reverse side of illustration sketches; the image area is covered with graphite or colored pencil to transfer the sketch onto illustration board to paint; realism, abstraction, it's all semantics

salvaged preparatory sketches

reincarnated as abstract paintings

realism/abstraction = line, form, color, texture, chiaroscuro, positive and negative space

50+ mixed media works on paper

representation

graphite transfer

abstraction

representation

graphite transfer

abstraction

hot day after recess, waiting in line for the drinking fountain, watching kid after kid in front of you making love to the fountain, nursing at the fountain's teat ... inspiration for lesser known works by Rodin and Klimt

flick the card (to the beat of Jailhouse Rock) and Elvis' legs swivel

quiet fireworks for the 4th

white pine

scales of bark gathered at the base of a few trees

thin White Pine branches "woven" into seams in the trunk’s bark

White Pine twigs wedged into a tree knot, various stages

pine needles wedged into seams in the bark

fallen White Pine twigs, looped into themselves

pine needles affixed with tree sap or wedged into seams in the bark

needles, dissembled and whole cones, etc., fixed into tree knots with tree sap - the top middle knot and cone are Canadian Hemlock, the rest are White Pine - in two photos the bark is darkened by rain