Landscape at Assos

I remember being stunned when I first looked out over the water at the Greek island of Lesvos.  The beauty of the space and the distance between the land masses made me feel how grand the scale of this landscape is.  There was a mist around the Island that looked like the Island was floating on a cloud.  The weather was hot and dry up at what is left of the Temple of Athena at Assos.

The DogLady with Jugman and Self Portrait

This is an oil painting executed around January 1997.

Portraits of A. Hitchcock and R W Fassbinder

Digital pen drawing of Alfred Hitchcock.  One of the first images I made  using a computer I had to draw this with a mouse before I got my wacom tablet.

Digital drawing of the great German film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.  I used a digital  crayon and pen with a smudge tool to soften the edges of crayon strokes.

Two Portraits

This is a portrait of Ginger Baker painted in Acrylic paint

Portrait of Pete Townshend painted in Watercolor

Three images of the DogLady

Pencil drawing of the DogLady with Jugman and Snailman.
This drawing was made in August 2011when I got the idea to
set the DogLady in Turkey with other characters.

Painted in 1999

Watercolor painted in October 2011

Three images on the development of the DogLady

The DogLady with the Jugman

This watercolor was painted around 1998 and I was trying to figure out what would work with the DogLady.  The Jugman is a replica of an ancient Aztec water container and to me both work well together.  I don't consider this a good painting to me its rather clumsy and the composition is off.

Pies

Pies on a table

Still Life with the DogLady

This painting is about 15 years old and one of my first attempts at using the DogLady with other still life objects.  In this painting I was attempting to see what would work together and as time went on the water jug and the DogLady were kept together.  Also I was beginning a thinking process where the DogLady was involved in a story line with other objects.

Photograph of The DogLady

The DogLady is a figurine I have had for many years made and given to me by Vanessa Crymes.  In posts to come there will be images of the DogLady, but this post will give you an idea where she the DogLady comes from and from the picture that she is real and her size.  In drawings to come the DogLady will travel to Assos and will meet Ataturk and Sinan also she will visit the underground caves beneath Venice.

First blog

My first blog post ever and I don't know what I am doing.  I like this image a sunny day in Assos Turkey up on high at the Temple of Athena looking south at the Greek island of Lesvos.