I snapped this photo of my uncle, made a photocopy, sketched over it with colored pencils on a thin paper overlay, taped both to a glass door wall for natural backlighting and re-photographed the combined images.

Manet's scandalous tableaux.

Resonance: Worst-case scenario

A color rendition of the pen and ink drawing I did of the same subject. I wanted to see how that abstraction worked with solid forms and volumes.

A small town in the south of France. I like the labyrinth of streets that lead from the arched gate of the medieval wall to the town center.

This image is for discussion only.

This illustration is for discussion only -see blog - on the visual characteristics of art. (That doesn't mean I can't print one out for you. Inquire).

Take a stack of garage-sale cameras, screw 'em together, paint white, pencil-sketch them using the Peterson Syncrotraceurreg dual mirror eye-piece and - voila!. (Laser print reproduction only for sale.)

More than an exercise in draftsmanship, this pencil drawing is a formal abstraction of the interior of the schoolhouse at the Troy (Michigan) Museum and Historic Village. Laser print reproduction for sale inquire about original.

An off-kilter rendition of the neighborhood from my front window.

A young woman is eating thimbleberries on a sunny forest path next to Lake Superior. (This painting is currently on loan).

Laguna Beach, home of the late legendary street-greeter Eiler Larson, is also a good place to eat a bean-sprout sandwich (not to mention crawl the art galleries).

This is based on a photo I took of an artisan at a black-coral jewelry factory who was playing guitar on a mid-day break.