Poised and ready to explode into flight, the runner is a spring wound tight, latent energy ready to be released. As with the other athletes of this series, the runner is captured at the moment just prior to the release and victory his training has prepared him for.

The electric pink and purple of the Javelin bring a vibrant sense of open space to this piece. The athlete's arm is cocked back, ready to release the spear into the heavens. The pale body, powerfully modeled, is like a marble statue come to life.

The runner is coiled like a spring, in the split second before the latent energy is released, and he sprints up and away. The heavily muscled and deeply veined body is rendered in a rich, deep, metallic moss green and bright pink highlights that provide an electric contrast that enhances the sense of energy in the form. This a a body of force, power, and speed, but also elegance and precision.

This is the first in the series of paintings utilizing colored lights to model the form of the figure, and capturing the amazing range and subtly of the colors that play across the body. At first this appears to be a highly abstracted form, but on closer look, it is photo-realistic, made to look surreal by the unusual way the lights and shadows intermingle.

The precursor to the experiments and play with colored lights—this series of red and green paintings begins the use of cast background color to influence the colors of the figurative form. Here begins the divorce of the form from purely literal depiction, to one wherein the form is subordinate to the pictorial elements of color, value, line and shape.

Ah, there is no denying that this man has a rack that could attract the most eligible bachelor-ette. Here there is pure, raw, energy and sexual supremacy. “Submit to me, I can protect you”, is the message projected in the “rear double-bi(cep)” pose utilized by competitive body builders.

The red and green background project a playful patchwork of many shades of red and green on the sensually curved, casually weight shifted jester of this painting. His pose is sexually self-assured and casual, relaxed, and also very self conscious as any performer must be.