This pair of watercolor paintings express rigid geometry, which is softened through the medium of watercolor.  As you can see, the pairing uses inverted areas of color, i.e., the blue canvas uses the primarily convex side to shade in and the pinkish canvas uses the concave portion of the same shape.  This pair sits in the hallway of the clinical skin care side of my spa.

This colored pen drawing is now split between upstairs in a vacant space and in my spa manager’s office downstairs.  This is the only time I used colored pens to express myself.  The piece is done on cold-pressed watercolor paper.  I think it is a fun piece that emphasizes both color and line.  It is hard to see in this photograph but the lines are a combination of red and orange interspersed.

I bought these three canvases then decided I was sick of painting and only wanted to do paper drawings.  After many many drawings, I started to do print work using linoleum.  I then thought that I could somehow create a linoleum print onto canvas.  That took some finagling.  I first realized that the linoleum block that I had was too small to fit so I then found out that I could use it to cover exactly 1/4th the size of the canvas.  By doing so I inverted the block to create various patterns on each canvas.  By making an expanding grid pattern on the linoleum I could have a line pattern that radiated toward greater width in one canvas and the reverse in the adjacent canvas.  In order to transfer the ink from the linoleum to the canvas, I had to jerry rig two cardboard pieces with a ton of chopsticks between them so that the ink roller would not bend into the canvas during rolling.  Somehow it all worked out!  I love the use of orange both because it goes well with both blue and yellow but also because it adds complexity since it is not the expected primary color of red that would normally be paired with yellow and blue.  I also like the purple blue color that is truly unique.  Again the juxtaposition of rigidity and handfeel is a pleasant one for me and a recurrent theme in many of my later works.

This acrylic painting that measures 4′ x 4′ is perhaps the most explicit homage to Ellsworth Kelly in its geometric purity and use of bright colors.  However, the work is all mine, and I love the interplay of magenta, yellow, and green.  Somehow those 3 colors really go well together and certainly keeps the viewer awake!  By the way, I have not put all of my paintings on this website.  There would be too many (as perhaps there already are).  I just selected many that would show different media and different stages in my evolution as an artist.  The painting currently hangs inside the salon’s break room.