The frame is made of wood and is 3 inches thick...spray-painted white.

The limbs were picked-up from the ground at Mounds State Park in Anderson, Indiana.
The limbs were also spray-painted white.

After the limbs were painted, I sprayed them with a light touch of 3M spray adhesive. While the limbs were wet with the adhesive, I sprinkled multi-colored translucent plastic chips onto them. I obtained the chips from a local craft store.

I made a one inch white matte from bright white matt board and placed it inside the frame.

The bird nest and eggs were purchased at a local craft store and were sprayed with the same white paint.

The background consists of a 3/8 inch white foam core sheet cut to the appropriate size.

Below the "eggs" is a ground level area consisting of white spun glass thread.

The artwork is lit by halogen lighting from the ceiling.

This piece is 1/1 and is valued at $2.2 million dollars.

You can view the artwork in the background of this family xmas photograph.

This image represents my first and only real painting. It was created with with acrylic paints. The canvas size is 24x34.

I can't draw a straight line, so for this project I took two different 35mm slides, (one of each of us) and projected each picture onto the canvas utilizing a 35mm slide projector. I painted the background first. Then...I traced each image ( Mike image/Sharon image) onto the canvas, then "painted and worked" the acrylics onto the canvas...

This painting is 1/1 and is valued at $2.5 million dollars.

This artwork measures 19"x29" and hangs in my office. It is a piece of memorabilia from a Shark Dive I went on in the Bahamas. I took the photograph of the sharks using a Nikonos underwater camera at a depth of 40 feet without being in a shark cage. There are 5 Caribbean Reef Sharks in the photo.

All of the typography and layout was created in Adobe Pagemaker. The file was taken to a commercial printing house and a pre-press halftone negative Velox print was made of the layout. The color photo size is 11"x9"

The color shark photo is an actual color photograph enlarged from a 35mm film negative. The print was then glued to the Velox layout.

The Velox and image combination/sandwich was then dry-mounted onto a 1/4 inch sheet of foamcore board.

A black matte was cut-to-size and then the whole thing was mounted under glass in a black anodized metal frame. (that is why there is glare on the picture.)

Over time, a velox tends to lighten with exposure to sunlight, so this is not an archival technique by any means.

The shark tooth image on the velox is an actual shark's tooth that fell to the bottom while the divemasters fed the sharks during the dive. I have it at home...somewhere. Here is another jpg of the real shark shot.

This artwork is 1/1 and is valued at $12.7 million dollars.