This is one of my first attempts at oil painting, from nearly 25 years ago. The concept comes from an episode of the original Outer Limits series.It was an episode I remembered seeing once, but hadn’t seen in over a decade, so my interpretation of the alien was not intended to be at all faithful…
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I did this for a drawing class in community college way back when. Let me do the math. 27 years ago, when I was 21. I think the teacher (now deceased) was a little shocked. Shows influences of Bacon in the treatment of interiors and flattening of picture plane. It’s among my favorites of my…
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Part of a series of charcoal drawings I did from my imagination. This one is a bit Symbolist, with a good dose of Expressionism, while also showing the influence of Francis Bacon, and being reminiscent of sci-fi TV shows I watched on my black and white TV as a kid. This image is for sale…
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This is #4 of a series of 12, 3X4 ft. acrylic paintings done >20 years ago. [Note: I actually did all but 3 of these before I started at UCLA. During my first semester I had a painting class in which the teacher rejected this style because it was figurative, and she made abstract work.]…
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Periodically I’ll introduce something I did a long, long time ago. I used to do pieces like the above by smearing charcoal on paper, then looking for whatever imagery would crop up, then realizing it by drawing, smearing, and erasing. I think the eraser was the tool I used the most. I wanted to use…
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