This was the first oil painting I ever did.  It was for a project my Senior year in High School.  The class was told to sketch an object from several different angels.  Those sketches were photocopied, shrunk, and blown up, then collaged together to form the reference from which we painted.  

One of the objects my teacher had was a melted intercom speaker.  I chose this as my object.  What resulted was something that reminded me of the flow of lava frozen in a moment of time...with alien saucers flying overhead.