Credit should be given to my friend Helena Nelson-Reid, this was her comment about the work, and I think likely the best interpretion: "Tiamat's children: Born to the sea, they drift upon undulating waves of shimmering, phosphorescent krill mirrorin...

This is a reworking of lta href=http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-beast-of-babylon-otto-rapp.html"target="blank"gtmy drawinglt/agt as a painting, using acrylic glazes over egg tempera in an adaption of the mische technique.

A photoshop digital manipulation of a detail from a drwaing I was working.

On a walk through the River Valley I took pictures of cotton trees. The bare branches reminded me of gestural drawing. By flipping and mirroring the shot it took on new dimensions. The mysterious orb in the center started out as a detail shot of expo...

A tongue in cheek variation of the Ouroboros serpent, peddling in self-consuming fashion through the landscape of Bogomil's Universe past the observant scrutiny of the Eary-Bird, a distant cousin of Odin's Raven.

Acrylic ink on mylar (decalcomania technique) layered over stock photo of parchment, digitally manipulated, flipped mirror image.

From photo manipulation to drawing, now I painted the portrait of my wife Christan on a small canvas, utilizing a adaption of Mische Technique (acrylic glazes and tempera instead of oil glazes).

Bear Bull was a Native American Shaman and Medicine Pipe Owner of the Blackfoot Nation (19th Century). I thought the way the stockmarket is going lately, the name is kind of an omen (of hope), going from bear to bull .... soon, before I go broke...

done in 1978 - another older painting, added to my line-up here.

acrylic on canvas 28"x20" 1976 an old one - it was missing in my line-up here, but someone asked for it, so here it is! The original painting had been damaged beyond repair - so this digital image is all that remains!

India Ink (Micron Pen) Drawing on buff Arches etching paper - 11.75" X 8.5" - 2008 Please note the original size when ordering prints! The image was loaded with good resolution (300dpi), thus larger prints are possible (up to 30x40).