Covered Bridges

This is the Mull Covered Bridge in Sandusky County south of Fremont. It is one of Ohio's Oldest.

Spain Creek Bridge is the oldest covered bridge you can drive over in Union County. It is small and cute on the way to the next covered bridge.

 The Pottersburg Bridge was moved to the end of the North Lewisburg bike path (which follows an abandon rail line). It doesn't go over a stream, just a grass valley. It also has electric lights.

 This Big Darby Creek Bridge is the first of the new covered bridges in Union County. It has had some time to weather, but still has the new construction features. Large stone steps lead down under the bridge.

The Mill Creek Bridge is Ohio's newest being finished November, 2010. It looks very new, but is on an old narrow township road near the Union Delaware County line. The bridge cost over $1 million. An outdoor summer theater  (Deep Woods Theatre) is held just up the road.

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This was a brochure for Club DEVO swag from 1981. Don't remember why it was sent to me. Notice that they don't like credit cards. (click on images to enlarge)

Crazy Mama's started almost 31 years ago

In December, 1979 Crazy Mama's opened as Columbus's defacto New-Wave nite club. It was a second floor bar on the southern edge of the south campus bar area. It was the first to show music videos on multiple monitors at a time before VHS cassettes. It hired DJ's like the fading disco club scene, but was opened to all of rock and roll, past and future. It was a small venue for bands, but members of local new-wave bands became the regular customers. As the above drink menu shows (a cut-out flier by Paul Volker), Crazy Mama's, run by Bruce Nutt and his brother Charlie, was focused on non-mainstream drinks. (click on pictures to enlarge and read.

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scanner and sample scan (click on pix to expand) of clothes hanger art by Linda Howard.

Guy Girl screen print

This is a silk screen print (serigraphy) from college. It shows a guy and a girl in different worlds. The guy is thinking and time sensitive. The girl is flirting and showing off her beauty, yet they don't connect. The guy is a drawing of a friend from Australia while the girl is actually a photo that my dad took in the early 1960's on a camera club model shoot. Screen printing is good for changing color from dark to light across a print used here.

Car in the City

This is an oil painting I did in High School which continues to be one of most popular art pieces. I did another (better) version of this my first year of college and sold it. The newer version showed a brick street and more realistic building in the background. I think there's something to be said for an oil painting with a touch of drama that people can relate to. People who do modern art have no reason to cry about not selling their works because art museums show what the old masters did to make popular works that sell.

Etching: Lost In The 80's

This is a photoetching that was greatly manipulated to look like it didn't start as a photograph. Just about everything I could think of was put into it. There's deep etch, there's tape across the photo, burnishing of the light areas, etc. The original image was of a window at the old Monkey's Retreat (SohoZat) where they were selling wild 80's clothes with a mannequin with a mask. The detail shows a lot of variety of treatments. The frozen look of the mannequin made me think of how the 1980's was a frozen decade for young people. Jobs were few and low pay, rent was going up, but people would just wear wilder and wilder clothes

Etching: Coffeeshop Money

This is an etching done on two copperplates. The girl is done on a separate copperplate then cut-out and pasted on the background using the press. Different colors are brought in for the lips and eyes. The netting of the hat is from real netting that was pressed into the asphaltum then the acid etches the image.

Ode to Warhol

this was a Warholish litho print done about the time Andy Warhol passed away. Lithography is done on either large stones or aluminum plates and drawn in reverse before printed on a press (thus, "old fashion vegetable soup" is backwards)

Surrealistic painting with Car

2 ft x 3 ft surrealistic painting featuring car with popcorn traveling down road and purple cubes falling from sky. not sure what it all means.

Nick Cave at Schoolkids Records

Barry Adamson (background left) and Nick Cave (foreground) photographed at Schoolkids Records in 1980's made into three-tone lithographic print 1ft x 2 ft. Actual autograph "Sir Nicholas Cave" printed on lower right.

SELF Portrait

This is a woodcut self-portrait back when I had a mustache and was into the artists of Vienna from 100 years ago. I remember this being influenced by Egon Shiele. The image was done live from a fun-house mirror made from Chrome Mylar. My woodcut tools were stolen shortly afterwards when I took a trip to St. Louis, so the image is kind of appropriate.

Remembering 9 11

This is a photo of the World Trade Center from a junk sculpture park in the Lower East Side of New York, back before gentrification. Click on picture for larger size

Skatalogical Lines

This 3 foot by 4 foot painting is named Skatalogical Lines. Haven't seen this in years, but I like the color depth and abstract designs in layers is something I hope to get back to in future paintings. The bottom print is a woodcut print done on the back of a drawing Board 2 feet by 3 feet.

Figurative Art

This popular print is a silkscreen on fine rice paper. The flash increased the florescence of the green ink, not normally experienced with this print . 2 feet by 3 feet This is an acrylic painting on clear plastic. It has actually held-up very well over two decades. You can look through the mirror behind the figures. 3 feet by 4 feet This is a false color manipulation of a painting from a slide.

Abstract Works

This is a flash picture of a print that is an abstraction of a futuristic couple. 2 feet by 3 feet "Nonchalant" this painting has been entered in and rejected from several shows. Each time I paint a stamp of "Refused" or "Rejected" and then add a few more shapes. Metal paint is used This print is both a silkscreen and a lithograph made on a huge stone. 2 feet by 3 feet