A Word Regarding...

Using the painting directly below(which I consider to be in a transitional state – frustratingly transitional), photographed with a cheap digital camera, I popped the imagery into PhotoShop and began to manipulate it digitally, coming up with the variants that you see subsequently. I was surprised at the results – sort of Bob Peak meets Peter Max. Although I really appreciate a realistic approach to painting, particularly the meditative patience it requires, I must admit to having a strange attraction to abstraction as well. If I had deliberately set out to create the look of these images in paint, I doubt if I would have been able to do it. I’m so set in my ways and my mind functions in rather predictable patterns. So many options, so little time…

Original Acrylic Stock..a work in progress...

Digital Manipulation No.1

Digital Manipulation No.2

Digital Manipulation No.3

Digital Manipulation No.4

Digital Chalk

Honkey Tonk Donkey (digital)

Ode to J.J...Digital No. 9

Show Donkeys No.2 (digital work)

Running Shoe on High

L. A. Longboarder and Accoutrement

Juan & Jeanie

A lire ala Lit

Purple Suede Shoes Airing Out at the Hearbreak Hotel, TJ MX

Digitally Modified Varient of Colored Pencil Self-Portrait

The three pieces below show different treatments of a subject. The gray-scale graphite drawing was done with a standard 2B pencil on a piece of typing paper. The colored pencil drawing was done with student-grade colored pencils on some good drawing paper. The upper-most treatment was done by processing the colored pencil drawing with a computer application.

Portrait in Color Pencil

Self Portrait in Graphite