new faces

new faces

my granddaughter came to visit over thanksgiving and we went to greenville, sc to check out the museum there. they had a great collection of jasper johns work, which was so inspiring. we shopped at a little store that had old photos, slides, match books, and a lot of...
brushes

brushes

experimenting with different brushes in procreate to create these “fragment paintings”. starting with a canvas of 4000 px square, i bring in a photo, add a layer and paint on some color, then close the photo layer. this used the wet acrylic brush…....
lost at coney island

lost at coney island

so the story goes that my brother got lost at coney island and here is the photo showing him looking for us, late 1950s. i am assuming the shot was taken by my dad, because he was the always the camera person. i have no idea who that man is, could he have been a...
grandpa

grandpa

breaking away from my two layered style with “fragments” i was totally experimenting with this one. i made 4 layers of color and worked over each after removing the original photo.  this is a cherished photo of my grandpa playing with me and my cousin...
fragments revisited

fragments revisited

fragments revisited is a continuation of fragments of women in america. i usually just do the parts of the image that is the body without the clothes, but i also like the clothes themselves and in this case “painted” the clothes on separate layers in procreate so that...