2006 - Photo-Manipulation - I'm dedicating this piece to a really great traditional artist - I hope you will visit his gallery by clicking on his icon - you will not believe what he can do with his media of choice which is a ballpoint pen I have developed a very special technique regarding how I make many of my manipultions & it is a secret - I made this piece by using 2 separate photos which I combined in order to achieve the results I wanted in this manipulation - the vertical lines in this manip were created by ripples on a sand dune in one of the photos - once I obtained the image wanted along with the main color of green I pushed it to one side of the format I was using - I then made a mirror of it - next I assembled them in order to obtain the bowl like image I wanted - I then used one side of the green bowl like image & sized it down - I then inverted its color in order to obtain a pink version of it - once again made a mirror image - I assembled both sections back to back - once I had the completed pink image I placed it in top of the main green one of the piece - I carefully lined up the light pink lines of with the almost black lines of the front side of the green like bowl - once I had them lined up perfectly I placed a wide black contour line around the pink part of the piece - this not only defined its edges but acted as a frame or border for this section of the piece - I then placed a narrow black contour width around the entire piece - this not only gives the piece a clean & finished presentation but it also defines the Photo-Manipulation's edges - I originally made this piece for this gallery & now it is home to stay