When I came to this new art medium called digital, I brought with me all my training in and love for classical painting, French Impressionism and Asian art.  It is my hope that the traditional artist in me is incorporated somewhat seamlessly into this new medium in such a way that my work reads as fine art created using a digital medium.  All the rules of color, composition, eye-hand coordination and the need to delve into the deeper artists eye for inspiration are brought bear on each piece as they would be, or should be, in any fine art medium.

All of my digital work begins as one or more of my original digital photographs.  I draw on my traditional training in drawing, painting and photography to create the images using a wide variety of digital processes.  My digital work tends to fall into the following broad categories.

• Digital Photography — I utilize only the basic digital retouching tools to remove specks and make slight adjustments similar to those traditionally made in a darkroom.  Otherwise, the image is as it was viewed in my camera.
• Digital Collage — Multiple images are layered together at varying densities with a variety of filters, edits, hand applied brush strokes or other manipulations to create the desired effects.
• Digital Paintings — I turn one or more of my images into an Impressionist-like painting by using a tablet and pen tool and software program to go into the pixels of color and pull them around to create brush strokes. (This is not done with filters.)  Once I have “painted” the entire image, I create a duplicate layer which is desaturated and embossed to highlight the brushstrokes. 
• Photopainting — Using one or more filters to create painting effects with one of my original photographs.

All of my work is produced in limited editions, printed on acid-free paper with archival inks that have been tested to resist fading for up to 100 years.  I use acid-free mats and conservation glass or Plexiglas further protect my matted and framed pieces.