Recent Work: Jun 06, Jan 07, Nov 07
Early Works
During the first few years I was experimenting with subject matter, different
papers and different brands of colored pencils. Since colored pencil is
very labor intensive I also tried different backgrounds...
2004-2005
I continued experimenting, more or less abandoned landscapes as too time
consuming and not really appropriate for CPs. I started branching out into
mixed media and, on the advice of one of my art teachers, began working
in series:
City Maps
This is the first series I tried. I have always loved maps and have been
using the ones you get at car rentals thinking of the inner city rivers,
estuaries, highways, subway lines, bridges, downtowns and open space as
shapes, lines and colors. The producer of the maps, Color-Art of St. Louis,
MO, has obligingly provided me with enough maps to keep me busy for several
years.
New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Washington D.C.,
Cincinnati, Baltimore. Can you guess which is which?
Abstracts, Impact Series
It’s a challenge to work bold, loose and extemporaneously in a medium
that is by its nature precise and controlled. For this series I also exploited
my digital camera. I singled out sections of a large ink drawing I had done
in the 70’s, enlarged them on my computer, edited a bit and voila!
Mountain Stream was the only one that reminded me of anything specific.
Abstracts, Mixed Media
I decided to branch out into ink refined with colored pencils. The ink came
first. Once a pattern I liked was established, I used colored pencils and
the interactions of one color with another to strengthen and add texture
to what are essentially flat designs.
