Art for Art’s Sake

About Me

I've been working on this site in an effort to display and my art. There is a large body of work to show and it includes different media, all original.

For the past 30 years I have been working in the printing industry as a graphic artist. Living with my wife and two children (both grown now).

In addition to the paintings, I've included some haiku and poetry. It's just another form of expression -- a kind of mental exercise for me.

Interested persons can make contact via e-mail at:
nebularhyp@comcast.net

1. 

   The Caress

   Original pencil sketch using filters in Photoshop

2. From Archilochus of Paros

   The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.

3. 

   One good one!

4. 

   Image created using Photoshop

5. Herne

   Herne chases the moon
   hooves barely touching the earth
   search the illusive

6. 

   Archilochus, image a combination of pencil and photoshop 

7. Archilochus of Paros

   Far from being a bunch of automatons, the ancient Greek hoplites knew when to quit the field of battle in an effort to save their bacon. If a battle went badly, the heavily armed hoplites could very quickly, find themselves at the mercy of some very relentless light-infantry in the form of the peltasts. These folks (peltasts, that is) could dog the hoplites who might be cut off from their formation, and bring them down with the lead shot sent singing from their slings. Slings were just part of a peltasts repertoire, they could nail a hoplite with javelins or even arrows. When the hoplites found themselves isolated from their main form of battlefield functionality, i.e. the phalanx, the weapons of the peltast were no longer just an annoyance, they became a very real threat.
   So, best way to cut-and-run (where have we heard that phrase before?), was to lighten the load — and your typical hoplite knew that he could get clear of about 20 lbs, just by tossing his shield. Sin-of-sins — unload the salad bowl and hightail it out of harms way, keep your hide in good shape to fight another day.
   Archilochus of Paros, being a fine upstanding mercenary, and an excellent poet into the bargain, decided to address this little issue in a poem. It probably explains why he was so successful in his chosen career (mercenary, that is). He seemed to take a practical approach to his work and he didn’t mince words about any of it. So without further ado:

   A perfect shield bedecks some Thracian now;
   I had no choice: I left it in the wood.
   Ah, well, I saved my skin, so let it go!
   A new one’s just as good.

8. "Chorus Leader:
   Don’t go any further. I know what you’re thinking, Lenny, and forget it!
   Lenny:
   I can’t forget it; the thought’s been put in my head.
   Chorus:
   Oh, cursed fate; certain thoughts are better left unthunk."

   -

   Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

   Woody Allen

9. 

   Athena, goddess of wisdom, sprung from the head of her father, Zeus. 

10. Athena Goddess of Wisdom

    This illustration was put together in Photoshop, using some images that were first rendered in traditional mediums. The face of Athena is actually taken from a sketch of my daughter, that was drawn when she was still a very young girl. I colorized the work and gave it a painterly feel with the use of filters. The helmet was from an acrylic painting and adapted to work in the new rendering. The symbolic owl appears in the background and that was created with the use of filters in Photoshop. All of the components were combined in layers to achieve the final rendering.