Miniture Drawings Plus

Tiny Skulls: miniture drawing; ink/Witeout/Sharpie on leather: 2"x3"

Tiny Spiderman: ink/Witeout in small notebook; 5"x3.5"

Ball Sack: charcoal on gray Rives BFK heavyweight paper; 6"x8"

I Stay Away #3: charcoal on gray BFK; approx. 13"x18.5"

Die Mauer: charcoal on gray BFK; 22"x30"

Loose Seven: charcoal on gray BFK; 30"x44"

Ash Wednesday: charcoal on gray BFK; 22"x30"

Lucky Thirteen: charcoal on gray BFK; 22x30"

Followed: oil glazes over several poems mounted on Masonite; 31"x29"

Sunset on Lake Michigan: Acrylic on canvas; 19"x25"

Murals & Large Scale Drawings

Arizona Memorial: oil on wood

Domino Junction: approx  220"x60" charcoal on gray Rives BFK heavyweight paper

Grace Under Pressure: charcoal

Route 66 Leftover Scraps: 168"x30" charcoal

Miners of Picher Okla: approx life size; oil/concrete

Picher Boom: oil on concrete

Sarcophagi: 46"x33" oil & wax on canvas

Rite of Passage

Gnomanic Depressive

I adore you, Lefty

...this is a charcoal I made him because of his love for all things equine...I need to get it matted and framed so I can send it to him. I need to find out his birthday. It's either in October and he's a Libra or in August which would make him a Leo.

Relics and Ruins

More charcoals from my Wastelands Suite and some oil paintings they led to...

Y.M.C.A.: 30"x22" charcoal on gray Rives BFK... I originally took this picture because I was fascinated by the abstract quality of the windows, and that led to a series of paintings, but eventually this charcoal led to my relic drawings which became much bigger than anything I'd done before.

Cross: 44"x30" charcoal on gray BFK heavyweight... I love the climbing depth in this one.

Field of Beams: 30"x22" charcoal on gray BFK ...this drawing led to several variations.

And a Stream Runs Through It: 47"x41" oil/wax/dry pigments on canvas

Rite de Passage: 30"x22" charcoal on gray BFK ...I gave this drawing to my cousin when he completed his 12 step program to kick drugs and alcohol. That was his rite of passage.

Rust In Pieces: 96"x119" oil on broken masonite

Entrance: charcoal and chalk on handmade gray paper

Futuristic Wastelands in Charcoal

I love the rich velvety black I can achieve with charcoal and I use erasers as mark making devices to lift the powdery black pigment and reveal progressively lighter gray tones beneath, kind of like pencils in reverse. 

It can be a notoriously messy medium but that's a relatively small price to pay for the wonderfully full bodied images you can create.

These are some of my enigmatic landscapes.

Alternating Currents: charcoal on gray Rives BFK heavyweight paper, 44"x30"

Posted Runes: charcoal on gray BFK, 30"x22"

Roll the Bones: charcoal on gray BFK, 30"x22" To make this drawing I cropped a tiny area from the cover of Rush's Roll the Bones CD.

My version is nothing compared to this original image by Canadian artist Hugh Syme, who has painted virtually every Rush cover since their third release, Caress of Steel in 1975. He has also designed cover art for Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Styx, Aerosmith and others. Having been nominated 18 times for the Juno Award (the Canadian Grammy), Syme has won the coveted trophy 5 times, including Best Album Design in 1992 for this album, Roll The Bones. Now, isn't art history fun? lol