Barack Obama's use of Social Media to gain the presidency and his continuing use of it, especially Twitter (@BarackObama), as a way to reach his citizens, coupled with his strong legal experience made creating an Essence Portrait of him using the letters of the Ten Commandments for all the strokes is an appropriate, even elegant choice. Read Full Story

Everything was going well with the new Essence Portraits. I had created one of Andy Warhol, then Rembrandt, then van Gogh. Each of them inspired my art and “taught me much about portraiture from the walls of great museums and galleries. Like Warhol, and the self portraits of these artists, I focused in on the [...] Read Full Story

For those who celebrate Halloween—and those who don’t! Although Halloween has pagan Celtic origins, Apple O’Lantern uses the original letters of Psalm 17 for strokes to refer to spiritual concepts of Christian and Jewish faiths– as does its unique image.  Look closely at the image and you can see some of the Torah font alpha-numeric symbols [...] Read Full Story

Fall Tree Aleph is created of the original letters of Deuteronomy 6. These include the famous Shema, which all observant Jews, since the time of Moses (thus including John the Baptist, Jesus and the disciples) pray every morning and evening. Read Full Story

Presenting and introducing the first Essence of Social Media Portraits in playlet tweet style featuring Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher in Song of Songs (The Kutchers). Song of Songs is the Bible’s love song. While it has deep religious and spiritual meaning, on the surface it can be understood as romantic and even erotic [...] Read Full Story

Historically, where there is tolerance freedom will grow and prosper. Freedom does not create tolerance although free people can and do create and strengthen laws to promote tolerance. Read Full Story

Demi Moore's use of herself as a canvas inspires and even challenges me, as an artist to do likewise. Of course Essence Portraits work to reveal more than the features of the public persona because every stroke is a letter from a carefully selected Bible text in the original language and font. Read Full Story

This first basic Essence Portrait of Ashton Kutcher.  Plus, below are two other portraits based on the basic Essence Portrait. It can stand alone as a work, but it will also appear variously in my artwork dealing with Social Media. I think that Ashton Kutcher is one of the best users of Social Media, plus he [...] Read Full Story

This first basic Essence Portrait of Ashton Kutcher.  Plus, below are two other portraits based on the basic Essence Portrait. It can stand alone as a work, but it will also appear variously in my artwork dealing with Social Media. I think that Ashton Kutcher is one of the best users of Social Media, plus he [...] Read Full Story

This first basic Essence Portrait of Ashton Kutcher.  Plus, below are two other portraits based on the basic Essence Portrait. It can stand alone as a work, but it will also appear variously in my artwork dealing with Social Media. I think that Ashton Kutcher is one of the best users of Social Media, plus he [...] Read Full Story