Here is some of my work, not all or necessarily the best of it, but I thought people might enjoy seeing what I do with my copious spare time. <grin>
I do my own Christmas cards, and this is my card from Christmas 1993. I'm an observant Christian, so I was surprised when the card came out as something with no overtly religious theme, let alone anything related to the birth of Christ. I also love ballet, though, and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker is a perennial favorite, except that I was never satisfied with how the Sugar Plum Fairy looked on stage.... Anyway, here is how she looks in my mind, or looked at one point, anyway. You can also retrieve the PDF version of the entire card, view it, or print it out if you have Adobe Acrobat.
A scan of a sketch I did last winter of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Although I am an Orthodox Christian, this was not done in an iconographic style. I prefer young mothers to look like young mothers, and babies to look like babies, and am convinced the Lord looked like a perfectly normal human baby when he was born. :) Perhaps this is because every infant I've ever seen is an icon to me....
A rather odd, but interesting, sketch of a friend and his daughter, done not with charcoal, but on my computer using Fauve Matisse, a bitmap graphics program that was popular in the mid-1990s.
This is one of a large number of sketches, drawings, and paintings I've done of this particular view from this particular vantage point. This is how the Pacific Ocean looks from 1600 ft. up, less than a mile from the coast. So perhaps you can understand why I like it here so much.
This is a sketch of a friend, Sonny Cresswell, a glassblower who owns the property that overlooks Conyer's Canyon, and whose work is some of the most beautiful art I've ever seen. One day I was watching him make a vase and started sketching. This is what came out.
Timber Cove is one of many such spots along the Pacific Coast, between California's Big Sur and British Columbia. I did this during a beach picnic celebrating the Fourth of July, the U.S. Independence Day holiday.
Stuff is coming, when I get around to photographing it, scanning the photographs, and posting them. <grin>
This is a poster I did a couple of years ago. The poem on it is the second elegy from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies. When I did it, I didn't think I had anyone particular in mind, but the "angel" came out looking spookily like someone I knew years ago. Art does that to you....
I did this poster for a coworker's wife, who organized the conference it refers to. Unfortunately, the printer messed it up :(, but I'm rather proud of the original product. So here it is.
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