Back to Winter !

As usual, we had a great time in Puerto Vallarta. We always stay at the Fiesta Americana, our favorite hotel. My wife, Jeanne, and I had vacationed there since the mid '80s. Oddly enough, Gloria also spent a lot of time in PV, she's a writer and photographer and used to do some promotion for Las Tules, a time-share condo right next door to the Fiesta Americana. There are a vast number of photo and sketching possibilities in this area. Below is a shot of a river near the hotel.




The beach near downtown PV. The arrow shows the location of the Fiesta Americana, about four miles away.


Everywhere you look there are great picture possibilities.






I took this shot from a bridge over the beach near the downtown area.

Heading South !

A few more cartoons

Another group of cartoons from my book ART THERAPY.













It's very interesting to experiment when adding color to drawings, here I even colored the line art creating an unusual effect. These were all done using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0

More Art Therapy

A few more cartoons from my book ART THERAPY. These were first drawn with Pentel Sign Pen and then scanned and colored on the computer using Photoshop Elements 2.0













Coloring cartoons and other line art on the computer is easy and also a joy. It's much faster than adding color using traditional mediums. You can do two or three versions for evaluation purposes, a real advantage.

Digital Dream Parodies 4

A few more examples of my parodies of the art world and famous artists. I had great fun doing this series of computer collages.


EARLY ATTEMPT AT GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION


ANTICIPATING A CALL FROM MAGRITTE


DRAWING DEVICE


BIRD IN SPACE


MONDRIAN SELF PORTRAIT

Digital parodies 3

More from my series of limited edition prints DIGITAL DREAMS. These images are collages created on the computer.


DER FUHRER AS ART CRITIC


POTATOES


MYSTERIOUS MONA


DRAWING AID


A RECENTLY FOUND MONDRIAN "ROCKEFELLER ROCK AND ROLL"


WINE, WOMEN ANG MAGRITTE

Digital parodies 2

Art school ads I'd like to see. I can't resist lampooning these old ads.


SHOES

I decided to paint my version of shoes.


MATISSE AND HARRY PAINT NUDES


DECHIRICO IN A METAPHYSICAL BACKGROUND


THE IRASIBLES (NEW YORK SCHOOL)


ART STYLES UNCOMFORTABLE WITH ONE ANOTHER