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How did my solar photographs come about?

I had this old camera-phone that had a solar feature. Every time you took a photo it was a surprise to see how the color would be thrown. I discovered that the more photos I took (of the SAME object) the more color it threw onto the photo with each subsequent re-photo taking.

In order to do that I had to first physically take a photo, secondly, place the solar feature photo on my computer again, third take yet another photo with the solar feature on my camera of the photo placed on...

How did my funny faces come about 

I walk for my health; I have been walking for years, but I find it boring so I try and have a purpose for my walks… and I’ve gone through a lot of purposes instituting nature into my art…. The faces I came up with was one of idea one of the first examples of my incorporating nature into my artwork.

Where I am, in Texas, there aren’t the nice smooth rocks like there are at the seashore or in rivers. I know people paint on those all of the time, sometimes faces,...

My first 100 stack of pattern designs started when I wanted to create something special for my son to do in his origami folding. The following year I started my Studio Art Degree Program at St. Edward's University and was told by my painting teacher that I could paint whatever I wanted. I was so used to the corporate world and non-creative coursework that it took me a minute to even think about what I would want to do. My assumption was, like every other paint class I'd been in that I "should" do a still life. I put together...

One of Many Original Techniques & Processes - Innovative and Experimental Mindset:

Similar to my rock painting which evolved into painting faces on canvas, those faces also appeared as subject matter to be painted on lampshades and then further developed into repeat pattern design...

There have been many such convolutions in my art exploration; here is another... I was teaching a class of very young grade-schoolers. I made up a project for them to fold and cut their simple construction paper to make symmetrical holes to create an interesting paper object, to which some added simple decoration via...