Images created during this time were both developmental and exploratory. They came from people and objects I knew. "Helen", 1973, was a tribute to my mother. It was while painting the jars that I discovered a technique for dabbing various values of a color into a modeled form. The process was further refined in such works as 'Tetley' and 'Ralph'. Imagery was representational, bordering on 'photo-real', and larger in scale.