Another attempt at a more naturalistic color. The reference image in calculating the spiral densities was Elena Sherman’s face. Painted on white canvas in red, yellow, blue, black, and white, I was still working to produce intricate tiles (the seven by nine main grid). She’s in there, but you’ve got to be far enough away […]

Life size portrait of Hal Wert in blue jeans with hands in pockets. Another shot at naturalistic color. I keep trying and trying! The resolution is so low that the image seem more robot man than Hal, I think, but I can almost see him in there!

A slightly larger than life abstraction from a reference image of Emily. I was trying to show some amazing variations of black on gray diagonals in this work. It’s so interesting to me!

February of 2019 I began to paint the square spirals on canvas. First I’d paint on the unstretched canvas, then I made stretchers and stapled or tacked the canvas to the stretchers. This first attempt is pretty large, almost eight feet tall, an abstraction of my friend Emily Kenny. The canvas was painted black, then […]

This large canvas is another square-spiral painting on canvas. Painted in red, yellow, blue, and white spirals over a black ground, I was interested in the diagonal moire patterns that developed in the white layers. Only the vaguest hint of the life-size image of Emily remains.