This is a digital drawing/painting, created using a tablet and the versatility of the digital medium. This illustrates the walk the narrator takes after the final vanishing of Kate.

A greyscale version was created earlier, and now it's color, for the final page of the book.
-From Entity

Kate as Pythia, looks beyond the turbulent city to a future of continuance beyond death. She wears a map of the heavens, yet only a human perception of it.

This illustration, drawn entirely in the digital medium, appears on page 34, but also as the cover of Entity.

Waking up in the Afterdeath, might be like this for a second or two, read my book Entity to find out.

The character Kate describes her experience, and it's not just an ocean or infinite plain of water. There's more.

The magazine shop/smoke shop is a standard fixture in Manhattan. To get the energy of New York City, you have to at least walk by one.

This shop corner, featured in my book, tells of a future where people wear "Headnets" to replace the handheld device, except for certain old folks who like myself are in denial.
-From Entity

Walking down or up Second Avenue around 6th Street is experiential. Late afternoon, streetlights and headlights come on, the light fades overall but heightens at points on the street.

This illustration painting, is about the anonymity and distracted bustle so common at this time of day and in this neighborhood.
-From Entity

Afternoon sunlight splashing buildings and birds (pigeons), the birds only light up for a second, like fireworks, firebirds.

I had to capture this instant in watercolor, plush blue late day sky against intense warm light creates deep space, contrast and depth.
-From Entity

Watercolor painting, illustrating a concept for post pandemic alienation, "Where are we?"

This illustration is also from my book, where the narrator encounters Kate on a park bench on the traffic island on Houston and Clinton.
-From Entity

Watercolor painting, illustrating a concept for pandemic quarentine, during our age of "Things delivered".

This illustration is about when the narrator encounters an image in a bookstore.
-From Entity

Natural medium, hand drawn and painted in watercolor, using photo montage from several images composited to make the original image reference.

Street musicians the narrator encounters on a walk through the east village.
-From Entity

Digital drawing/painting, emulating my watercolor painting, using the more versatile digital medium.

In this illustration, Kate makes a provocative appearance before the narrator, establishing her presence before actually meeting him later.
-From Entity

Digital drawing/painting, keeping my painting style, illustration for book in progress.

This is the main character, the one who comes back. She is first seen on the steps of the subway by the narrator.
-From Entity.

This is a digital drawing/painting, using a tablet pen-style variable line weight and gradient shading. I want to emulate my watercolor painting, using the more versatile digital medium.

A color version is under consideration, as this illustration is intended for a novel I am working on. The story takes place in New York City in the future and is about an encounter with someone who has died and comes back (sporadically) to report on the afterlife.

Apprehension is akin to hope, looking toward the sun might be looking toward the future. She also might be looking for a cab.

The person in the background is biking her dog. This bustle on the street is a metabolic fluxuation of the city.

Looking out my window in the early morning, I saw the light on this scene and it sparked an inspiration, that luckily turned into a painting.

Intense morning light at the start of a day, revealing everything in anticipation of visual or actual adventure.

I love colored pencil. It was my medium of choice when I began my career as an illustrator. There are limitations, everything is limited to the stroke, shading can be messy and arbitrary if not consistent, unless that’s what you are going for, and I’m not.

Here is a portrait of a happy decorated person holding a purse full of dreams.

I took a sheet of cardboard, gessoed it and painted a "looking up from the sidewalk" scene, corrugations visible.

This was done early on as a sketch for my "The City Scene from the Sidewalk" book project.

The watercolor landscape is one of the most compelling forms of art, in my opinion. The most enigmatic ones, if I may be even more opinionated, are the ones from imagination.

This one features an expanse of untouched or ventured upon snow, where you can let your eyes venture about without snowshoes.

This portrait is from a very early sketchbook, probably from the 1980’s. She is from some remote and exotic segment of my mind, drawn from imagination, and I would like to pull from that region again if only I could find it.

If there were ever such a thing, I wonder what would actually happen, if pushed. What would become of the self, that which is becoming more aware with every tick of living and learning moment to moment. Would it be the end, or would we finally get the answer and kick back and relax.

Thought doodles like this, occur randomly.

A colored pencil drawing of two personalities that might never be portrayed in such a fashion. As if they are sisters, but so unalike on so many levels. Perhaps they would only ever be together like this because the artist, myself, is inspired to put them there.

Perhaps they are more similar than one might think. One of those unlikely pairings we see all the time in life.

I have a technique or style I have developed lately, that starts out with swatches of color laid down in sequence, then each is studied and I paint the scene I think is living there. They may be related to each other on the page, or not.

This is an intuitive form of self expression, and instead of drawing whatever comes out of my head, it comes out of the initial splash of color, which also came from my head.

A portrait in pencil, from imagination, expressing a lot of different feelings, I do these for the release of feeling rather than the capture.

Ultimately the feeling is captured, but it’s not the same for everyone, so it’s a springboard. You can feel what comes up.

More sequential image swatches. They might make a story, I would like to write stories about each, or one story that is illustrated by all of them on a page.

I never know if people in general need the words or if the image is enough. So far I seem to be doing both.

The doodle-bird, is mostly found in my sketchbooks and in the stack of papers on the right corner of my desk.

They seem to develop randomly, during bouts of painting and imagining. Exact origins are unknown at this time.

Astral Madonna, is a drawing I did back in the late 1980's. Referencing a photo I took of a statue, I wanted to transform the original beauty.

Colored pencil is the medium, over paper treated with a light coating of petroleum jelly. Also pastel applied with a cloth.