This picasso remake is surrounded by a pink mosiac quilt - truly fitting for a picasso lady. The distinctive black lines of this sleeping beauty offer the contrast she needs for a restful sleep. Acrylic paint on a canvas board.
One can never have enough heart! Especially on a tennis court where the silhouette of this early 1900's tennis player can be found. This paper mache heart was created first from a flat slab of paper mache, cured for 5 days, and dried to an uneven surface. Then cut to heart form, and painted with a base layer of silver - large drops of gold paint were dropped from 5 feet above creating wonderful blotches of imperfection. Copper drizzles complete the effect. Stop worrying about the imperfections! No heart is perfect...
This evergreen "bounty" wreath is filled with goodies! Let your imagination determine what those goodies might be... Painted on crinkled tissue paper, fused onto canvas, this 5' x 3' work uses special glittery copper accents to bring a sparkle into your bounty!
Lines, curves and shades of blue form the mosaic blues painted on a canvas board. Out of the "blue" sprout 3 delicate tulips. But wait, they need to be watered? The clay water bottle painted in shades of brown and accented in blue, is ready to provide the necessary drink.
Look closely. Are those dogwood blooms? Actual dogwood blooms? Yes they are! And they are preserved in a polyurethane wash. This bouquet of dogwoods burst from this painted clay pot. The backdrop adds vibrance with fingerpainted shades of reds and blues - on recycled wood.
Copper rods, combined with a tile mosaic, resting on a backdrop of textured wood painted with copper forms a plumbers duet. After a few false starts, I finally discovered a method to adhere all objects allowing them to appear suspended in space. 
This contemporary abstract mural is 15' in width by 5' in height. Acrylic painting on canvas - this commissioned work rests in the foyer of a 6000 sq foot home. There are 3 sections to this mural, and installing it was no easy feat! Painting it tho, was a treat - and it took nearly 2 months to complete! Sure, it's easy to find ONE pea in a pod...but see if you can locate 2 peas in a pod.
This painting of pricey bottled olive oil, holds a stalk of rosemary, and it's base is loaded with cloves of garlic. Painted on pine wood, the wood backdrop is preserved with touches of copper patina and blends of orange. The red tabletop holds the gourmet oil. And the dangling beads? Now come on. Use your imagination. I can't tell you everything!
If you get close enough, these textured ruby lips painted on a mirror - might actually pucker. And if they don't, you will be just as well for it! Shades of blue painted on recycled wood form the backdrop for the web of multi-colored hair, that didn't seem to get the same amount of attention as the lipstick. Thinned paint, tossed from a distance forms a very bad hair day!
Recycled wood forms the base of this 5' painting sculpture. Sculpture? Using tile mastic, layers of adhesion are applied to create the dimension, with silver and copper paint on top. The knights sword is a metal rod found curbside, and affixed to the tile mastic. 
A fish, is still a fish - even dressed up in black lipstick! This contemporary fish, has fish scales made of sesame seeds mixed with shiny white paint, a top a vintage pine cupboard. While this slippery creature disturbs the surface of the water with multiple finger painted colors, below the surface, he's just a slippery fish with big black lips.
This large vase of contemporary 'what not' flowers sits in front of a robust breezeway bordered by a red multi colored sarong curtain. Painted with acrylic, on top of plywood covered with tile adhesive - made for an ultra rough surface which was perfect for generating dimension. Horizontal brown and turquoise lines, contrast with the diagonal orange window panes. The painting stands 6' high, and 3' wide.
One of my early contemporary works - and one of my all time favorites. Chaos. Chaos has no beginning or end, no rhyme or reason. At one moment, you might see a "connection" -- only to look again and find that the connection is gone. This acrylic painting rests a top a recycled kitchen cupboard door - this painting took over 2 weeks to complete, with 16 layers of colors, as I waited for each layer to dry.
These 3 New Orleans street musicians were the inspiration for these two paintings on canvas. I selected an oval canvas allowing the tunes to continue long into the nite. Acrylic paints in vibrant colors are meant to bring the sounds of jazz to life.
Our first catamaran, Jacasso had a beautiful multi-colored spinnaker - which became the inspiration for this painting. A flat slab of paper mache dried to a wonderful convoluted form. Using acrylic paint, the spinnaker and main sail arise from a sea of blu, with multi colored fabric accents. And, the hull of this painting? Surely that cannot be copper painted coffee beans? Don't ask why...it just is. Rests on a black felt cover, over cardboard.
This 2 piece design represents the blather spewed when two heads are talking, and neither are listening! Each painting is atop a 4' x 4' piece of plywood, painted in purple and drizzled with thin white paint from above the surface. After each layer of paint dries, multiple colors of conversation is directed at the adjacent painting. The profile of the talker is in black with a protruding chin and nose and the brow line of their hat appears.
As cupboards are removed to create an open floor plan from our 1950's era home, each plank of wood is recycled into art. This pine cupboard door was roughed with fine sandpaper, and shades of red mixed with copper patina are gradiated at an angle to form the back drop. The turquoise vase holds a single painted heart leaf.
This elongated wine bottle is finger painted onto a background consisting of acrylic shades of white and orange, on top of a discarded 1950's era pine kitchen cupboard door. The blue wine bottle is complete with a cork affixed in the lower left corner.
This "experiment" was just too much fun! A paper mache background was first allowed to dry and shrivel to its final position. This created an uneven surface for painting and montage effects. Contemporary instruments (keyboard and guitar) were created digitally using PhotoShop, and distorted to their final positions. These instruments are then affixed to the paper mache, and painted to enhance the visual. Surrounding the jazz ensemble, are carefully selected fabrics, and hand tossed fabric paints to provide additional depth to the work. Paper mache is sealed, and mounted on a black felt over cardboard. The entire piece sits in a shadow box.
