Recent Work

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Recent Work

TN Hills Blue

My first true foray into acrylic paint. New medium, all dots; be gentle.

TNHillsRed.jpg, in progress...

This is the next in the Tennessee Hills series. Had to give a nod to autumn, and this one'll be done in no time! Stay tuned cuz I've been walking around these hills and noticing stuff...

The above series is straight from Cookeville, Tennessee. Great, big, beautiful ice cream sign from a gentler age. A really cool town, as a matter of fact! These two were an absolute pleasure.

I have been working on this piece for over 10 years now, and I'll tell ya - I'm about halfway done. Some things just have to have more attention! Seriously though, I've some work left to do on it still, but I promise to make this 32" X 40" monster available in the Store as soon as it's ready (pictured here is about 1/8th of the actual image).

Just some little close-up, sleepy-eyed little views.

ZoomyView

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Your patience is most appreciated while the images load into your Terrestrial Systems.

(Each piece of artwork is stored on a separate space-based server near Alpha Centauri.)

Northern Pike

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SeaTurtle

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Fairy Tern

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GrinninGuatamalan

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Flutterby Dream

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This was a photograph of a butterfly that landed near an old friend and me one day, and shortly after, died. It just sat there, slowly flapping its wings, minutes before it passed into the next world. I love the image, and always wondered what big things this little guy had in store for itself. My Ma always used the name "flutterby" instead of butterfly, and so I do as well. Here's to sweet and (hopefully) bizarre dreams!

Marooned Flutterby

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Butterfly Landing

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Spokeshark

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This is normally such a menacing animal, and my rendering of him seemed almost jovial in comparison with the original image, that I think of this guy as an Ambassador For the Shark Nations, working tirelessly for peace among the sharks and with us volatile humans.

Houston Runners

Houston is a really strange city - I mean, really.
There IS, however, a great diversity that I think must have saved it from sinking into the Gulf of Mexico many times. This piece is from a photograph taken by Heidi Powell-Prera (www.findheidi.com), and is my tribute to strength and vibrance in diversity everywhere. Goodonya, lads.

An old friend took this one as well of a preacher resting his foot on a New Orleans lamppost. His eyes and his hands particularly interested me, as they seem to perfectly illustrate the precarious position in which much of the clergy find themselves in this dizzying modern world.

Street Priest

Hello, Youngster

I have always admired folks hardy enough to make it through life's rich gamut to old age. I came across this image and had to take it on as a welcome challenge. Something about her steady demeanor reminded me that there's a vital part of each of us that's entirely free of time, aging, and all that other nonsense.

Mano de Leon

This has got to be one of my favorite plants!
Pure, lurid, visual delight.

This image was taken by Heidi, of a young woman reciting poetry at a spoken-word gathering. The light reflecting off her made me think of the inordinate brightness of Venus. The apparent gravity of the verse being spoken reminded me of the glowing-hot surface under those bright clouds, so I wanted to show some of that heat-baked surface (from a photo of Venus, of course :)) across her skin, just beneath her stage lit veneer.