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    • Libyan Sibyl
    • Alice in Wonderland
    • Fat Head
    • Linda Carter Wonder Woman
    • Judy Garland
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    • Shirley Temple
    • Cleopatra
    • Marilyn 2
    • John Singer Sargent and the Goblet of Fire
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    • La Gioconda da Zinzinnati
    • The Wedding Portrait
    • Help Me Carrie Fisher
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    • Carrie Fisher Too
    • Granger
    • Harmony in Red and Green
    • Girl with the Harry Potter Earring
    • Girl with the Pearl Earring #3
    • Dianne and her Jet
    • The Next Supper
    • Portrait of a Young Woman
    • Choice
    • My Artist's Studio
    • Frazetta
    • La Grande Baigneuse
    • Sandalio
    • Bette Davis Eyes
    • Marilyn Monroe
    • The Girl with the Red Hat
    • The Floor Scrapers
    • Hands
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    • The Bath
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    • Not Bullets, Butterflies
    • Cat Woman
    • Synthetic Sarah
    • Maria Callas
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    • Arya Stark
    • Sunny
    • The Black Rider
    • Chase
    • Pumpkin Pie
    • Purple Crush
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    • Fat Baby I
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    • Green Shape Abstraction
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    • Stars
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    • Sarah and the Coat
  • Paintings 2
    • Coffee Pot
    • The Art Room
    • Sienna
    • The Rook
    • Inside Looking Out
    • The Chessmatch
    • Chessplayers #1
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    • Chessplayers #3
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    • Cantina Del Rio
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    • Alone
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    • Fingers
    • Amy
    • Art Exhibit
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    • Isolation
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    • Mr. Blue Shoes
    • Office
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    • Fight
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    • Violinist
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    • Smoker #3
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    • Heaven and Earth
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    • In Your Garden
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    • Blue Girl
    • Walking Giant
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    • Cracked Ice
    • Watchmaker
    • Cat and Mouse
    • Coffee
    • Reality of Evolution
    • Church On Tulane
    • Fireworks on Lake Michigan
    • Tie
    • Angie
    • Blender
    • Mother and Child #1
    • Mother and Child #2
    • Christina
    • Autumn
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    • White Chair
    • Silas
    • Crash
    • Wheels
    • Traci
    • Builders
    • My Dream with Miwa
    • New Orleans Street
    • Shadow Faces
    • Jack Harvey
    • Wiley
    • The Jungle
    • Piano Player #3
    • Purple Sleeve
    • Study in Sienna
    • Cloud Face
    • Jesus of the Fishes
    • The Crowd
    • Primary Face
    • Primary Face #2
    • Bar
    • Transfiguration
    • Selfie #1
    • Selfie #2
    • Stolen Couple
    • Stolen Time
    • The Sea #2
    • The Sea #3
    • Wispy Couple
    • Leaves
    • Butterfly Face
    • Smoke Painting #1
    • Smoke Painting #2
    • Meditation and Transfiguration
    • The Moore House
    • Falling Man #2
    • Nightmare
    • Guilt and Lamentation
    • Lady
    • Introspection
    • Anxiety
    • Misery #2
    • Janet
  • Drawings
    • The Nut Gatherers
    • Meret Oppenheim
    • Rogier van Der Weyd
    • Medee
    • Ophelia
    • Ariandne
    • Bacchus
    • Burgher
    • Amor y Psiquis
    • Picasso Drawing
    • Sonja Knips
    • Arm of Moses
    • Retiro Park
    • Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
    • GoldFish
    • Madonna of the Meadow
    • Japanese Lanterns
    • Miwa
    • Twist Kitty
    • Girl Playing Astragal
    • Rolling Papers
    • Lottery
    • Ruby
    • Bildnis Einer Frau
    • Hellenistic King
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    • Jean Fouquet
    • Woman Drying Her Foot
    • Green Captain Marvel
    • Critical Mass
    • Betsy Queen of Hearts
    • Pastel Horse
    • Amy
    • Aubrey
    • Stephanie
    • Van Brown
    • Big Child
    • Chance Drawing #1
    • Chance Drawing #2
    • Dynamic Nude
    • Figure on Orange
    • Kneeling Nude
    • London Christmas
    • London Sketch
    • Recling Nude
    • Smoker Sketch
    • The Fall
  • Drawings and Prints
    • Bruce Lee
    • Sonja Knips
    • Chess Death Sketch
    • Chess Sketch
    • Dance Sketch
    • Christina and her Cross
    • Projected Lady
    • Butterfly Face Transfer
    • Clay Baby #1
    • Clay Baby #4
    • Cosmic Girl
    • Dancers Sketch
    • Lisa
    • Daniel
    • Eyeore
    • Tigger
    • Chair 1Jan95
    • Chair 2Jan95
    • Chair 5Jan95
    • Chair 6Jan95
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    • Chair 2Feb95
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    • Chair 13Feb95
    • Chair 21Feb95
    • Chair 2Mar95
    • Chair 5Mar95
    • Chair 6Mar95
    • Chair 7Mar95
    • Figure Sketch on Grey
    • Foot Sketch #1
    • Foot Sketch #2
    • Giant Sketch
    • Gloom Print
    • Greg and the Moon
    • Hand and Cup
    • Hand of David
    • Jenny and the Jungle
    • John Glenn
    • Lightning Strikes
    • Lion Transfer
    • Little Face
    • Lost It
    • Moon and Sun
    • Red Sketch
    • Scream Print
    • Sky FaceWood Block Print
    • Small Girl Sketch
    • Smile
    • The Falling
    • Thorin Undone
    • Twisting Figure
    • Wood Block Figure
  • Sculpture
    • Sassy Pitcher
    • Harry Potter
    • Gandalf, Fallen
    • Dragon Fly
    • My Accountant
    • Mark Twain
    • Infinity Pot
    • Severus Snape
    • Hermione Pot Fired
    • Incense Rocket
    • The Troubles of My Heart
    • Large Hand
    • Head
    • AppleBoard
    • Lisa
    • Raku Figure
    • Sun Spring
    • Piggy Bank
    • Striped Pot
    • Clara Bow
    • Clara Bow with Sidelights
    • Split X
    • Green Elephant Pot
    • Singularity
    • Soap Dish "Fingers"
    • Dartboard
    • Akhenaten
    • Baby Elephant
    • Brown Speckle Pot
    • Old Empty Boxes
    • Old Empty Boxes' Synthetic Friend
    • Lady Pot
    • Clay Painting I
    • Clay Painting #2
    • Clay Painting #3
    • Pablo and Frida
    • Fractal Devon
    • Accordian Girl
    • Cylinder Girl
    • Popeye
    • Red Figure
    • Big Hand
    • Acrobats
    • Baby Guillotine
    • Banana Bong
    • Brains
    • Broom
    • College Plaster Universe
    • Cone Box
    • Dug Pot
    • Eiffel Tower
    • High School Relief
    • James P. Sullivan
    • Little Head
    • Orange Body
    • Mad Dog
    • Mardi Gras Beads
    • Fractal Mirror
    • Mouth Pot
    • Narasimha
    • Ocean Test Tile
    • Jesus in a Box
    • Orange GiantClay
    • Organic Green
    • Organic Red
    • Rose Chair with Jenny
    • Sarah Undone
    • Soap Dish "Whoppers"
    • Old Plaster Head
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Gandalf, Fallen

