photo paintings:


the photo-paintings were made about 10 years ago (2012) — most of them were made by manipulating a single image using photoshop filters and layering techniques

the ‘fleurs du mal’ images are the type of semi-figurative image that i normally wouldn’t care much for and i didn’t try to achieve the effects — working with flower images i discovered that by using an image with a vertical or horizontal flipped version of it — strange ‘demonic’ figures seem to emerge — they intrigued me and i started to look for more




paintings:


like most of my art i never did much painting that satisfies me although i like the physical act of painting — i was hesitant to put these works on the web but think they are useful as a complement or supplement to the notebooks
one series of paintings was done on particle board that had been the bottoms and sides of cabinets we replaced during a house remodeling project — i thought i could use them for a series of paintings to try various painting techniques —but it turned out to be not such a good idea — i didn’t like the surface texture and the panels were too heavy — (and i didn’t like my painting) — i photographed them in various stages of development and they all ended up in the trash —
the second image in the top row is one of the panels — the 3rd & 4th in the first row and the middle three images in the 2nd rows are all details of that paintings — some have been rotated
the first and last images of the bottom row were made by painting pages from a 'photographis' book —
the middle three images were made by spreading black paint onto pages of a physicians’ desk reference — letting them dry and then pulling them apart

visual art

visual art:


for years i’ve (rather pretentiously) thought of myself a visual artist although my visual art productions was sparse (recently nearly non-existent) — i didn’t realize it for most of my life but my main artistic outlet is the journal that forms the largest part of this web site
still - 50 years of sporadic production results in quite a bit of work — i’ve tried many different art methods including: painting - sculpture - assemblage - collage - altered books - photography - digital art … etc — i consider[ed] most of the art i did to be failures but decided to include some of my visual art on the site because it has occupied a great deal of my thinking if not my work — i’m starting with a few things but will probably add more later

not only is my art not that good but my photographs of it are even worse — i want to thank my wife for doing a lot of work with Adobe Lightroom to make these photos presentable 

i will provide more information about these works in the future

black and white:


the black and white works in the first set were mostly done between 1972 and 1990
most of them are black ink on paper or mat board — i also tried painting on canvas and plywood but wasn’t happy with the texture of the works — i preferred the more ‘crisp’ lines of the in drawings
the top row and first four in the second row are ink works — the 3rd and 4th of the top row and the middle image in the 2nd row are details of larger works — the two works on the right side of the 2nd and 3rd rows are paint on canvas
i still like the ink on paper works although i’m sometimes hesitant to call them art — i used to refer to them as op art but i’ve always thought of them as closer to the minimal music of Philip Glass and Steve Reich
When we were living in northern new york - we had a small (unsuccessful) art gallery for about a year i think we did a good job of with the gallery but there was not much of an audience and almost no market — unfortunately we didn’t have any professional photos done and i was not good at doing interior photos of art so our documentation is not good — my wife and i each had a vanity show — the first four images in the bottom row are from my show —

recently i started doing this type of black & white graphic work using Adobe Illustrator — working digitally has a lot of advantages such as crisper lines - the ability to easily correct mistakes - to quickly make several variations of the same design - and to easily change the scale of the design —
the second set of images are examples of this digital work