Oil Paintings 'peeled' from Glass

Paintings, like the one pictured of a raft like object going over water falls, were created by accident beginning about 20 years ago. Working as a pressman in printing, I noticed one day a very surprising and wonderful image on a piece of paper. It happened by the ordinary methods of cleaning up a press after a day's work.

Simply stated, it involves a plate glass, various chemicals that dilute printer's oil based inks, and large sheets of heavy gloss printing paper. That and some hand-work on pressing the paper onto ink applied strategically onto glass. (click on painting for actual size)

Latest exposure of the finished work to the public was one month display of 2 of the paintings, along with the work of several others artists, in the front entrance area of the largest attended church in southern California, Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. If one thing is true, it is this: the paintings must have been photographed hundreds of times by visitors eager to capture anything that looked even remotely needing to be photographed.