cropping for gold

A collection of compositions “extracted” from larger works, cut out and ready to frame. You never know what you’ll find once you start “cropping for gold”. All of these are …

Abstractin’

I like to mine large works for hidden compositions. My favorite tool is my “crop box” (two peices of paper, each cut like an “L” that i manover over the …

MonaLisaDeathStar

MonaLisaDeathStar 04/05/2013 Materials: Gouache, wax pencil crayon thing, color pencil, on bristol 19″x 24″ I had this stupid song going through in my head that went “Mona Lisa Yeah Yeah …

scobot 45 No.3

Created: Feb 2012. Materials: Watercolors, Colour pencils, watercolor paper mounted on media board. Classified as a “45” because the dimensions of the paper reminded me of 45 record sleeves. size: 8.25″ x 8″ This is …

scobot5

Created: January 2012. Materials: gesso, India ink, Acrylic paint, Copic multiliner pens, ball-point pens, maybe a whole lot of other materials (who knows?!) on media board. size: 14″ x 18″ I kind of forgot I …

scobot 4

Created: October 2011. Materials: gesso, India ink, Acrylic paint, Cel-Vinyl, Copic multiliner pens, software: Alchemy, on media board. size: 15″ x 9.5″ I ended up designing a “doodle” in Alchemy and then projecting …

scobot early work 1

This is an early “experiment” Created: Sometime in 2011. Materials: gesso, India ink, Acrylic paint, oil pastels, colored pencil, this and that, on newspaper. size: 21″x22″ One day I thought, “Heck, who needs …

scobot primitive

Created: July 2011. Materials: gesso, India ink, Acrylic paint, (maybe some other stuff I forgot), on crappy brown craft paper. size: 29″x44″ Yes, well, the idea behind this was to enlarge my doodle, …

scobot1

Created: August 2011. Materials: gesso, India ink, cel-Vinyl, marker, ball point pen (Maxum 1.6) on Crescent illustration board. 15″x20″ This was the first “painting” that I kind of put it …

scobot3

Created: September 2011. Materials: gesso, India ink, colored pencil (white), marker, paint marker, ball point pen (Paper Mate 1.4) on Crescent illustration board. 15″x20″ Another attempt to mimic the “success” …

scobot2

Created: August 2011. Materials: gesso, India ink, colored pencil, marker, paint marker, ball point pen (Paper Mate 1.4) on Crescent illustration board. 15″x20″ Buoyed by my discovery of my new …