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"Sonata" 

36" x 36" (oil, acrylic, plaster compound, and fire) 12/2025 

-homage to Ludwig van Beethoven whose symphonies have accompanied me during many recent weeks of painting these abstracts and whose life inspired the poem "The First Jazz Musician" (located in "Contents, 1970s")

"Blue Throat Chakra" 

16" x 40" (oil, acrylic, plaster compound, and fire) 12/17/25 

"Elephants" 

53x47 (acrylic, drywall compound, holes, & fire; December, 2025)

started this piece approximately 15 yrs ago in Florida (for a literary mag published in Bangalore, India), considering/transitioning colors with the holes made in the canvas formed by misfirings, until this reincarnation, albeit many yrs later here in Tucson 

"Phantasmagoria in Blue" 

36" x 36" (oil, acrylic, plaster compound, and fire) 12/17/25 

"Courvoisier" 

16x40; acrylic, drywall compound & fire (December, 2025) 

"Carnaval" 

12x48 (acrylic, drywall compound & fire; November, 2025) 

"YardBird Sweet" 

30x48 (acrylic, drywall compound & fire; October, 2025) 

"FiftySecond St Bop" 

12x48 (acrylic, oil, plaster compound, gesso, & fire; November, 2025) 

"Ruby My Dear" 

18x24 (acrylic, oil, drywall compound & fire; October, 2025) 

"Milestones"

(18 x 24) Acrylic, Drywall Compound & Fire; September, 2025 

"Warm Fire"

(16x 40) Acrylic, Drywall Compound & Fire) September, 2025 

"Epistrophe"

(18 x 24) Acrylic, Drywall Compound & Fire) September, 2025 

"Green Fire"

(16x 40) Acrylic, Plaster & Fire) September, 2025 

"Now's The Time"

(40 x 37 Acrylic, Plaster & Fire) August, 2025 

"Bahia" (unframed/framed)

(50 x 45 Acrylic, Plaster & Fire) July, 2025 

"Integration" 

(24 x 30, Acrylic & Fire) May, 2025 

"Tropicalismo"

(40 x 30 Acrylic & Fire) May, 2025 

"Northern Lights"

(48 x 30 Acrylic & Fire) April, 2025)

"The Audacity of Color"

(40 x 30 Acrylic & Fire) Spring, 2024 

"Fire Painting for MayDay"

(36 x 36 Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Spring, 2024

"Einstein in Dichodomy"

(44 x 35 Acrylic, Mixed Media, & Fire) Fall, 2015

"Blues on Blonds"

(36 x 36 Acrylic, Fire) Spring, 2024

"Kid in a ToyStore"

(51 x 46 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 2018

"Mandala"

(40 x  38 Oil, Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Fall, 2014

"Elephant"

(53 x 47 Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Fall, 2010

"Spring Fire Painting #1"

(24 x 18 Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Spring, 2023

"Spring Fire Painting #3"

(24 x 18 Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Spring, 2023

"Abracadabra"

Fall, 2013

"Well You Needn't" 

(72 x 48 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 1989

  "Ocean of Winter" 

(96 x 46 Oil, Plaster & Fire) Fall, 1988

 "Easy Being Green"

(72 x 48 Acrylic & Fire) Spring, 1992

"Burnt Hair"

(24 x 20 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 1991

 "Horizontal Fire Painting #1" 

(21 x 9 Oil & Fire) Fall, 1975

(framed under glass)

"Matador" 

(matted and framed)

(24 x 20 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 1991

"Mangroves"

(48 x 32 Acrylic & Fire) Summer, 2018