Two of the pieces -- Pinball and Parking Meter -- are paintings from a series on coin-operated machines. Each of the 10 paintings in the series was a high-realism portrait of a different coin-operated machine that served human beings. Every piece was intentionally devoid of people and served to depict the subtle but creeping prevalence of machines in society. Pinball machines, jukeboxes, parking meters, Laundromat washers and dryers, soda machines -- anything that you put money into and got something out of. Every painting contained unique visual challenges to solve: reflections in backlit glass, clouds reflected on convex glass surfaces, neon lighting in a Wurlitzer jukebox. Painting is hard work.

These two pieces were part of that collection completed over a couple of years and became part of my last one-man show in the early 70's. 'Pinball' survived the Thanksgiving 2002 fire but took a lot of cleaning to restore most of its original color.

Mixed into this slideshow are assorted airbrush (and other media) pieces mostly done during my time in Key West. Many were done as illustrations that were eventually reproduced as postcards and business cards.