Category: Drawings

  • Ruth Bader Ginsberg

    Ruth Bader Ginsberg

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    “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”

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    “I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.”

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  • George Floyd, BLM poster

    George Floyd, BLM poster

    a large 30 x 40 inch, charcoal drawing of George Floyd, 2020, used as Black Lives Matter poster and banners

  • Study for Wade in the Waters

    Study for Wade in the Waters

    pencil drawing, 2014, 12 x 18 inches

  • Mother and Child, 2021

    Mother and Child, 2021

    digital iPad drawing

  • Amaya at coffee shop

    Amaya at coffee shop

    Digital Ink Drawing
    16 x 12 inches

  • feet studies

    feet studies

    Feet, feet and more feet.  Drawing this lower extremity is fun.  Feet can be very expressive.  We are used to hand gestures in paintings but feet can be story tellers too.

    I am working on a new dance painting where both, feet and hands, are very important.  When you are eager to start a new painting it is so tempting to just jump in as the idea rushes you—like a vacation romance. While this can yield some clever brushwork—well, and some true disasters as well—more often it is better to rehearse the parts, to dig in and find better and better ways to paint that initial flush of an idea.

    I always figure if I have a good painting idea it is worth putting the work into the prep and refinement.  Most good ideas reward you for the efforts.

    We always envision artists working in a frenzy of inspiration—and I guess we do, sometimes—but to achieve that spontaneous, seemingly effortless beauty of brushwork on the canvas it is necessary to rehearse, study, find the right lines, colors and forms—before you just start scrubbing around on the canvas.

    (feet studies, 8×8 inches)

  • Bath Mural Studies

    Bath Mural Studies

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  • dreams of flying

    dreams of flying

    Sometimes just playing with dark lines on white paper is the best.  It feels like magic when you take a blank page and with a few spare lines you tell a full story.  …and for now back to the brushes, with color and texture and shadow and ….seeya

  • study for belly dancer

    study for belly dancer

  • journey together

    journey together

    graphite on paper

    8 x 10

  • Study for “Backstage Stairs”

    Study for “Backstage Stairs”

    graphite on paper

  • Mother and Daughter

    Mother and Daughter

    I did this drawing back in 1993 when Jen was breastfeeding our daughter Kate.   The drawing was intended as a study for a painting but I felt this drawing said it completely and needed no more.

  • study for “Barn Dance”

    study for “Barn Dance”

    on toned paper, study for oil painting finally called, “Another Full Moon Night“

  • figure study for “Ledges”

    figure study for “Ledges”

    study on toned paper, conte and pencil

  • figure study for “Backstage Steps”

    figure study for “Backstage Steps”

    pencil drawing

  • figure study for Water Dance

    figure study for Water Dance

  • Sleeping Woman

    Sleeping Woman

    ink on Arches watercolor hot pressed paper, 8 x 10 inches

    There is something about playing with simple lines on white paper.

  • Mask Maker

    Mask Maker

    The mask maker sits, camouflaged among his wares. It is interesting to note that his own face is hidden, while he shows us many faces in different states of emotion. Is it just a picture of a craftsman and his wares, or does it make a comment on the essential isolation and self protective, secretive nature of the human heart and the disguises we give ourselves to present to the various worlds we inhabit?

    SOLD

  • Nyads

    Nyads

    This deceptively simple ink line drawing of bathers frolicking in the surf has a clarity of line reminiscent of figures on ancient Greek pottery.  Arms akimbo, the figures celebrate the waves almost as though raising invisible offerings in their play.

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  • The Sculptor’s Table

    The Sculptor’s Table

    The ink line drawing, “The Sculptor’s Table” is a look at the interior of a sculptor’s small studio.  We see him in an introspective moment.  The scene is ambiguous, as we can’t really say if he is envisioning his next project, or perhaps lost in a moment of sadness.  The outside window is close by, but he is contained in the small room which holds his work and his tools.

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