Defenders Of An Imaginary Despot - Part One

Blue Boy

Mechanized Mondrian

This is a piece from my recent  "Mechanized Masters" series. I've been taking color plates from a favorite History of Art book and drawing on them with pen and ink to create a new and fun way of looking at them.

Spring Break - time for some....Deep Thoughts.

Deep Thoughts   Pen, ink and watercolor on paper    24"x24"

First Robin of Spring - the "Spirit of Spring Sketches"

A few weeks ago in early Spring I was inspired to sketch a small tree outside my window across my driveway that was just beginning to get earlier than usual beautiful little white buds. About halfway through the sketch, when I was working on the upper area, a robin flew in and landed right in the perfect compositional spot! As if it was sent by the "Spirit of  Spring Sketches". I took it as nature's spontaneous way of contributing to my effort. It stayed just long enough for me to include it in the sketch. I scanned the sketch in and added a little color in photoshop.

This is the full sketch from my sketchbook without any added color.

"Wheelies" at Index Art Center

Wheelies is a conceptual drawing that will be part of the ART CYCLE! exhibition at the
Index Art Center in Newark, NJ; which will run from March 10 through April 1, 2012.
The opening reception is Saturday, March 10, 7 to 11PM.  

Op Heart

Somewhere between a dream and reality.

Mechanized Mumbo-Jumbo in Maloney Art Gallery

This piece is in an exhibit titled: The Abstract Universe-Micrcocosm/Macrocosm at the Maloney Art Gallery,  College of St. Elizabeth, running from January 23 to April 15, 2012; featuring art inspired by science. This piece is a continuation of my ongoing series combining abstract elements with cartoon-like machine elements which express, in a light-hearted manner, both the promise and the futility of science and industry - both the order and the disorder - the hope and the futility - the knowing and the unknowing.