Fireworks Archive
A sheet of paper is stapled to a rigid board. A bonfire is started out in the woods. While the fire grows, gunpowder is spread across the paper, a design is created with water (and sometimes with water color), and time passes, allowing the water to absorb into the paper. The gunpowder is then ignited, the board is inverted over the bonfire, and the drawing is realized by the fires’ singeing and burning of the dry paper surface around the wet design. The drawing is then embellished with smoldering charcoal on site or is removed to the studio, where it is completed, usually using soft pastels.
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 Jazz Through Smoke • |
 Sunlight on Moonwater |
 Sudden Light on Rough Water • |
 Mist Over Mars • |
 Hotter Water Higher • |
 Saturation After a Color Storm • |
 Black Hole Sun (mounted on plywood) |
 The Moon Throwing More Daylight • |
 Nearing the End of a Long Dry |
 Blue Moon Over Mount Storm |
 Dawn in the Underbrush • |
 Warmer Weather • |
 Uneven Footing Along the River • |
 Red Rocks and River Trees |
 Landscape Eroded |
 An Eclipse Through an Old Wire Fence • |
 Evening in Farm Country |
 Lowland Sunspots • |
 Riverside |
 A Crooked Boat on A Crooked River • |
 Water with a Splash of Oil • |
 A Warm Evening • |
 A Dry Season • |
 Under A Sunburnt Sky • |
 Signs of an Early Autumn • |
 Spring River Rising • |
 Rain Over a Dry Land • |
 Landscapes and Fences • |
 Landscape with Yellow Sun • |
 Landscape Above and Below • |
 Ghostwood • |
 A Procession by Torchlight • |
 Caught in the Headlights • |
 Blue Dusk • |
 Sunset In A Mountain Pond • |
 Shadowshift At Woods Edge • |
 Ribbon Clouds Stretched Out Across the Sky • |
 Up On The Old Peach Orchard Pond • |
 Moon Shadow • |
 As Early Morning Mist Melts Away • |
 Summer in the Glen |
 An Early Spring Day |
 Old Man Winter Screaming At The Trees |
 Summer Grass At Sunset • |
 Sunlight & Shadow On Autumn Winds |
 Where Waters Meet Beneath The Moon • |
 New Growth |