Pencil portraits done at a Skeptics Convention

This is a pencil drawing of my dad, John (Freddie) Ambrose, Sr. who was a paratrooper during World War II

Pencil on Paper 16″ X 18″

The original acrylic on canvas was completed in 1992 and was sold to the Ralph and Dorothy Venezia Family in 1997. A 16″ X 20″ C-print was photographed to make this image. The tattoo on his right arm is purely made-up. I placed it on his arm as a tribute to one of my favorite writers and art-critics, Professor Camille Paglia whose attitudes and writings swing between high-cultural and low-cultural extremes.

This is a flawed photoshop print of one of my best paintings which tries to make the case for the beautiful afterglow that comes from decay and decomposition

Three pencil portraits of the ethereal vocalist