His Surfaces Series stems from cropping 'thumb nail'-sized photographs he took of my working palettes. For palettes (mixing paint and extending ideas ) he uses large canvases or water color papers. He then develops those 'palettes' into new paintings, uses in collages, or uses as inspiration for other paintings. For Surfaces, he photographed 10 or so large 'palettes' of his. Next he used editing software to crop thumbnail vignettes. The thumbnails are really small portions of the larger whole; only a couple inches.