Untitled (abstract pencil drawing)

"Untitled" pencil 15" x 10"

Abstract pencil drawing on Canson Mi-Tientes mounted to acid-free foamcore.

This piece is available for purchase, matted to fit a standard 20" x 16" frame.

Mixed Messages

"Mixed Messages" Pencil 16" x 10"

Abstract black and white drawing in pencil.  Some areas were treated with a bit of alcohol wash, some were crosshatched...inspiring the title.

The original is available via Saatchi Art, where you can also order prints on demand.  They also have a really cool feature where you can see how the art would look in a room...

Strata

"Strata" Pencil Drawing

Another non-objective pencil drawing from my sketchbook.  By non-objective I mean that I don't have a subject in mind when I'm working; I'm not representing a specific thing in the piece.  It's sort of art about nothing...Seinfeld fans should love it!

As I develop these drawings, they do begin to suggest forms, objects, or scenes.  This one reminded me of layers of rock, that one might find in a canyon...

Reflections

"Reflections" Pencil Drawing

From the sketchbook, a small pencil drawing that began with the stone shapes, but they were a bit too...direct?  Specific?  Anyhoo, I took my eraser to it, which suddenly suggested ripples in water.  I just love those happy accidents when I'm working!

Fronds

"Fronds" Pencil Drawing

From the sketchbook, a non-objective drawing that developed into organic, fern-like shapes.  The title "Fronds" seemed as appropriate as any.

My non-objective drawings start quite literally with a bunch of scribbles...I scribble some more, erase, smudge, hatch, etc., until a suggestion of form develops.  Usually these drawings start to resemble landscapes or images of nature.  I enjoy working this way a great deal; it's wonderfully meditative, and keeps me in touch with my artistic voice I think...

Woven

"Woven" Pencil 6" x 4"

From the sketchbook, titled as the forms seemed to weave themselves together.

Some interesting results from my sketches lately; I will have to play with some image transfers to create some larger, finished work...

Leaves Or Fish?

"Leaves Or Fish?" Pencil 6" x 4"

From the sketchbook, forms that are swimming or floating...or both?

Three Trees

"Three Trees" Pencil 7" x 4"

Something from the sketchbook, random scribbles becoming a misty landscape.

Reedscape

"Reedscape" Pencil 7" x 4"

Something from the sketchbook, just a random little pencil sketch.  The vertical forms started looking like reeds to me, hence the title.

WIP: Tuff the Pug

My latest work, a portrait of my very own Pug, Tuff, in colored pencil on black paper.  Just getting the inital highlights in, so not much to see yet.

I'm using the same reference photo that I used for this pencil portrait of Tuff:

This will evenually go up on the new website, to show how the same subject would look in a different medium or style.