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I have always had an affinity for machines: large industrial machines, generators, electric motors, aircraft engines, turbines, diesel engines, power generation equipment, and various mechanical structures found in large industrial facilities, mines and military applications. I find related visual material from a variety of sources: books websites about tanks and military vehicles, missile silos, battleships and submarines, aircraft, mines, clocks, blast furnaces, mills, production facilities, factories, power plants and research facilities.  Occasionally,  I have take advantage of opportunities to visit some of these places and photo document many interesting things that I see.Examples of some of the places that I...

My art can generally be classified by these basic themes: geometry, symbols, machines, structures, science fiction and perspective.  In this blog post, I will address one of my favorite themes: perspective. In these drawings, I have attempted to use perspective to create an imaginary space where objects and structures exist. When I create these drawings, I am able to visualize these artificial spaces and they become tangible, real places.  The objects and structures become three dimensional and they exist in their own unique environment.  Here are several examples of drawings utilizing perspective.   This is called “Rendezvous”. This is my...

In 1986, I started experimenting with color drawings. It was hard to find ink with the correct viscosity for my Rapidograph pens. After some experimentation, I decided to use air brush ink. This type of ink seemed to work fine and did not clog the pen tips. I did a lot of experimental small drawings. My first serious large 14″ x 17″ drawing was simply titled “Color Drawing #34”. This drawing is still one of my favorite of all drawings.  As was the case with many of my early drawings, it is completely 2-d  abstract geometry with multiple layers of...