I've been playing with photographs I've taken and existing pics from the Internet.  The way I approach this process is completely automatic, which is the reason why I cant's stop doing it.  There's a mysterious inner life that I discover within the manipulations, which reveals itself to me only as I spontaneously choose and place the images that I randomly find.  It's like dreaming, when images gather together to communicate something subliminal.  The message is not always easily understood by the rational mind, but my inner self seems to get it and enjoy it.

 I have begun a series of square paintings which will explore the theme of meditation.

I just posted the first one, "The Flower."

After the eight charcoal drawings of the "gods," I wanted to do eight "portraits" in color.

I began the drawing with pastels, but immediately realized that the texture of the paper called for more detail, which only with colored pencils I can achieve.  So most of the drawing is done with colored pencils.

I believe this one is my best drawing so far.  I really like the technique that the thick watercolor paper forced me to develop (texture), and the richness of the colors.  But what I'm very happy with is the portrait itself, what it is, the being that it becomes the more you look at it, and how mysteriously it looks back at me.

It's large (30" x 24"), so the picture in the site doesn't do justice to what it really is.  It took me three weeks to do, so seven portraits ahead seem right now like a long journey.

The more I think of them, they more I see them as representing the Female.

Should I call them then "Goddesses"? "Mothers"?  instead of Gods?

Or should I title them "Kinesis," for their organic and existential continuous movements, like those everywhere in Life?

I added two more and completed my original goal of eight.

Now I'm working on "portraits".  I just began the first of eight, which will be on larger paper and with colored pastels.

 I just posted six drawings of a series titled "Gods."

Each one is done with charcoal-pencil on 24" x 18" paper, and is a viewpoint, a level or aspect of what God, or the idea of It, may be.

I've done a couple of new paintings in which the space alone and the light in it are my only concern. My goal was to attain a sensation of organic and/or spirutual life in them without the aid of any organic or recognizable shapes. I think I got it.

The art exhibit at Saint Peter's College, "The Human Form," opened last Wednesday. It displayed an eclectic selection of paintings and sculptures that examine the nude body. I showed "Neptune," which I finished for that show, and it was received very well by most.

My painting of Saint Sebastian is finished.  I completed it for the show of Saint Sebastians at CFM Art Gallery.  I didn't want mine to be a pasive victim tied up with erotic connotations. I wanted my Sebastian to show inner and pfysical strenght, and to dare the viewer to understand who he really is.

I'm working on a painting title "Triangles," which has an emotional component unusual in my work. I can't wait to see it done so that I may understand fully how it makes me feel, and why. As soos as it's done I'll post it under Nudes and maybe you out there have some explanations for me.

I'm about to finish "Us". This is the first painting with the human figure that I've done without any preparatoty pencil drawing. From the start I worked with a brush. The result is very interesting: The whole painting process has followed the movement of the brush from day one, versus adapting to the lines of a preparatory drawing. The unity of design, style, and technique are easier to achieve, because a natural brush-stroke pattern continues throughout the days of work. Color appears more pure and saturated, because the technique forces the painting to go from its lightest layers to its darkest, one degree at a time. This allows pure color to remain as such on the white canvas. I'll be done soon and will add "Us" to Nudes.