Charcoal, Black and White pigments in water, 60" x 51"
Flow, Look Down #6
Black and White
For the last several years the bulk of my work has been predominantly black and white with some exceptions particularly lately. In many ways these are related to sketchbook work. The featured image is related to the theme of nature and natural force. The black and white speaks to the preference for drawing over a …
03-31-2018
This was begun and put away some time in 2014 while I was in the middle of a series of large black and white drawings. It begun with sanguine chalk as an alternative to black and continued in a basic three color mode, sanguine, blue, and black with highlights of pale pink. Never quite sure …
Nature is Messy
Nature is messy far from random. Rocks, leaves, branches seem to fall in a disordered mess, but if we were able to see all angles we could predict exactly where things will fall. Water is a potent force in the ordering of nature. Just look how everything lines up after a hard rain. Our actions …
Rock Lined Path
This is not so much real. Like a lot of work I just start drawing circles and other organic marks and see what they become. Sometimes they become rocks piled up waiting to be washed down the hill in the next heavy rain. Some times the marks become the water itself. Other times they are …
