"DECO FANTASY SKYLINE" (© 2015)
Acrylic painting; actual size 30” x 48”. This work I did for myself, and it now hangs in my dining room.
Acrylic painting; actual size 30” x 48”. This work I did for myself, and it now hangs in my dining room.
“RONDO ANALOGOUS IN THE KEY OF GREEN” (© 2012)
Acrylic painting; actual size 14” x 18”. The color scheme of this graphic painting is a directly analogous one consisting of yellow-green, green, and blue-green. The segments in each concentric circular ring are offset by 20-degrees. The color surrounding the circles is a low-value version of the primary green, and the central circle is colored a “yellowish yellow-green”.
“ALL ALONE IN THE DARK” (© 2012)
Acrylic painting; actual size 18” x 14”. A lone K-type main sequence star drifts silently in the void between galactic clusters, 200 million light-years from the nearest galaxy, left behind by the expansion of the Cosmos.
“MIRRORED SYMMETRY” (© 2011)
Acrylic painting; actual size 14” x 18”. Revisiting a color scheme I'd once used to create a desert-themed room for a project in an interior design class. The purple background is a new addition, not an element of the original project.
“VIEWPOINT” (© 2010)
Acrylic painting on stretched canvas; actual size – 22” x 28”. What do you see when you look at this piece? Diamond shapes in three different colors? An array of hexagons? Or, perhaps, the illusion of cubes? And, if you see cubes, are you looking up at them or down at them? It all depends on your viewpoint . . . or, as the artist, would that be on MY viewpoint?
“ARRAY OF HEARTS” (© 2010)
Acrylic painting; actual size 22” x 28”. A project done for another niece, drawing inspiration from stained glass window patterns, playing cards, and her fondness for “heart” designs.
“SIX-POINT SYMMETRY” (© 2008)
Acrylic painting; actual size – 12” x 16”. An analogous-color geometric design combined with a spattering technique.
DOLPHIN & TEXTURES” (© 2009)
Acrylic painting; actual size – 20” x 30”. A project done for one of my nieces, using faux texturing of various minerals and several realistic elements.
“EXECUTIVE TURTLENECKS” (© 1990)
Acrylic airbrush painting; actual size – 14” x 23”. A product illustration done for an airbrushing class.
“STARRY EVENING” (© 1991)
Acrylic airbrush painting; actual size – 32” x 22”. A fanciful landscape scene set on a planet with three satellites, and a globular star cluster relatively nearby.
“FLARE STAR” (© 1999)
Acrylic airbrush painting; actual size – 12” x 16”. Rendered with an airbrush, this painting depicts a gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf star which is, itself, the most distant member of a trinary system. The two principal stars are seen in the lower right corner, against the glowing arc of a nearby planetary nebula.
“OCEAN REDHEAD” (© 1991)
Acrylic airbrush painting; actual size – 20” x 14”. A figure study rendered for an airbrush class. One of the things I experimented with on this painting was the use of a “subtraction” technique to create the highlights on the woman's skin and swimsuit, something I hadn't tried before. Overall, I think the effect was successful for her skin tones; but I did not get the swimsuit quite as I wanted it. I was going for a day-glow green color, but didn't get it yellowish enough, and the green shading tone seems a bit too dark. I did use a photo from a magazine as a reference for the figure position and skin shading, but I didn't care for the model's face or hair style; so I created a variation that I found more pleasing. The reference photo had the model standing against a wall in a dance studio with her hands and foot on balance bars – which I converted into the metal railing for the painting. And I'm still quite pleased with her face.
