Posts Tagged ‘pencil drawing’
Little Lost Alien
June 16, 2012
After setting up a corner of my studio with a drafting table, watercolors, watercolor pencils, soft Sennelier pastels, Caran D’Ache Neocolor II watersoluble pastels, inks and assorted papers I got started with a new series of figurative drawings incorporating found text randomly cut and pasted from a couple of pages of a book that I [...]
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A life in art: drawing and painting from life & inner need
May 24, 2012
To create is only to reveal what essentially is. It is the vivid recollection of the as-yet-unknown in the known. ~ Dane Rudhyar, An Astrological Mandala Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things. ~ Georgia [...]
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Skull Time
April 3, 2012
I’m on skull time. This morning while drawing this skull, a roadrunner came very close and I watched as it scooped up a gecko for lunch.
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Cactus Flower
March 30, 2012
Drawing daily has become a meditation of sorts, a way to connect with the natural world and to revel in the sheer joy of process; the process of capturing a likeness. It feels almost devotional in it’s purity. But what it really does best, is inform my abstract work, Journey into Intimacy. From studying nature [...]
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Crow Spirit Medicine
March 28, 2012
With each new birth there is a small death. Spring has sprung and so I sketched a crow that died. He was tied with a wire around his legs to a fence made of sticks gathered from the chaparral surrounding us here in the inland valleys of rural Southern California. I am not responsible for [...]