosophy and religious teachings.
The laughter at the end of the track was Harrison's idea. While some listeners initially thought it was the sound of the other Beatles mocking his songwriting effort, it was in fact meant to lighten the mood after five minutes of sad, almost mournful, music.
Within You Without You came about after I had spent a bit of time in India and fallen under the spell of the country and its music. I had brought back a lot of instruments. It was written at Klaus Voormann's house in Hampstead after dinner one night. The song came to me when I was playing a pedal harmonium.
I'd also spent a lot of time with Ravi Shankar, trying to figure out how to sit and hold the sitar, and how to play it. Within You Without You was a song that I wrote based upon a piece of music of Ravi's that he'd recorded for All-India Radio. It was a very long piece - maybe 30 or 40 minutes - and was written in different parts, with a progression in each. I wrote a mini version of it, using sounds similar to those I'd discovered in his piece. I recorded in three segments and spliced them together later.
George Harrison
This composition of this piece came to me, appropriately enough, through meditation. I was thinking about George Harrison, not living in the material world with us any longer, but how his message goes on without him, and how, in "All Things Must Pass" the lyric;
"Sunset doesn't last all evening
A mind can blow those clouds away
After all this my love is up
And must be leaving
But it's not always going
To be this grey"
I thought it would be appropriate to have him playing a sitar on the shore at sunset, yet the sitar, being a material object, casts a shadow, while George himself is drifting in and out of existence in the material world, and casts no shadow.

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Wood framed under glass color pencil drawing on paper.

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Last of the 3 part series.

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18x24

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