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Welcome to my site, which features my Bettie Page pencil drawings, a few color pencil drawings and some of my photography.

A little background on the Bettie Page drawings: they are executed on AMX board and done with 2H. F, HB, 3B and 5B pencils. The lingerie are all original designs. The lone pin-up that is not Bettie is of a model I found locally.

I'm always at work on a Bettie which take maybe an average of 100 hrs. to do. The originals are for sale at $1,000 and down.

The 56 travel photos represent a much larger body of over 3000 edited photos taken all over the world, mostly from 1998 to 2002. I've spent roughly half of the last 6 years shooting travel stock on 35 mm slides with the eventual goal of being given over to stock photo agencies.

The rest of the photos are from a body of work I did from 1982 to 1997 documenting urban night scenes, most in Minneapolis but also in other countries. The originals are prints made from 2 and a half by 2 and a quarter inch negatives and shot with a Pentax 6x7 with a 55mm lens. This is the same as a 28mm wide angle on a 35mm camera.

Finally there are several color pencil drawings I did in the late 90's.

This page updated July 2004

 

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