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Papain

Papain, Acrylic and oil on Hardboard, 24" x 48"

Acrylic and Oil on Hard­board From a mono­print with Zayda. She said she liked papaya so I took her lit­er­ally. This is pre­sen­ta­tional of my illus­tra­tion work, very car­toony in some respects. The yel­low glow around the edges reminds me of a Lady Guadalupe I saw painted on a Mex­i­can bus. Papain is a protein-​digesting enzyme obtained from unripe papaya fruit, used…

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Dana’s Mandala — Vishnu

Dana's Mandala - Vishnu, Acrylic and Oil on Hardboard, 24" x 24"in two pieces

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board I remem­ber this from Joseph Camp­bell, “Brahma sits on a lotus, the sym­bol of divine energy and divine grace. The lotus grows from the navel of Vishnu, who is the sleep­ing god, whose dream is the uni­verse.” When I started this with Dana, I had no idea where it was going,…

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Lilith’s Raiment

Lilith Marie's Raiment - Glimmer

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board I worked with Lilith Marie on my first man­dala, she did a beau­ti­ful job and it was a break­through piece for me. When it came time to make some­thing for her, she asked for a dress along the lines of Kali’s Rai­ment. We made two prints, one warm and defined (featured…

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Narcissus, Dissected

Narcissus, Dissected. Monoprint, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard 24" x 48"

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board It’s my curse, as an observer, to take things apart and see how they work. This is a mono­print of my for­mer lover, Saman­tha, a woman I will never for­get. She and I were lucky enough to walk a path together. After our relationshop’s end, I spent too much to ana­lyz­ing every­thing, turn­ing it…

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Dana’s Mandala (in progress)

Dana's Mandala, Third Layer, 48" x 48"

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board UPDATE: I had reached a stop­ping point resolv­ing the shapes in the third layer of Dana’s Man­dala. I asked her to share with me her love of fruits, flow­ers, rab­bit fur and some of her other favorites. She told me that she liked blood oranges and arti­chokes. I applied those col­ors and shapes to…

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Selu

Selu, Monoprint, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard. 48" x 24"

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board Many years ago a good friend of mine asked me to do a mural for her new baby. We based the works on cre­ation myths from dif­fer­ent cul­tures. One wall had Gabriel touch­ing the baby, allow­ing it to for­get it’s past and start anew. The sec­ond was the Egypt­ian Goddess…

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Tesouro Enterrado

Tesouro Enterrado, Monoprint, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard, 24" x 48"

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board From a ses­sion with Trea­sure explor­ing waves and refrac­tions. It’s one of those pieces that prac­ti­cally painted itself. The print of Trea­sure was so strong, the work didn’t need much embell­ish­ment. Click on the thumb­nail to view the larger image.

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Três Azeitonas

Glass Olive, Monoprint, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board A trip­tych series of mono­prints fea­tur­ing Glass Olive, one of my favorite peo­ple to work with. These were printed last year as part of the same ses­sion that yielded Quid­dity and Choron­zon. All three are 13″ x 24″ on Hard­board. Click on the thumb­nail to view the larger image.

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elaria’s mandala

elaria's mandala, Monoprint, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Wood, 48" x 48"

Mono­print, Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Wood The final ver­sion of a man­dala cre­ated in colab­o­ra­tion with elaria, a bal­let dancer with a pure, white light. I’ve strug­gled might­ily with piece over weeks since it’s incep­tion, hav­ing moments of insight and fits of frus­tra­tion, bat­tling the color scheme and work­ing in har­mony with the roses I found in the torso…

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Kensho

Kensho, Monoprint, Acrylic and Oil on Hardboard

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board I’ve been lis­ten­ing to “A New Earth” by Eck­hart Tolle while I paint. In one pas­sage, he uses the term Satori, a Japan­ese Bud­dhist term for enlight­en­ment, mean­ing “under­stand­ing”. I thought it the per­fect title for the paint­ing. In research­ing the mean­ing, I came across Ken­sho, in the Zen Bud­dhist tra­di­tion, satori…

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