Fruit Loop Bird (oil on canvas board) 1994 by Will Chris Holley, done in Painting Class from Natl Geographic Photo, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo CA
This Bathing Beauty was painted (OIL on canvas) from a "Swimsuit" Calendar photo which was hanging up in the place I worked (JDS Micro in 1990, now HYDRA), painted in class at Saddleback College (date unremembered). I wanted to take their class in painting live models, and portraits; but it never happened. I hope someday to paint a series of nudes, and a series of portraits (preferably with live sit in models, but can paint from photos like this, and this was a First Attempt). I know that I could do it well with some practice. 
Its a matter of time, I have music projects, seek work, I try for a social life, I do volunteer work, but Art has always been something I love to do, and I do well (and does not require the cooperation of others, as does music, try to get some cooperation, in any field, perhaps I should devote all of my free time to Painting Oils). 
Martian SandStorm (Acrylics on stretched canvas, around 1980) 
Deep Sea Life (or outer space?) 1994 oil on stretched canvas by Will Chris Holley, in class at Saddleback College. To me, it was a Deep Sea Life or Outer-space theme idea. Ironically, at a latter date, National Geographic had an article about Deep Sea Life, which had creatures which looked just like this, which had "never been seen before" (ooooh). With design influence of Mendocino artist, was it Dora Bothwell? or Hilda Pertha? (sorry, I keep getting the names and art mixed up, one did flowers, the other did designs, much like this)
Free Space by Chris Holley 1981 acrylic on stretched canvas, based on modern art of the 1950's, with influence of Mendocino artist Jim BertramNotice the combination of Horizontal lines with some Vertical lines which I have seen in Art (don't have the famous artist name handy?), I also did a Color series of horizontal and vertical lines, pre-painting studies, using various color combinations. And back when Van Halen came out with Jump, I was jamming with Alex Van Halen, while in a band with Nick Wilkinson, and was showing Eddie my pre-paints on paper plates series, and discussing the Art theory behind the whole thing. Which led to his very famous Guitar Art, red guitar with black and white lines horizontal and vertical etc Eddie Van Halen Guitar at Sweetwater Music
"The Big Bang" oil on canvas, the artists imagined representation of the beginning of the Universe, as seen thru a telescope. Theoretically, we could someday possibly get a telescope so powerful, that we can see the actual Big Bang, as it is, we now can see around 16 billion light years away (which is what happened 16 billion years ago). They used to think the universe was only around 9 billion years old, but now that we can see around 16 billion light years away, we now know its older, for certain. Done in Painting Class at Saddleback College by Artist Chris Holley aka ARCHURE (around 1994). Disclaimer: Archure (Chris Holley), does not actually believe in a Beginning of Time, time is Eternal, and so is Space. Read my article The Big Bang is Bunk: its an endless, beginingless, universe, the red-shift is due to telescopic, mirror, optic distortion, NOT the universe is expanding in all directions away from us, come on, time to grow up 
"Is Anything Sacred?" by Chris Holley 1994 oil on stretched canvas, art class, Saddleback College. Based on a drawing sketch I did while living in Glendale CA, around 1980 (after a bug bomb spray) did you see Joes Apt?, thats nothin, nothin but a tribute to what I lived thru. I have notice that Roaches have a third sense about what is sacred, and there they hang out. I was in Church and saw a roach on the feet of Jesus on the Cross (honest, I couldn't run over and chase it away, people wouldn't understand). Many years ago when I "inhaled" (and liked it), I took a puff from my tiny bong, put it down, and out from the residual smoke crawled a roach, who then crawled under my scissors (for trimming toe nails and bud), it crawled underneath one loop, thru the loop, up over the center down into the other loop and underneath the other end of the scissors. I have also noted roaches at other important, sacred places, what ever seems to be concerned with the sign of Pisces (religion, feet, bud, bong), thus the title "Is Anything Sacred" (with background color of a reddish violet, the color of Pisces). Don't get me wrong, I don't like roaches, but they are impressive, and are one of the longest surviving species of creatures on the planet. I will try to post a detail, you can barely see in this photo, the small real life size roaches in the bottom left, one crawling over my signature. This painting once hung over the head of my bed. 
Axis: Bold As Love "Just ask the Axis, he knows everything"
Artwork by Chris Holley (quote and title from the famous Jimi Hendrix album/song), Artwork 1982 acrylic on paper is themed from Primitive Art (which is a strong interest), Native American Art, and Modern Art. Anthropologists say that people 20,000 years ago were just as smart as we are today.
