Mark, looking thru your telescope changed my life!

God (because without her and him we wouldn't be here!), Jesus Christ (left handed), Moses, Ram Ram Give Us Another Om Please!, Budduh, Alah, Ahura Mazda - Zarathustra (Prophecized "Watch Out for the Cosmic War From The Sky in the year 2001" -We don't listen?), Mohammad, Abraham, Confucius, Pythagoras, My parents, da Vinci (left handed), Michelangelo (legt handed), Raphael (left handed), Rembrandt (left handed), St. Francis, Benjamin 'The Original Master of Invention and Word' Franklin (left handed), Robin 'Balance the Greed' Hood, Mark 'Give the Government Hell or High Humor' Twain (left handed), Chief Dan George, Ralph Waldo (Self Reliance) Emerson, Henry David (Passive Resistence With Powerful Poetic Art) Thoreau, Buckminster (Heuristic Process) Fuller, Alan(om) Watts, Martin Luther King, Correta Scott King, Mohandas ("An Eye for an Eye Will Make Us All Blind") Gandhi, Edward R. (Good Luck and Good Night) Murow (left handed), Mike (Master of Investigative Journalism) Wallace Ted Koppel(left handed), Marshall 'The Medium is the Message" McLuhan (left handed), Charlie (asks the important questions) Rose, Jerry (Turn off your sped up confusion TV!) Mander, Steve (The Most Human Humorist) Allen, Woody (90 percent of success is just showeing up) Allen (left handed), Richard "Surely You Must Be Joking" Feynman (left handed!), Glen 'Reincarnated as Bach' Gould (left handed), *Mrs Patricia Gordon-my 6th grade teacher who allowed me the freedom to express my talent and artistic excellence at my desk, while other students were required to adhere to the usual class work. This piece was executed during the first week of class in September 1965 - It was coined as 'The Master Mess' by classmate Rick Thoman who stands in the following class portrait, below the teacher at front row right- I am second right from the teacher in the gold mohair v-neck sweater- white turtleneck: Nicolaus 'Heliocentric Solar System" Copernicus, Galileo (Without his telescope they'd have burned us all at the stake! *left handed), Isaac (Physics was born with the observational astronomy of light photons realized through a prism of glass)Newton (left handed), Johannes (saw planets move in ellipses, not circles) Kepler, Albert (everything is relative) Einstein (left handed), Werner (there is certainly uncertainty in the universe!) Heisenberg, Richard "Surely you must be joking! Mr" Feynman (left handed!), Thomas (Cinematography and Recorded Music) Edison, Alexander Graham (hello?) Bell, Frank Lloyd (love my house design) Wright, Edwin (There is an expanding universe!) Hubble, John (Show the proletariat the universe on the sidewalks!) Dobson, Bobby Fischer (lefthanded), Adelle Davis who inspired my healthy diet when I saw her interviewed by Merv Griffin when I was 19, Georgia (connect the erotic human body to the nature of the universe in those paintings!)O'Keefe, Richard (really use the camera for artistic portrait creation!) Avedon, Georgio deChirico who my oil paintings are compared to, Leonardo "Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker" DaVinci (left handed), Michaelangelo (left handed), Albrecht Durer (left handed) another fellow German elitist artist and possible ancestor of mine!, M.C.Escher (left handed), Vincent (Broke the convention of the art school and suffered so we could learn) Van Gogh, Paul Guaguin, Pablo (without his cubism where would the scientists be today?) Picasso (left handed), Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper, Paul Klee (left handed) Chuck (get up) Close. My intense realism turns to surrealism- This may have been partly due to the instructor, Jay Backstrand and his art. This piece was one of many graphite representation studies as I entered Mt Hood Community College at age 18 immediately after high school. A crumpled brown paper bag. - Mark Seibold c1973 Another study, the instructor had us drawing the demanding image of eggs and eggs in a glass jar. Perhaps a week was spent on this image. Mark Seibold c1973 In this final study I executed the entire image within 3 hours as copied from a photograph that I took in black and white of a water droplet on a branch, for the assignment in drawing from nature. Mark Seibold 1973 Goodyear Blimp Over Morning Grass With Dew - This was a 5 step ink process in photo-silkscreen for the instructor Martha Forster - c1974 Mark Seibold >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Then a Rauschenberg style transfer suggested by my father as I entered college art classes but not knowing who Rauschenberg was, I executed the same technique of solvent transfers of popular portraits to simulate a mock audience. 11" X 14" c1972 M. Seibold -Cape Kiwanda - c1974- Mark S. At the same time while in art school, I became enthralled with photography and as my father feared. . . Oh no, he's taking photography, he'll never pick up brush and paint again. He was right. The technology and the science of photography became a new art for me. > > > > > > > > > > > Other heros... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * James Rosenquist for his grandiosity in the size of his surreal paintings , Jackson 'Raw Gut Spill the Paint' Pollock, Willem 'No more Rules!' deKooning, David 'surreal and sketchy like mine' Hockney, Chuck 'Get' Close, Gustav 'Do not Forget the Too Many Women Erotica' Klimt, Salvador 'Inspired Me from a Life Magazine Article When I Was 13' Dali-*When asked,"Do you take drugs?"Dali answered:"I am the drug". * * * * * * *My beautiful daughter Breanna who is about to become a mother of a son in early January 2006 - She keeps me well tested and on track like no other woman I know (as yet) ! ! ! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * .. Intense Green Aurora Borealis through broken clouds - cMay15th, 2005- Mark S Aurora Borealis showing usual green glow at horizon, red vertical rays and royal blue random cutain overhead- 30 second exposure with 28mm wide angle lens from my backyard on the edge of town- 1989- Mark Another night of intense red and green aurora. c1989 - An airplane transited the 30 second time exposure photo in my bad timing. - Imagine walking outside and looking to the northern sky one evening and seeing this! Many local people tell me they have never seen an aurora. This is because they are usually asleep late at night or watching a bright light in a box in the living room! While driving early one morning in April 1976, I captured Comet West with my 35mm camera somewhere between the Oregon Coast and Portland looking east before sunrise - 30 second time exposure - Kodak Ektachrome 160 ASA film - _c1976 - M. Seibold Augustina Triptych at the Isenberg - After Andy Warhol - A recent simulated photo silk screen technique in printmaking - c2006 Mark Seibold And yet another new Avedon style triptych of a friend of mine - I have simulated Richard Avedon's "solarizing effect" originally from the dark room to the Adobe Photoshop, mating to the Warhol multiple images in silkscreen effect also simulated from Photoshop- This is something I would rarely do with the new technology as I am usually only old world arttistic process- I am sure that Warhol and Avedon would be proud of this one . . . > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * the most recent painting progression- a 38" X 42" canvas in four phases, still considered unfinished . . . . A 12" X 14" Oil painting. A self portrait 16 years ago at age 38 still considered unfinished >