One of the most enjoyable things about using my digital camera is that there’s a dandy little menu item called “trimming” that allows me to radically crop a photo as soon as I take it. Sometimes I just walk around looking for pictures that will yield wonderful textures in closeup view. Above: two sides of a feather and a withered leaf. Any one of them, in my opinion, could be a wall-sized painting. If only I had wall space.
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One of my favorite places on earth is Ghost Ranch, in northern New Mexico. To hear why, follow this link to my essay at West Virginia Public Radio:
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Mourning cloak butterfly superimposed on a wall in Charleston, WV.
One of my favorite back alleys in Charleston has this abstract “artwork” made of broken plaster and paint splotches. I took this picture of it on the same day, June 1, that I came across this mourning cloak butterfly while walking on the Sunrise Carriage Trail in Charleston. Later I noticed that the butterfly shape of the exposed bricks. It made for a fun Photoshop practice session.
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I am off to Portland, Oregon to visit some dear old friends. A couple of days ago, when I realized that I was a few hours ahead on my preparations, I took time to create a new artwork. This is a collage of shibori-dyed silk (dyed by Michael Davis) on matboard. It is held in place by fusible interfacing from the fabric store. The artwork is about a foot square and rests on a larger (18-in-square) panel of matboard, only part of which is visible here. 
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