I am a Fulton County employee with an interest in both visual art and music performance. On the visual art side, I have lately applied myself to both watercolor and photography.
I paint offbeat watercolor images from my imagination, often with an aquatic accent. Photographically, I like to use lighting elements to create dramatic settings for ordinary objects.
I want to encourage everyone to reacquaint themselves with their inner artist- you will be surprised what you can do!
"Luna"
"Luna"
Photography
A photo of a resting Luna Moth that I encountered on a walk, Tucker, Georgia, August, 2024. Shot with iPhone SE.
" A Plutocrat In A Hat"
" A Plutocrat In A Hat"
Painting
This is a gouache painting I quickly did on September 30, 2024 using gouache and colored pencils. I like surrealist imagery, and "A Plutocrat In A Hat" seems to be just that.
"Crosstown Traffic"
"Crosstown Traffic"
Painting
"Crosstown Traffic" is a gouache painting showing what I think are the daily business of our friends beneath the sea who live in communities just like us!
From September, 2024.
"Bubble World"
"Bubble World"
Painting
"Bubble World" is the first stage of the acrylic "roller art" paintings I do on a black surface with ink brayers. I squirt out the paint onto the surface and sometimes the initial bubbly mass of paint has an interesting image of its own before I roll over it with the brayer. So I photographed it!! From 2020.
"Forbidden Planet"
"Forbidden Planet"
Painting
"Forbidden Planet" is a painting in acrylic that was made by squirting masses of paint onto a black rubber surface and then rolling over them with an ink brayer, thereby creating long streamers of combined color. Then, the results are photographed from several angles to hopefully capture an exotic, outer space, sci-fi, psychedelic spirit. Painted in 2021.
"Deep Enemies"
"Deep Enemies"
Painting
"Deep Enemies" is a painting in gouache and colored pencils that my imagination conjured as I thought of a giant squid and its mortal enemy, the sperm whale. Painted in September, 2024.
"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"
"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"
Painting
"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral" is an abstract painting in watercolor from 2023 that is dimensionally abstract and attempts to depict living, moving minerals.
"The Sebaceous Sargasso Squid and the Caribbean Cobalt Crevasse Carp"
"The Sebaceous Sargasso Squid and the Caribbean Cobalt Crevasse Carp"
Painting
Here is a painting in gouache that employs blobs of paint that are blotted into shape with a water-filled squeegee sponge rush and then detailed with a fine tipped paintbrush. The title is a most ludicrous invention. Painted in October 2024.
"Oyster Bed"
"Oyster Bed"
Photography
This is a photo of Oyster Mushrooms that I purchased for immediate consumption, but I realized pretty quickly that they are also very surreal and photogenic when lit, and so I went to my studio first before the kitchen!
Photo taken with iPhone SE, October, 2024.
"Cabbage Patch"
"Cabbage Patch"
Photography
"Cabbage Patch" is a photograph using an iPhone SE of common cabbage with some careful illumination on a red background, 2022.
"The Southern Hopping Porcupine Turtle "
"The Southern Hopping Porcupine Turtle "
Painting
This ia a watercolor painting with a surreal title done with squeegee sponge brush and finished with a fine tipped brush from 2022.
"Jungle"
"Jungle"
Photography
Bok Choy is not only great to eat but is very photogenic under the right lighting! Shot with iPhone SE, October, 2024.
"People On Paper"
"People On Paper"
Painting
"People On Paper" is a cartoon using MUJI pen and India Ink, drawn spontaneously without source material. October, 2024
"Torn Curtain"
"Torn Curtain"
Photography
"Torn Curtain" is a photo of an elephant ear plant from my yard that was reaching the end of its seasonal life. The network of veins of the plant are really unveiled under illumination. Photo taken with iPhone SE, October, 2024.
Wooden Hands"
Wooden Hands"
Photography
This is a photo of master luthier Jeff Baxendale as he explained the bracing he installs on his Baxendale line of rebuilt vintage guitars. Photo taken in his shop in Athens, Georgia on July 24, 2021. Photo taken with iPhone SE.
"Crazy Little Guitar Man"
"Crazy Little Guitar Man"
Painting
"Crazy Little Guitar Man" is a cartoon in pen and colored pencil, from my sketchbook, 2024. I love drawing and I love guitars!!