Abstract or Non-objective Form

These paintings were made using the concept that oil resists water. I would flood the white canvas with water then spill the liquified oil paint into the puddle and play with it until I got the image I was pleased with. It sometimes took two or three days for the water to fully evaporate and another week or two for the oil paint to completely dry. But the results were worth the wait.

Viridian IX: 55"x67" oil on canvas... viridian is one of my favorite colors. The pigment is made from hydrated oxide of chromium.

The center four canvases are my Composer Series from top: Chopin; Johann Sebastian; Wolfgang Amadeus and Ludwig Von: each 40"x38" 

Black Iris: 55"x67" oil on canvas

Djarum Series I-VII

Djarum VII: 40"x55" oil and silkscreen on canvas

Waves: 12"x12" oil on wood

Homage to Gerhard Richter: 12"x12" oil on wood

Pepsi Cola 5¢

Pepsi Cola 5¢: 19"x26" oil & acrylic on wood panel

I wanted it to look like a wall of worn posters

Perfect 10

I found this billiard ball buried near where a pool table business burned to the ground. My guess is, it had been projected from the explosion.

Reclining Figure

inspired by the magnificent work of 20th Century master Henry Moore.

I love ceramics. I made this using an Egyptian paste: a technique in which the glazes are combined in the plastic clay body. It's mounted on an oak base.

Boxes Part II

Boxes Part I

3D Pieces

Grace and Grit: approx 14" tall; concrete, plaster with patina on marble base

Damage Inc.: approx 16" tall; concrete, plaster with patina mounted on marble

The Joplin Tornado

The devastation was indescribable. You know that feeling when your heart sinks, well I had that feeling all the while I was there. It was a feeling of helplessness, like you want to do more but didn't really know where to begin, but always staying hopeful you would help uncover someone else that was still alive. 

Tornadoes can completely wipe out a community. I know that now, and I have a new respect for that facet of nature's wrath.

Wal-Mart was leveled flat, and several people perished.

This was an Academy Sporting goods store. I heard there was looting there and some guys were trying to make off with several guns, and someone may (or may not) have been shot by police in the confrontation that ensued.

it was like a bomb hit everywhere you went for miles

A shopping center...cars were tossed about like toys.

As far as you could see the trees were swept away. Only bare trunks stood here and there.

Joplin High School

Joplin High School

The series of arches is a walkway between buildings at the high school...I'm doing a painting with these arches as the subject, similar to the painting And A Stream Runs Through It.....only it'll be called, And A Tornado Runs Through It

Trees were entangled in everything it seemed... where trees aren't suppose to be...

more of the high school

The only thing left standing of the St. Mary's Catholic church was the cross -- like a small miracle.

some new favorite wallpapers