Charlie Chan Meets Georgia O'Keefe

Magazine clippings and scraps get pasted on sketchbook covers to put a face on all the black books and to provide inspiration. Is Charlie looking at Georgia's painting for possible murder clues?

Dialogue in Red, Yellow

Spontaneous paper collage that arranged itself, speaking in color and shape when there are no words, a letter to Vincent Van Gogh.

The following is an excerpt of Van Gogh's letter to his youngest sister, Willimien, written from the south of France.


"Here I need no Japanese woodblock prints, because I am here in Japan. This is why I only have to open my eyes and paint the impressions that I receive.

Ici, je n'ai pas besoin d'estampes japonaises, car je me dis toujours que suis ici au Japon. Et c'est pourquoi je n'ai qu'a garder les yeux grand ouverts et peindre les impessions que je recois."

Today, he would be given medication but there would be no paintings of blazing color and fire.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

For my Cinderella moment I would like to feel like Audrey Hepburn in that dress and gloves from Breakfast at Tiffany's. The operative word is "feel". There is only one Audrey and no one could duplicate that inner glow. Acrylic on paper then cut into shapes.

Mother and child collage from magazine scraps.

Blue Canyon

Blue Canyon is between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe, above snow line at 5,200 feet, a place difficult to live in during the cold season. Magazine collage interpretation of sky, hills and canyons.