Working in a sketchbook has never been a habit with me. I have tried at various times to keep some sort of visual or written journal but they usually fall away. It's not that I don't draw. I have been doing more of it whenever I can't think of anything else and I just want …
This is a work entirely of imagination. Like many works this came about in playing with media in this case graphite sticks that I had made and washes of homemade ink. While this is not a landscape per se, it does show the interest in flow. It also shows my love of the graphic work …
This is one example of a work that I pulled out of the drawer after thinking it was finished. I try to be very careful and give the work some time before jumping in. This was originally done about the same time as the six large paper pieces, Look Up, Look Down. Like a lot …
The only time I ever went hunting was with my brother when he came to the ranch to shoot doves. I was on crutches, which made the whole thing comical if not dangerous. Imagine going after birds you shot when you have to hop to do it. My brother ended up cleaning the birds since …
When I was growing up my parents put a great deal of emphasis on the idea of education. This is on the surface a great thing although the idea of the Great Books is that all learning is contained in this collection of a very limited canon and that if you just learn these ideas …
Much of what I started doing about this time (2013-14) started focusing more on imagined detail. I say imagined since I mostly don't work from photographs or directly from life. The drawings in this series involve the often overlooked, seemingly insignificant detail. These are things that in a well manicured environment would be eliminated. Since …
