"Forest Flake"

Photo of mushrooms on a log in Bond Park.  A little skewing and many copy/paste & rotates. ...shown at CPA Member's show at Cary Arts Center, December 2012.

"Team Okra"

Nikon D5000 10 second exposure with LED flashlight for a light source.  These are giant okra left over from our garden...some 5" long.  Photo was first presented for the CPA as part of their "Night Shots" show and tell.

"Unburried Eye"

An unusual competition...  Pay $35; get a "Mystery Box" in the mail; create a sculpture from the items in the box by deadline.  Everyone gets the same items.  Oh... and the sculpture must fit a song theme [of the participant's choosing].  I had the urge to sculpt an eye and do a nature scene, so googled "lyrics eye nature" and found a non-hit song by an unknown [to me] band, The Swans. Kind o' weird, but I won a prize!

"The Garden" - after Miro

Acrylic on canvas board; created for the VAE's March '11 "Emulus" show.  (Jury gave it the thumbs up!)  Cool picture by Miro; it was tougher to paint than I thought it would be.

"Daybreak" - after Maxfield Parrish

Oil on canvas board.  Started in 1980 or so, stored in a garbage bag for 30 years then pulled out and finished in Jan, 2011.  Juried into the VAE's March '11 "Emulus" show.

"Skies Over Montoro"

Digital composite of an old doodle of mine, colorized and pasted into a photo I took in Montoro Spain.  VAE "Unfettered" show - April 2011

"Private Picnic"

Crafted from poplar, stained and varnished - specifically for the VAE show "Small Works" Feb 2011.  Design came from one of my recent doodles.  (8"X6")

"Apex"

Invited to show my photography in the Exchange Gallery (VAE)  for January, I decided to do something bigger.  I mounted about 30 prints of my Integra taillights photo on hardboard to construct this.  Approx. 4'X5'; 'was a challenge to make it as separate panels for easy shipping and installation.

"[Mr.] Needles"

Created for - and juried into - the VAE's "Monster Mash" show, Oct. '10.  This is a composite of 4 photos.  Hand and face were modeled on a blank board from "blenderized" pine needles, and background is from sifted pine needle dust thrown in front of the spotlight on the deck.  ...just because.

"Grasp of the Strongman"

This is the second piece in my "Circus" collection, made of wood, metal, and wire. The red ovals and blue circles and squares are 3-dimensional. The "lines" are acrylic-covered wire suspended in front of the orange acrylic background. This made it into the "Nothing Rhymes with Orange" show in June 2010 at the VAE.

"One Orange Twist Please"

Digital photo of piece of playground equipment...tinted orange, spiral blurred and cropped. This was created for the VAE Photographer's Forum suggested theme: circle... and for entry into VAE's June show "Nothing Rhymes With Orange".  Judged by Kathleen Rieder, NCSU School of Art & Design professor. This and "Grasp of the Strongman" made it into the show.

"Fall at the Circus"

Mixed media: acrylic, metal (recycled cookie tin), scrap wood. You can't tell from the photo, but the sword blades, barbell, cannon, cannon ball, whip and misc. parts are 3 dimensional. The piece is 42 inches long. The inspiration: a semi-random doodle I made during a department meeting at SAS years ago. (Sold!)

"Berry N'ice"

Original photo was taken before sundown in Feb 2010 after a snow/ice mixture of 5 inches. Or was it sunrise? The shadows don't tell you! Oh... and in the high-res version, you'd see a head among the berries!  On display at VAE (11X30) in August show: "Snapshot"

"Road Fun"

This image is a composite of a single photo I took in Apex, replicated several times and mirrored in Photoshop. The photo was taken from 4 inches above Apex Peakway, near Salem St. at 3a.m.. In the picture is the yellow center line and a single pair of tail lights. Exposure time was 15 seconds.

"Four Times the Rachis"

Accepted into the juried Cary Photo Artists' Annual Show, Nov 2009. This is a photo of a rachis of grass seeds - enhanced slightly and twice-mirrored with Photoshop.

Untitled

One of my corporate b&w doodles brought into living color (acrylic on paper). 23"x36"

"October Orb#2"

Acrylic abstract accepted into the Raleigh ArtSpark show, 2009.

"Embers of Her Youth"

This received an honorable mention in the VAE Gallery's juried show, "Seeing Red", July 2009. Printed at 18"X24" and framed in black, unmatted. It is a composite of two enhanced photos: campfire embers from the last road trip with my daughter before she turned 18; "self portrait" she made on our scanner years before (look closely near lower right).

"Snake on Pavers"

Submitted to VAE's "Pulp" show in 2009; acrylic on paper and blobs of pulp.

Campfire embers! Long exposure using Canaon S3 with intentional camera motion. Digital modifications in Adobe Photoshop, including "glowing edges" filter and adhoc edits to fade left and right borders to black.

Rachis on...!

Image taken with Canon S3 in butterfly garden at park outside of Blacksburg VA. Digitally enhanced contrast in Adobe Photoshop; "plastic wrap" filter applied to background layer. Presented to Cary PAC, March 2009. Displayed at Jordan Hall in PAC Members' Show, Dec 2009.

"The Flashing"

Original image taken with Canon S3, cropped, 'watercolor' filtered and mirrored in Adobe Photoshop. From the collection of Cary Elementary School photos taken for a Cary PAC challenge. Submitted to VAE "Unfettered" show, May 2009.