In his artwork, he combines mechanically drawn schematics with the painted images they generate. The artist works up a full sized schematic from small sketches for each painting. He then redraws the schematic directly on the gessoed canvas with compass and ruler. Brown paints in his imagery but leaves the underdrawing visible to function as a pictorial element in the finished work. He animates his brightly colored surfaces through changing spatial relationships that pull the viewer into the paintings.