Navigator's Mapmaking Product:Navigator's Mapmaking each piece is then shaded

each piece is then shaded with hot sand to create depth in the image and then placed together like a puzzle to create the final image

lending each piece appealing texture

a centuries-old process in which pure gold is fused to silver through heat and pressure

pine needles

Navigator's Mapmaking Product:Navigator's Mapmaking each piece is then shadedThis large diptych was created with bold gestural brushwork and fixed charcoal; it has energetic movement with layers of forms, some suggestive of life moving through water as in a pond. The paints are handled in numerous ways, from transparent to thick impasto. Shipped flat in two panels stacked together, it's signed on the back and ready to hang.