Electric Dancer

Again I used colored inks, for this piece, but this time we used rubber cement to preserve the white of the paper. This time however, we were asked to add conte crayon on top. This turned out to be my favorite project of that semester.

So where did the word “electric” come from? In the film “Fame,” from the 80s, there was a song called “I Sing The Body Electric.” A student at my high school sang the song at an assembly one time. Anyway, when I finished the piece I thought about the song.


mixed media on illustration board, 35" x 32"

Dance Energy

This is a piece I painted in the fall of 1985. It was a follow up to “Electric Dancer.”

In early 1987 the piece went missing from my studio at Mississippi State. I only have a slide of the piece.


acrylic & alkyd on canvas, 22" x 28"

Ravin' Russel

mixed media on paper, 14.5" x 19"

Dancer Pieces at the Westwego Art Center

Three dancer pieces are now on exhibit at the Westwego Art Center. It has been a while since I've shown these. They were completed in late 2000 around the time of my foot surgery.

Ravin' Reba

mixed media on paper, 14.5" x 19"

Ravin' Raymond

mixed media on paper, 14.5" x 19"

Katrina Destroys Dancer Pieces

In 1997 I created a series of eight mixed media dancer pieces. Everyone of them sold within a year's time. Unfortunately, two of them were destroyed when Hurricane Katrina hit this area. One was in a house flattened on the Gulf Coast. Another was in a house that had some minor water damage. I know three of them are safe. I have yet to hear about the remaining three pieces.