This image of the famous Lakota chief Red Cloud is something I did some years ago when I had more time on my hands (and I must have been crazy at the time as well, since this piece is done entirely with dots of ink from a Rapidograph pen). I utilized an unfused copier image of a photograph for 'Red' which was then erased once the ink had been applied. I added the custom border to give it a frame and balance and then checked myself into the asylum....because I knew I must be mad to do all those dots (estimated to be in the range of 16 million by the Bureau of Standards)!

I only did one of these and will never do another.

I know what you must be thinking - Harvey's gone mad!

Though you may be at least partially correct, today's art is an experiment in doing mosaic with the torched CD material. It turned out well and is very pretty - especially in certain lighting. In sunlight it is very spectacular, throwing flashes of every color in the spectrum, while in fluorescent lighting it throws predominantly blue-green flashes. Overall, it looks like jewels of various kinds. I used three different varieties of CD on this piece, as well as two small accent triangles of brass bullet casing material.

It is all glued onto a dark blue background board. It took me a long time to do this as the pieces are pretty small and the overall piece is only about 4" x 6". Be sure to click on the photo to bring up the larger version (and to get an even better closeup, wait for the little expander box to come up in the lower right corner as you leave the cursor on the photo).

Next time I've got to work with larger pieces.