When I went back to Art School I was already showing and selling paintings in small galleries and other public venues. I really did not feel the need nor desire to have anyone commenting or instructing me on what or how to paint, so I decided to study ceramic sculpture and explore the three dimensional aspects of my creativity.

I was very surprised to find that a hierarchy existed within the school whereas certain mediums were given precedence over others. The art school caste system consisted of these following layers (in order of silently agreed upon importance): Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Photography and Printmaking probably tied, ceramics, and then the lowly fiber arts. I always considered art to be art, whether scribbled in someone's sketchbook or tattooed an someone's ass. I like the more permanent mediums myself but I suppose that relates to far more philosophical underpinnings within myself rather than aesthetic reasons.

But I was more surprised by the art school edict that art could not be functional. The media hierarchy made more sense when viewed through this prism. I could see how one's idea of functionality could force ceramics and fibers to the bottom of the caste. But art does serve a function. If a person hangs a painting in a particular place it is always for a very specific reason, to beautify a certain room or provoke thought and or invoke memory or emotion. There is no such thing as a non functional art work or anything else for that matter.

As for ceramics, professors might say that if you use a bowl for eating it as transferred into functionality and out of art. What about a pretty Chinese rice bowl? Is it art? How about if it is a pretty Chinese rice bowl that is thirteen hundred years old and now sits on a shelf in a museum to be viewed by thousands of viewers each year; art? How about a cereal bowl you watched your father eat breakfast out of for the majority of your life which you now keep in a special spot of your cupboard and think about your father and his love when you fill it with Lucky Charms occasionally? Is this common clay bowl an object art? My Gandalf pot is more vase than pot. And even though I never put anything in it I could easily put flowers within it. Does this nullify its existence as an object of art? What if I told you that this image of Gandalf, relating to his fall into the flames of Moria and subsequent arising, represents the ideas of rebirth, reincarnation, resurrection, and reinvention and evolution which are so very important to me in my life?

I need to get a flower to put in his head.

Clay and Glaze with Dot Method

Gandalf, Fallen

When I went back to Art School I was already showing and selling paintings in small galleries and other public venues. I really did not feel the need nor desire to have anyone commenting or instructing me on what or how to paint, so I decided to study ceramic sculpture and explore the three dimensional aspects of my creativity.

I was very surprised to find that a hierarchy existed within the school whereas certain mediums were given precedence over others. The art school caste system consisted of these following layers (in order of silently agreed upon importance): Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Photography and Printmaking probably tied, ceramics, and then the lowly fiber arts. I always considered art to be art, whether scribbled in someone's sketchbook or tattooed an someone's ass. I like the more permanent mediums myself but I suppose that relates to far more philosophical underpinnings within myself rather than aesthetic reasons.

But I was more surprised by the art school edict that art could not be functional. The media hierarchy made more sense when viewed through this prism. I could see how one's idea of functionality could force ceramics and fibers to the bottom of the caste. But art does serve a function. If a person hangs a painting in a particular place it is always for a very specific reason, to beautify a certain room or provoke thought and or invoke memory or emotion. There is no such thing as a non functional art work or anything else for that matter.

As for ceramics, professors might say that if you use a bowl for eating it as transferred into functionality and out of art. What about a pretty Chinese rice bowl? Is it art? How about if it is a pretty Chinese rice bowl that is thirteen hundred years old and now sits on a shelf in a museum to be viewed by thousands of viewers each year; art? How about a cereal bowl you watched your father eat breakfast out of for the majority of your life which you now keep in a special spot of your cupboard and think about your father and his love when you fill it with Lucky Charms occasionally? Is this common clay bowl an object art? My Gandalf pot is more vase than pot. And even though I never put anything in it I could easily put flowers within it. Does this nullify its existence as an object of art? What if I told you that this image of Gandalf, relating to his fall into the flames of Moria and subsequent arising, represents the ideas of rebirth, reincarnation, resurrection, and reinvention and evolution which are so very important to me in my life?

I need to get a flower to put in his head.

Clay and Glaze with Dot Method

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