Charcoal, Black and White pigments in water, 60" x 51"
Flow, Look Down #6
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 …
Dancing Trees
I tend to shy away from titles like this. It just fits though. I don't like to romanticize or anthropomorphize nature. Nature just is and even though this may seem to be a work of fantasy, the live oaks, when they lose their leaves the branches are seen to bend and twist in fantastical ways.
2017-03-09
In the fall, in the afternoon, the sun hits the tops of the trees in a distinct orange band. I tried to capture that without being too heavy handed. The media is pastel, size 30 x 22 1/2.
2016-10-22
This is an image that I have worked over and over. You can tell by some of the damage in the corners from pinning and unpinning. It is rare that something is ever completed all at once. This one is an extreme, probably one of the oldest and newest. It was started about 15 years …
Nature and Abstraction
I make a mark that calls to be completed by another mark. The accumulation delineates leaf and branch, water flow, rocks and rock fall, in seemingly random ways. Like nature it may happen without thought but it is by no means random, just not fully understood. Action creates a response in art and in nature.
Dead Bird
This was first done in 2014 around the same time as the larger birds, #4. I reworked it in 2016, cleaning it up to a certain extent and darkening the blacks. This is, like the large birds a work of imagination, although based on a relatively common site. We found this cuckoo on our front …
Sitting at the Edge
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 …