Gemini Star (pentatonic) by Chris Holley acrylic on canvas board 1987? (Music theory applied to Color theory, Primary Red = Ab, Blue-Green = Eb, Orange = Bb, Navy = F, Yellow = C, thus a musical "Pentatonic" scale)
Yellow Star (pentatonic) by Chris Holley 1987? acrylic on canvas board (Green = D, Maroon = G, Yellow = C, Navy = F, Orange = Bb, thus a Musical Pentatonic scale (colors are just higher octaves of sounds, all measurable in Cycles Per Second, the inverse of which (1/x) is Wavelength, measurable in Meters or in the case of light waves which are very small, measurable in Angstroms, which is 1 meter X 10 to the power of -10) Both of these STARS are using RYB theory, and not the more modern RGB
RYB red yellow blue http://www.archure.net/astr/color.html I used to follow RYB
RGB red green blue http://archure.net/zcolor.html I now follow RGB
The traditional artists color wheel is based on RYB or Red Yellow Blue, but in more modern times (Ben Franklin's color studies), scientists realized that our eyes are more sensitive to certain areas of the spectrum such as Yellow and Purple, and less sensitive to primary Red, primary Blue, and Green; and due to this distortion the original artist wheel shows Yellow as the 5th color (red is #1), when really Green is color #5. My grandfather who knew Walt Disney, was a best boy electric at Paramount Pictures and Desilu Studios, said there was discussions as to Yellow being Leo (traditional view) or Green being Leo (the modern view). I remember on the sets, the mark the Stars spot to stand, with yellow tape, but they also use green and green tape. I was taught the RYB, heard of the RGB, but had no data on it till MS Paint but I was skeptical and am just waiting for someone to say "well we didn't know what to do with green...". So even with the modern RGB, yellow becomes Gemini, humans are aquarius making gemini 5th house entertainment, same as Leo and green are entertainment. and by the way, its really humans are aquarius I.C., but in effect, aquarius is both 1st and 4th (more 4th), pisces is both 2nd and 5th houses (good for rock music and bars entertainment, red-violet Adobe 315-344 or MS 210-229), money thru entertainment is very hip, and art. Capricorn is 12th and 3rd. Libra is 9th and 12th, if you want to be cool man
WHY is human vision more sensitive to yellow and purple? Our ancestors were aquatic for millions of years over the past 5 million years, and ate Seaweed, Kelp is yellow, food. And Purple? some have theorized some kind of mushroom? or something? Humans are Aquarius and 12th house to that is Capricorn from Adobe 255 - 284 (MS 170-189), which goes from Blue to Purple to Pink all in only 30 degrees of the color circle. However, some say even though we are Aquarius, we are Aquarius IC (4th house) thus a Scorpio Rising world with Leo MC (show biz stars of honor).
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Microsoft and Adobe are different color scales that meet at one point, mid aries, 15 degrees of aries = hue 0 in both MS and Adobe (I prefer Adobe). we always start with #1 and making it triadic, 120 degrees, 1,5,9 or RYB RYB red yellow blue on LEFT RYB 4,5,6 are like autumn, various shades of orange, humans are orange, get a photo and check the color 
Here orange is all over, but in reality (to the right) orange is only color #2. Primates, and Monkeys are gemini #3, with gemini rising (world of monkeys), the 12th house is #2 orange world of Apes, orangutans and humans are orange apes, all apes are tailless, tails are required for balance for climbing trees, thus we are trapped on the ground, stranded 12th house apes (Gorillas and Chimps too) Capricorn on the RGB on the right we see so much detail that we see from blue to purple to pink all in 30 degrees of color, to which we give credit on the left to 9,10,11, but its all really just 10 on the right. 
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RGB red green blue on right and RGB 4,5,6 are like spring various shades of green, is harder for the eye to detect because "Green is a 'Don't Care' in Nature" -Mike Merifield anthropologist Saddleback College. Its green its plants, forest, trees, thats all humans need to know about green. We don't care if its gemini chartreuse, cancer avocado, leo green, virgo mint, libra seafoam, scorpio aqua, well maybe gemini or scorpio, but all the rest is green 
Yellow on the left wheel is color 5, but in reality, on the right wheel it is color #3 and only the midpoint of #3, as we see a whole range in color #3 from amber, to yellow, to chartreuse, our eyes are more sensitive to #3 
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