ADHESIVE MORTAR MIXED MEDIA WORKS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

   Delivery by the artist using his minivan recommended for locations in PA and neighboring states.  Or the buyer will pay for packing and shipping cost for other delivery methods.  PA residents pay 6 percent state sales tax. (The gallery "hostesses" are not included in the sale and have been outfitted by the artist.)

   All paintings are done on canvas unless otherwise noted.

    Introducing unique art surfaces based on the artist's pioneering use of "adhesive mortar" as an art medium.

Current Inventory

"Galaxie One"

 

Mixed Media on Canvas
48" x 80"

Click this link to experience the effects seen by
walking past one of my ground-breaking "Galaxie" paintings. 


"Spiral Galaxie"

44" x 66"
Mixed Media on Canvas

"Galaxie 4S2"




36" x 48"

Mixed Media on Canvas

 "Emerge One"

48" x 80"
Mixed Media on Canvas

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History of the painting 

     This another groundbreaking work.  It is the first large painting that I painted on canvas using adhesive mortar. Having done my first blending of multiple colors while the medium was wet in the painting "Ten", I liked the style and technics used and decided to go big.

"The Three Balls"

30" x 40" 
Mixed Media on Canvas

(IMPORTANT! This is the first known painting 
to use adhesive mortar as an art medium)

    

History of the painting 

     This groundbreaking work, "The Three Balls", was done in 1979 in Columbia, Maryland. The balls are done in oils against a silver acrylic background. The green layer is done with acrylic paint mixed into the adhesive mortar. It is the first painting that I painted on canvas using adhesive mortar. The artist showed the work at a solo show the next year at the opening of the Columbia Supreme Court athletic center and received a commission to do a copy of the painting in altered colors to match a client's living room color scheme.

 

"Goodbye Rainforest" 

12" x 16"  

Mixed Media on Canvas

(IMPORTANT! This is the first social/political painting using adhesive mortar)

History of the painting 

   This painting was both an experiment uses a very heavy application of adhesive mortar combined with a miniature cow from my model railroading supplies. It is not only a study in texture and line but is also a commentary on how by destroying the rain forests, we are creating an environmental disaster. The cow has nothing to eat.    I place this type of work in the category of  "Social-Political" art.

"Galaxie Three" 

       

                                             
                              12" x 16"                             Detail
                          Mixed Media on Canvas
                                                        
                                                              

History of the painting 

   Here the artist combined several colors with the adhesive mortar and other materials to produce a uniquely textured surface, again with great depth. The title could have been different since the surface can suggest a planet or a moon, but the painting was the first one done during the creation of several Galaxie works where I tried a different way of mixing the paints and media and did not use glitter. The paint was applied with a variety of brushes only instead of being blended with other tools.

"Ocean Blues"

24" x 48"

Acrylic and Adhesive Mortar on Canvas

History of the painting 

   This painting was created using the same technique as is used for the "New Light" smaller paintings.  This is the first larger-scale piece where the acrylic paint is randomly placed on a thick layer of adhesive mortar and "pounded" into the medium with a special brush. This method produces a rough surface with amazing detail and variations in paint combinations and tones.

"Mother and Child"  

40" x 30" 

 Mixed Media on Canvas

History of the painting 

   This was first done in the "New Planets" style, but then in 2015 I dripped acrylic paint on it in a random pattern and spray painted the entire work with metallic gold paint. The resulting imagery suggests a mother pushing a baby carriage.

"New Planets" Series

     I decided to experiment with adding other materials to the paintings and inventing surfaces that are unique. They suggest planets of celestial bodies that we will never be able to visit. The series of planetary surfaces are named for letters of our alphabet, and several have already been sold.

All "New Planets" paintings are currently priced at $1295 plus shipping. 

They can be hung in either portrait or landscape position. 

     I completed a redo of "Planet K" from 2003 and then re-titled it "Planet C".  C stands for the element, chromium.  The highly textured mixed-media work represents a new surface and also a possible planetary surface somewhere out there in the cosmos.

" Metallic Planet A"

                                         

        

30" x "40" 

Mixed Media on Canvas  

NOTE: Since I made this painting, NASA has released this photo of the surface of one of Jupiter's moons. The similarities are very interesting

"Planet L"

40" x 30" Mixed Media on Canvas

Using Adhesive Mortar as a Wash

                                          "Blue Heaven"

   

40" x 30"
 Acrylic and Adhesive Mortar 

Signed and dated on rear of canvas. 
Finished edges - ready to hang 

NOTE:  Similar in style to a Mark Rothko, but done with adhesive mortar washes to produce the unique textures. 

     I plan to do more works inspired by Rothko with my own mixed-media techniques. Commission works in this and similar styles can be done in other sizes and colors to match your display environment.

"Macho Man" 

62 1/4" x 49 1/4" 

Mixed Media on Canvas

Frame hand-built by the artist and

trimmed with a lattice board.

      In this large painting I did some of the painting using acrylics and the brown area using a thinned wash of adhesive mortar.  While it was wet, I sprinkled on toy coal from my model railroad supplies.  The idea behind the painting was to produce something rough and masculine to contrast with my earlier "prettier" paintings.