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Works on Paper

Digital drawing.

Painting

Lake superior on a sunlit summer day, with sailboats in the distance sailing by the rocky coastline.

Painting

Acrylic Paint, Clear Coated $80

Mixed Media

Acrylic with wire on wood 24 x 24
2012

Painting

30" X 30" Acrylic on canvas

Photography

This is a picture of an orchid that I took at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens.

Photography

Afternoon sun on a Dry Creek autumn vineyard.

Painting

Craft

A fused glass piece made by combining pattern bars and strips of glass. This piece came in 3rd in the 2011 Duke Employee Art Show in the intermediate category.

Sculpture

A Raku vase, 12 inches tall. This beautiful vessel gets its patina by way of a Raku firing process. The bisqued piece is glazed with special Raku glazes that have copper oxide and silver nitrate in their mix and placed in a Raku kiln and fired to 1950 degrees. It is taken out of the kiln while flaming hot and placed in a container with combustables. The flames lick the glaze causing flashes of color. It is then smothered by covering it up and the reduction process the begins creating other combinations of colors. Just use soap and water to clean

Mixed Media

I learned so much while working on this piece. I hand Eco dyed habitai silk with natural pigment. When that was set I picked through a junk yard looking for wonderful rusty shapes and bits. The transfer process is achieved using large sheets of plastic layered with my dyed silk, sprayed heavily with vinegar and sett with the rusty bits then covered with leftover silk and plastic. It takes about 4 hours for the transferring to occur depending on the heat and amount of sunlight. Then I simply rinse the vinegar out of the silk and let the shapes Ive created speak to me as to how to integrate them into my encaustic pieces and embellish with oil pigment sticks encaustic paint and wax pencils. All with heat fused layers of wax between. It's magic.

Photography

Craft

Original leaded stained glass

Painting

Each circle has a meaning and a personality. Feel the beginning of new life.

Photography

Mixed Media

SDED-Why, 2022
Acrylic on shaped canvas and basswood strips and letters over plywood
24 x 20 x 1 in (61 x 51 x 2.5 cm)
It all started with another fontalumi gesture in search for the elusive (theoretical) 2.5 dimension (and a little experiment writing with a custom-made clear leveling gel pen). The image almost chose itself for being such a powerful symbol of both human ingenuity and destruction. Working with such a cogent image triggered the rest of the puzzle tiles to fall comfortably in place, awakening thoughts common to people beyond the RAM cycle of a normal, being-alive day.
When exposed to symbols in our lives feelings start pouring, moving us in different directions according to an unwritten rule, known only to the mysterious universe onward since the Big Bang. Not before long, proving Van Gogh's belief that “paintings have a life of their own...” all the elements to construct SDED-Why piece were mixing in the pot, ready to make the soup. A Stuart Semple black 3.0 on black, and a recurring red-magenta duo appear to take over yet another painting making my head spin from the question: where is all this coming from? Maybe, if I go under hypnosis the answer will show its invisible truth...

Painting

Photography

Works on Paper

Graphite on bristol board. 2008

Works on Paper

Done with white and black charcoal on 18X24 paper. A charcoal drawing of the Marine who fought in the Pacific theater of war played by Joseph Mazzello in the HBO series The Pacifc.

Photography

Painting

Oil on canvasboard.

Photography

This picture was inspired by the frustration of school. 

Painting

Watercolor, using texture, painted Summer 2022.

Painting

Custom Built Table Divider, Cedar canvas on both sides (different scene)

Painting

Mixed Media

Queen of Love & Light is a mixed media painting of writer and good friend Meserette Kentake-Windbush. She just happens to resemble a powerful character in my drawings and writings, so I decided to paint her.

Mixed Media

Postage stamp collage, 11" x 14," made entirely of used U.S. postage stamps

Sculpture

This sculpture was a part of a series where I was investigating the human form in the media of clay. All of the poses were in a sitting position. This "Kneeiling Man" was the second.  "During the period that I was building these sculptures I needed to keep my mind and hands busy. I was grieving the passing of my dear mother.  Each of the poses in this series unintentionally reflected the inner "Conflict" that I was struggling with during the time.  Media: Bmix clay, white crackle glaze, Raku fired.

Photography

The main employee entrance of the shuttered Bethlehem Steel Corporation Plant in Bethlehem, PA

Photography

Photograph of vintage acoustic archtop guitars taken with iPhone SE. 2024