The OmTech 100 watt CO2 laser engraver was delivered to my studio December 22, 2022. The truck pulle…

Overlapping square spirals in white and black over a red ground.

Another painting with intense patterns in the overlapping square-spirals in five colors. Right-click…

I thought of this image as “The Valentine Portrait” of my wife, Linda because of the big…

Black and white square spirals on gray ground, the black augmented by spirals in a narrower line wid…

Experiment with a palette of green, orange, blue, black, and white square spirals.

I met Koichi Yamamoto in early November of 2016 during my term as adjunct professor of printmaking a…

Because of the way the four sets of spirals overlap in my painting Linda in Black, it seemed to be a…

Painted in overlapping rectangular (rather than square) spirals, each of the four canvases that make…

Another attempt at a more naturalistic color. The reference image in calculating the spiral densitie…

Life size portrait of Hal Wert in blue jeans with hands in pockets. Another shot at naturalistic col…

A slightly larger than life abstraction from a reference image of Emily. I was trying to show some a…

February of 2019 I began to paint the square spirals on canvas. First I’d paint on the unstret…

This large canvas is another square-spiral painting on canvas. Painted in red, yellow, blue, and whi…

In late January of 2019 I produced several works collaged from painted spirals.

January 22 and 23, 2019 I made two paintings, both highly abstracted renditions of Van Eyck’s …

In this painting, the portrait of Sinjun in red paint on an intense blue ground is entirely lost in …

Self portrait painting in yellow, red, blue, white on olive green ground on BFK. Still playing with …

Another self portrait painting, this one in red and blue spirals on white paper.

This, I think, is one of the most successful of the spiral paintings. A very simple and highly abstr…

An interesting experiment in color and the interplay of layers of different size spirals. From a dis…

Self portrait – another more or less failed effort to attain a naturalistic color. Still playi…

Painted in black and white acrylics over a gray acrylic ground, I was experimenting here with varyin…

Another attempt to realize naturalistic color. Red, yellow, blue, black, white on gray ground. Hmmm.…

An effort to produce naturalistic color in this self portrait painted in red, yellow, blue, black, a…

After the holiday, I made this second effort to portray my friend, Miguel Rivera, in square spirals,…

A portrait of my wife, acrylic painting on paper

My first efforts to make medium scale paintings on paper using acrylic paint pens in a special jig I…

My untitled self portrait for a print exchange exhibited at Southern Graphics Council 2019 in Dallas…

This was a long LONG process. Large drawings like this always take a long time, but this one took ab…

Why spirals? Because I can vary the density of my lines in any area without cross-hatching and witho…

One issue with my simple drawing tools is that, for the most part, the mark produced is uniform in w…

July through November of 2018 I made a slew of small drawings in ink on paper using the two AxiDraw …

For several months I’d been immersed in a large commission piece for a very large corporation.…

This drawing was made on a full sheet of Rives BFK Black paper, using white ink and the AxiDraw. The…

The AxiDraw is a simple, precise, and versatile pen plotter, capable of writing or drawing on almost…

Many mokuhanga (Japanese technique woodcut) printers are using an L-shaped kento registration jig. T…

“Secret Garden” is a view of clover near my Kansas City home, shot with my iPhone while walking Dais…

Having considered the act of creation through coding various processes to draw and paint, then docum…