A Seldom Seen Stretch of the Eulipian River

by | Sep 3, 2008 | arm, art, body, breast, burning woman, hip, legs, nipple, nude, photo-collage, skin, sky, tan

I worked at a restaurant named Eulipia in San Jose, California from 1981-1994 while I was going to graduate school and starting out as a college art instructor. I finally left when I moved to Tulsa to start a new career in Interactive Design.

This collage was a result of a photo shoot with three of my co-workers from the restaurant. We did the shoot in one of their backyards while they were sunbathing on a hot summer day. I had been creating a series of collages that used body part close ups combined with sky or other neutral colored backgrounds.

‘A Seldom Seen Stretch of the Eulipian River’

This collage resulted from having all the photos on my drawing board which was a large door actually attached to two drawing board bases. As I laid them out I started seeing a flow to the images. I originally had only one row, with the body below and the sky above. At that point it seemed like a landscape. But I had a lot of photos from the shoot and I laid out a second row to see if those photos might have a different rhythm and flow to them.

I got the idea to turn the top row over and the blue matched up and became a river in my mind. Then it was just a matter of finding the right place for each photo so the flow of the river was pleasing to my eye.

People of Color #4 – Portrait with Mask and Sunburn

by | Aug 14, 2008 | bed, drawing, girl, mask, nude, prismacolor, reclining, sheet, sunburn, tan, woman

Day four of my week long series on ‘People of Color’. A regular customer of mine at the restaurant where I worked for many years. I didn’t mean it to be such a flat, graphic image but something about the lines on the sheet and pillow started me in that direction and it slowly built from there. It wasn’t stylistically consistent with my other work at the time, but the subject matter and the stripes definitely were.

I don’t know if she ever saw this drawing or not actually.

‘Portrait With Mask and Sunburn’, prismacolor on paper, 22″ x 30″

The Clouds of Knowing – Velveteen Woman Project #46

by | Jul 29, 2008 | blue eyes, california, collage, del mar, dress, dresses, face, lipstick, pink, portrait, pretty, store, tan, woman

The Dress shop clerk, happy and without guile. We have gone in the store a number of times on
our visit to Del Mar, it is a resale shop with great clothes and great deals. We were looking for
hats for the first day of the Del Mar Racetrack season, which we were going to attend just for
fun! Didn’t find a hat there, but did find some great deals and a great Tommy Bahama shirt.

She had brilliant blue eyes and the bright San Diego sun was out in full force so I asked her to
pose for me right outside her shop, which she was happy to do. I am not sure she was hot on my
taking photos of her feet, probably worried I had a foot fetish or something (I don’t), but she
allowed me to nonetheless.

Del Mar, California, July 2008

Color Composition #9

by | Jun 27, 2008 | back, color, dress, farmers market, purse, shoulder, tan, woman

Last in the series of Color Compositions taken in June, 2008 at the Cherry Street Farmer’s Market in Tulsa, OK.
Next week it’s all about the USA!

I like this one a lot due to the bag being right down the middle of the image. I have been working on a REALLY old laptop since
January 08 and I have been doing the color based on that monitor. Now I am on my new computer and I realize how many of my images are oversaturated. But in this case I think I like it!

Color Composition #5

by | Jun 19, 2008 | basket, bottle, bucket, color, composition, photo, pink, redhead, table cloth, tan, water

Sorry for being absent for a few days. We took a road trip to Texas for college
orientation for our daughter.

The remainder of this week and next I am going to show a series of color compositions I
did while at the local Farmer’s Market here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I led a small group from our photo club in experimenting with color and composition and
here are a few of the images I came up with.

What Does Modern Look Like? – Sketchbook With Voices

by | Apr 11, 2008 | back, bathing suit, museum, nude, sunburn, tan, tan lines

This collage is in a book called ‘Sketchbook with Voices’. It is actually a
sketchbook of blank pages with an idea, question, statement or assignment by an artist.
I got it way back in the 80s and decided to use it for photo sketches instead of
regular drawings. This image is probably the only image in the whole book that has
any drawing in it at all.

The black and white image in the background was taken by me during a photo shoot with
a friend. My sister-in-law at the time knew that I liked tan lines and took the
color photo of her friend while on vacation in Mexico and sent it to me.

You can see digital versions of this type of image, people in a museum looking at
some huge photo on the wall, which is actually the photo of the person making the
image. Just remember where they got the idea, ok? LOL