Penned and/or Airbrushed with Colored Acrylic or Black India Inks
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	"Castle & Raging River" Pen & India Ink 1994 14x17 private collection whereabouts unknown This piece was actually a study I devised for suggesting several different textures: dramatically flowing water, rocky banks, an ocean background, and clouds. I was pleased with everything except the clouds.		"Cliffs" Pen & India Ink 1994 14 x 17 private collection whereabouts unknown The major part of this piece - the cliffs on the left and the solitary tree above - were taking from some rocky bluffs near my home in east central Missouri. The cliffs on the right and the sea behind were added as a counterpoint. Unfortunately, I do not have a larger image and I do not remember who bought this piece or "Castles and Raging River"
	"Self Portrait" Airbrushed India Ink 1996 12 x 8 personal collection This is my first airbrush piece. I was thrilled by the outcome and intend to develop more and more pieces that use this unique and satisfying medium.		"Goshawk" Pen & India Ink 1997 14 x 17 Paulet Payne collection Airbrushed background, the feather texture and its shadow, and the stippled eye and beak were the point for this study. The sharp contrast between the goshawk and the background was not planned but seemed to work out alright.
	"Hocus Pocus" Pen & India Ink 1997 10 x 7 personal  collection After achieving a measure of control with pen & ink, I wanted to take the challenge of accurately depicting animal fur. I had been keeping a photograph, taken by Barbara, of our dog Hocus Pocus and had been planning to use it as a basis for a drawing. It turned out to be the perfect choice for pen & ink.		"Ejecta & The Effervescent Joy" Pen & India Ink 1997 20 x 26 Adam Hastings collection This is where mindless doodles become willful expansions. To me, abstractions and experimentals are the freest of expression and quite stimulating.
	"Awareness and Tension" Colored India Ink 1997 20 x 26 Matt Marxer collection Another example of a willful expansion using pen & colored inks. This image has been completely reinvented as "Dreaming Mask 4". Although the new piece is not yet finished, you can see it in the "Current Projects, ..." portfolio.		"Bald Eagle" Pen & India Ink 1998 13 x 15  Marty and Terry Maytas collection I wanted to mix three techniques for this picture: solid black above, below, in the eyes and in the nostrils, then contour lines for the feathers and shadows, and finally, stippling for the eyes and beak.
	"Jack Rabbit" Pen & India Ink Airbrushed Background 1998 - 7" x 10" personal collection At this point, I was quite excited with the results achieved with short contour strokes and stippling. I found a photograph that would engage both techniques to which I added an air-brushed background and then long foreground grasses with seed-heads as negative space. The latter also afforded me the opportunity to gain some experience in accurately terminating the pen strokes at the boundaries of the (negative space) foreground objects.		"Somonauk Church" Pen & India Ink 1998 14 x 17 Paulet Payne collection
	"The Morrison Home" Pen & India Ink 1998 12 x 18 John Morrison collection		"Outland Garrison" Penned and Airbrushed India Ink 2000 24 x 36 personal collection This imaginary piece was executed with india ink on claybord. The main design was framed with technical pen and filled with airbrush and sable brush and then detailed with an ink eraser and needles.
	"Maggie" Pen & India Ink 2000 14 x 17 JoAnn Henry collection This was a commissioned piece and an absolute pleasure to create. I had been wanting to pen a complex grassy background and found it with this piece. This was a unique challenge because the grass, leaves, and foxtails are, essentially, negative spaces.		"Pals" Pen & India Ink 2002 12 x 18 private collection whereabouts unknown
	"Ben, Lydia, Conan, Matt, & Barb"" Pen & India Ink 2005 20 x 26 personal collectioN I had always been terrified to try to draw people in pen and ink. In fact, I drew the entire background, their clothing, and hair before finally taking a deep breath and starting on their faces. I'm not so terrified anymore. I'm glad I did this piece.		"Untitled" Ball Point Pen 1973 30 x 23 personal collection This piece, done in ball-point pen, was done long ago when I was 22. When my grandmother saw it she asked me for it and displayed it under the glass of her coffee table in her front room.
	"Myopiscopic Syntax" Pen and Acrylic Ink 2007 - 11 x 13  personal collection		"Water Lillies" Pen & Acrylic Ink 2007 - 8" x 14" personal collection
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