Nighttime

Prince Edward County in Ontario. I shot this in broad daylight and played a lot in Photoshop.

Pensive Face

For this face I made a monoprint and scanned it. I generated the colour by layering photographs and painting until I came up with a pleasing abstraction. Then I mixed the scan with the colour. It is all part of my quest to infuse my images with more energy and life.

Ship Ladder

One cold winter's day I was photographing beat up old ships in a Hamilton, Ontario harbour. I was fascinated with the textures of the peeling painting and the strong lines of the ladder. After a dose of Photoshop, the image felt more like a painting.

Violin

This in one of the first of what I call my 'smear' experiments. I drew the violin very quickly with printer's ink on glass. Then I made a monoprint. I scanned that into Photoshop and added the colour.

Tea Time for Pegasus

Sometimes I remember that the ordinary is full of magic.

Troubled Face

This one started as a pastel and then changed dramatically in Photoshop. I like how the mood changes as the visual elements change. I keep digging with visual picks and shovels until a piece of truth emerges. The trick, of course, is knowing when to stop.

Roadtrip

I am amazed by how much time I spend looking at highways, cars, signs, maps and the dashboard when doing a roadtrip. Where does all that seeing go? I used the quilt pattern, Log Cabin, to organize the images.

Abandoned House

Every image maker gets to do one old-abandoned-house-with-ominous-sky image. Just one.

Weep

I wanted to see how much I could flatten out the tones of an image and yet still express emotion.

Cafe Colours

I've always thought that empty cafe seats look like theatre sets. This one was along Bloor St. in Toronto.

In-Animate

No, really.

Blue Glasses

Started as a pastel and evolved in Photoshop.

At the Beach

. . . and the living is easy

Face Spiral

This one began with a photo in Photoshop; then I discovered the pleasures of making spirals with the Transform tools.

Summer Grass

First Violinist

Sketched in pen at the Toronto symphony; scanned into Photoshop where the colour and tones were added.