MONTAGE LANDSCAPES
Back in the old days of film photography without panoramic digital cameras, if I wanted to take an image of something really large, I would shoot multiple pictures and tape them together in my albums. This came to me again when I was in India and took a series of pictures of an open landscape. This was the first in this series. In this painting, from 1991, the arrangement was inspired by lunar photographs, which did much the same thing.
Later, I learned to paint on paper and began to arrange these 'cards' as though they were photographs. This led to other ideas, such as puzzled landscapes, puzzles missing pieces, and, in a bit of a stretch, painting positive and negative images. I ended this series around 2004.
But I later picked it up again when I decided to paint a trompe l'oeil of taped photographs. This series started with2014's Perspectives. Since then, I've painted one every couple of years.
Later, I learned to paint on paper and began to arrange these 'cards' as though they were photographs. This led to other ideas, such as puzzled landscapes, puzzles missing pieces, and, in a bit of a stretch, painting positive and negative images. I ended this series around 2004.
But I later picked it up again when I decided to paint a trompe l'oeil of taped photographs. This series started with2014's Perspectives. Since then, I've painted one every couple of years.
Santa Elena Montage, Oil on Canvas, 22x60, 2022
Waterfall, Oil on Canvas, 30x60, 2019
Seminole Canyon Montage, Oil on Canvas, 30x60, 2019
Sunset Montage, Oil on Canvas, 42x60, 2016
Perspectives, Oil on Canvas, 36x72, 2014
The tape and shadowing have a striking three-dimensional effect in this six-foot painting. The landscape is based on photographs I shot in West Houston over 20 years ago - an area of town that has changed significantly. I painted the same landscape as seen today in the billboard to the right of center, using a photo shot with a smartphone in panoramic mode, emphasizing the technological change along with the physical change.
Beneficiaries, Acrylic and Oil on Paper, 40x48, 1999
A tribute to the men of the twentieth century who fought and sacrificed to preserve freedom and destroy tyranny. These images are based upon photographs from World War Two, some of which have been manipulated so that all the fighting men move to the right and wounded to the left. The arrangement leads the eye from the lower left of the piece to the upper right, where a contemporary mother and child play peacefully in a field of flowers, beneficiaries of a precious gift.
Four Seasons, oil on paper, 21x25, 2002
Positive Negative I, oil on paper, 15x25, 2002
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Positive Negative II, oil on paper, 17x21, 2002
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Missing Piece, oil on paper, 11x14, 2002
Landscape, Oil on Paper, 2004
Sunset Clouds I, Oil on Paper, 15x30, 2001
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Sunset Clouds II, Oil on Paper, 17x28, 2001
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Sunset Clouds IV, Oil on Paper, 17x22, 2001
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Sunset Clouds III, Oil on Paper, 15x28, 2001
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Sunset Clouds with Lake, Oil on Paper, 16x21, 2001
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Clouds and Road V, Oil on Paper, 16x21, 2000
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Clouds and Road VII, Oil on Paper, 16x18, 2001
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Clouds and Road VI, Oil on Paper, 16x21, 2000
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Clouds and Road VIII, Oil on Paper, 16x21, 2001
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Clouds and Road IX, Oil on Paper, 16x26, 2001
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Clouds and Road X, Oil on Paper, 16x25, 2001
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Clouds and Road XI, Oil on Paper, 17x25, 2001
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Clouds and Road XII, Oil on Paper, 17x27, 2001
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Clouds and Road XIII, Oil on Paper, 17x31, 2001
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Clouds and Road XIV, Oil on Paper, 17x24, 2001
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Clouds and Road XVI, Oil on Paper, 17x29, 2001
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Clouds and Road XV, Oil on Paper, 17x22, 2001
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Clouds and Road XVII, OIl on Paper, 17x21, 2001
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Clouds and Road XVIII, Oil on Paper, 17x21, 2001
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Clouds Over Field, Oil on Paper, 17x24, 2001
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Clouds with Yellow Flowers, Oil on Paper, 15x29, 2001
Puzzled Landscape I, Oil on Paper, 18x18, 2001
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Electric Landscape, Oil on Paper, 22x18, 2001
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Puzzled Landscape II, Oil on Paper, 18x18, 2001
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Puzzled Landscape III, Oil on Paper, 24x24, 2001
Memories of a Beach, Oil on Paper, 28x24, 2000
Hayrolls, Oil on Paper, 15x20, 1999
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Oasis, Oil on Paper, 15x22, 1999
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Field with Cow, Oil on Paper, 17x22, 1999
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Multnomah Falls, Oil on Paper, 26x16, 1999
Snoqualmie Falls, Oil on Paper, 17x22, 1999
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Railroad, Oil on Paper, 17x24, 1999
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Puget Sound, Oil on Paper, 16x18, 1999
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Fuji Montage, Oil on Paper, 16x21, 1998
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Pacific Montage, Oil on Paper, 14x22, 1998
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Katy Cloud Montage 1, Oil on Paper, 17x24, 1998
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Katy Cloud Montage 2, OIl on Paper, 16x21, 1998
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Katy Cloud Montage, 3, Oil on Paper, 15x22, 1998
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Fuji Montage, Oil on Canvas, 18x36, 1993
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Pacific Montage, Oil on Canvas, 18x36, 1994
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Indian Landscape, Oil on Canvas, 12x36, 1991