Posts Tagged ‘drawing’

Recent Sketches

Posted on: December 12th, 2011
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In case you were wondering …

how I’ve been spending my time – other than picking olives, and eating bruschetta drenched in green oil; I do sit down at my table to draw/paint/collage on a daily basis. Some pieces are purely invented, some are of actual places, and then there are those that fall somewhere in-between what exists in my head and what lies out in the streets below.

Italy continues to both inspire and confound me with all it’s chaos and contradictions. For example, though Christmas has become equally as commercial here as in the U.S. they still celebrate the immaculate conception of Mary with a national holiday. Who knew Jesus wasn’t the only one to be immaculately conceived?

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Drawing-a-day Drawings

Posted on: February 7th, 2011

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January’s work

I finally created a page on my website with a bunch of the drawing-a-day drawings I did during the month of January. The photos aren’t the greatest, but at least you get to see what a mess I was making! Check it out HERE

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Posted on: January 24th, 2011
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Winter is here with a vengeance

And I am loving it! We’ve had enough white fluffy stuff, and cold weather, to keep the woods in optimal skiing and snow-shoeing condition. Besides that, there is nothing like a snowy day, and a toasty fire in the stove, to make my studio an inviting and cozy place to be.

I’m spending a lot of time in the studio working on two projects this month: the drawing-a-day adventure, as well as a collaborative print project. The drawing at left was done about a week ago, and is something of a melding of both projects. The collaboration is between a woman in Zanzibar who provided me with a very lively and graphic block print to use as a starting point or base sheet to which I would add something and create a finished print. The thing is, the starting point, was a fairly well resolved completed print. Needless to say it presented me with quite a challenge. In trying to meet that challenge, I found myself doing a lot of drawing to familiarize myself with the image, and see what part of it would lead me to the place of continuation. While frustrating at first (in large part because there is a deadline involved in this project), it turned out to be a lot of fun. I’m not done yet, but when I am, I’ll post some pictures. The work will be shown in Portland and Zanzibar later this winter/early spring.