Nature Mapping

 One thing always leads to another.

While walking to my studio this month, I began

seeing the ice crystals in the pavement and the driveway.

Then I started noticing the interesting shapes and colors

inside of snow banks. Then I started taking pictures.

I made 8.5 by 11 prints of the photos 

and noticed that they resembled maps which fit

quite nicely into the map making series I've been working on.

I thought I would use them for ideas for map paintings.

But after I had a stack of the prints I began to wonder

what else I could do with this ever growing collection.

So I decided to paint on the printed photo paper

to see if I could enhance the image. The above 

is the painted image; below is the original.

 Pavement And Corner Of Driveway

 "Shores Of Promise"

 More Pavement

 "Weather Map In Oz"

Snowbank


I used alcohol inks and fluid acrylics to paint
the printed photos. Before I began, I sprayed
the print with a matte acrylic finish to keep the inks
from the print from bleeding into the paint.