PROFILE OF A MIGRANT

The sun rays beat down on the dark skin that blends into this barren land. Darkness nears as drips of freedom stain this earth. It had a good run, but greed creates borders. This race is an opportunistic, violent, talented race. This is the journey of the human race.

WHITE

This painting completes the Red, White and Blue series. I gave this one more movement than the others, but still tried to maintain a certain flatness to the figure. I wanted the white in this image to represent a certain type of haze, smoke, dust or light that impedes progress.

CHUCK CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

A full day of art was capped off by visiting the SMOCA (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art) where they had a sketching event in the galleries alongside a Chuck Close exhibit. It's quite amazing how much patience is involved in creating these prints. Here's my sketch using white pencil on black paper.

BLUE

This is part of my Red, White and Blue series. It looks like this series is shaping up to be a statement on how unnecessarily complex everything seems to be in today's culture. What will we morph into? Can we keep up with the pace, and is it really necessary?

RED, WHITE AND BLUE SERIES

I've always been intrigued by the odd shapes of some of the creatures in the depth of the oceans, surviving in complete darkness. How do they adapt? Society too is morphing. I wonder what it all means as we start to live in the darkness of loneliness. This is the first painting for my Red, White and Blue series.

ORGANICALLY MECHANICAL

I finally got to do some artwork with Patricia and Todd. As we were brainstorming about what to make for our holiday cards, I began sketching some organic shapes forming it into something mechanical. I often do this in order to get some idea going. Many times it ends up being something morbid...why is that? I like contrast in imagery and perhaps that lends itself to be on the dark, creepy side. With this in mind, I'm thinking of creating a series of drawings and paintings in this style. Oh, and the holiday card? After various suggestions, Patricia took it all in and came up with a cool idea...I knew she would. She'll put it up on her blog when it's all developed.

PREHISTORIC BIRD FEED

It was the end of the watercolor pad and all that was left was the back cover. I decided to paint on it as it looked like similar watercolor paper is being applied to the stiff cardboard cover. I found it surprisingly easy to paint on as it remained rigid and I needn't worry about the paper edges curling.