I really enjoy seeing where my thoughts take me as I start with a basic idea, then I form it into smaller art pieces, then I like putting everything I got into creating a fine art piece that has no mistakes. All of my everyday life distractions seem to disappear the deeper and deeper I go into the art piece, to the point that the subject of the art piece is secondary to its overall perfection. This to me is a masterpiece!
Using drafting templates to create the overall outlines with a black pen, then filling in the outlines with colored pens. This piece is 20" x 30" and took over 1000 hours to create in the early 1990s. Once finished it was given to my parents as Christmas gift. 
When I was taking photos of the color masterpiece with my iPhone, I started playing around with the different edit settings that the iPhone offered and suddenly this amazing black and white image was presented. For years I enjoyed seeing this art piece hanging on the wall at my parents house but the colors are in such detail that the art piece to me seemed to be somewhat lost. To me this black and white version is mind blowing!
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One day I came across a very interesting plastic doily, which is a plastic ornamental mat that has a lace pattern. Since I love using drafting templates to create drawings of mandalas with, the doily became my next template challenge. Outlined in black pen, then areas filled in with black pen. The doily only provided the external line pattern, all other inner lines were all drawn without the use of templates using a very steady hand. Looking at the close up photo to the right, you can see how each inner pattern secondary lines are drawn to absolute perfection. This masterpiece is 30 1/2" x 3o 1/2" and took 700+ hours to create, named "The Kings Table Top," finished in April 1985 and given to my parents as a Christmas gift.
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​I was creating many black and white mandalas at the time and wanted to create a more color psychedelic piece and this is what I came up with. The colors over time unfortunately slightly faded, originally using Le Pens for the color. Luckily this art piece was kept away from being directly in the sun otherwise the colors would have totally faded. Named "Physical Graffiti," 22" x 22" using drafting templates to create the outer design, then filling in with color ink pens. Overall this piece took 400 hours to complete made October 1985.
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​This is the only photo I have of this beautiful art piece. My vision was to create a mandala where the color ink lines looked like strings. This art piece was faster to create and came out beautiful as each color line held its own slight difference which created the perfection I was seeking. I gave this art piece to my parents as a Christmas gift in 1984. 30" x 30" on white poster board. My parents framed the piece and it was hanging in their bed room for many years. Over time the colors started to fade as the Le Pens markers I used didn't last against the sunlight the room received every morning. Overall this art piece took 250 hours to create. Completed 11/1984.
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I purchased a Pink Floyd Meddle album brand new from the record store and when I opened it to the album center there was nothing but a blank white inner cover. So after listening to the album dozens of times I decided to make my own drawing of what the music sounded like to me. I came up with this cool space scene. But then I took this creation to the next extreme level. I centered the album within 10 poster boards and decided to create a massive space scene. Unfortunately I have only one photo that shows the connection of the album to the poster boards. Also unfortunately a house flood ruined all of the poster boards leaving me with just the album. Eventually I put clear shelf paper over the album ink drawing to preserve it. Completed in 1982.
This drawing shows how huge the Pink Floyd overall art piece was. It was 80% completed and then years later it was ruined by a house flood. 10 poster boards with album being the center piece.
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I list this piece as fine art since I was seeking absolute perfection with it. Using a template to make circles is somewhat easy, but to make sure the template does not slip by accident, and that the pen ink does not bleed into the paper or slip as well was the overall priority in this masterpiece. This piece is named "Sixty Seven Thousand And Sixty Eight," because I drew 67,068 circles to complete it. I made sure I counted every circle as I was creating it. Unfortunately these are the only two photos I have of the piece. The piece got ruined by a carless contractor that was reshingling my garage roof. The contractor removed all of the shingles from the roof not caring about checking the weather first, and never showed up to work the next day as a monsoon storm ruined a portion of my art pieces. I found out later that the contractor took my prepaid monies and invested it in heroin. Good times! Completed in April 1985. 22" x 22." Black ink on white poster board. 300 hours.