Illuminated Abstracts Pins and Buttons

Magical dancing ribbons intertwined in a cheerfully mesmerizing frolic of light and color. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

An enlightening performance of interconnecting thoughts; a dizzying array of connections and pathways in a mysterious ghostly dance of imagination and inspiration. From a photograph of a hand-painted vinyl record. Photography + Photoshop Painting, Image Blending, & Digital Effects

A festive scene of dancing light baubles is interrupted by a mischievous disheveled cat whose paws are clasped in anticipation of some stimulating buffoonery. This image was created from photographs of hand-painted vinyl records and Ponderosa Pine tree branches. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

Roiling bubbles engulfed in a turbulent sea of chaotic waves and eddies; a confusion of ideas in the mystifying stream of creativity. From a photograph of soap bubbles in a black tray. Photography + Photoshop Painting, Image Blending, & Digital Effects

The silhouette of a long-legged stick figure with boundless enthusiasm and flaming yellow hair dances with an excitedly barking stick puppet dog in the bright colorful light of a full moon dark night. From a photograph of cracks in the growth rings of a downed Ponderosa Pine tree in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico. Photography + Photoshop/On1/Topaz Digital Effects

Gentle vertical waving lines, gradually blending from deep teal and green to a dusty orange sunset hue. Look and look again… like paper stacked loosely on edge, the visible surface disappearing back behind each overlapping sheet, or, by a simple shift of focus, soft pillowing curves, bumped up against one another; shift focus again, and ultra-thin raised relief lines appear, casting deep sinuous shadows to the west. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Way out beyond forever, a fluidly seated figure drifts endlessly through the vastness of space, past yellow moons and countless stars, steering in no particular direction, floating with the streams of consciousness and liquid memories of time. From a photograph of the leftover dribbles and splatters after a canvas acrylic paint pour in a black plastic tub. Acrylic Paint Pour + Photoshop Digital Effects

Chaotic clouds of brilliant fire light the sky in an exhilarating whoosh of splendid swirliness. Photography + Photoshop/On1 Digital Effects

Impasto brush strokes frolic about on a bas-relief spiral swirl while the background ignites in a brilliant swoosh and dances a swizzling sizzle as it all goes up in flames. Pebeo Fantasy Prisme Painting + Photography + Photoshop/Topaz/onOne Digital Effects