Tag: drawing
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Creek sketch
Made this quick little drawing on the way back down from Wildcat Rock, near Fairview, NC. The midwestern winter had me yearning for a fresh walk through spring mountain air—i felt so fortunate to spend a week on the road with two of my older sons.
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Drawing from nature
I’ve have been enjoying gardening and the specific wonders of nature this year. In the context of the confines of this pandemic, I am more aware of the small beauties in nature. There is more time, it seems, to look and notice and contemplate my surroundings. For even as the space I am living in…
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Dorian’s
I made this blind contour drawing while waiting for Jeff Parker to play at Dorian’s. It was my last night out, and the last live music I witnessed before the stay at home orders hit Chicago just a few days later. The show was exquisite. I can’t wait to get out and see live jazz…
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A big scale-up
Put in time last night doing an underdrawing and putting some paint down on this 48×36″ panel. Lately i’ve been trying to just work on whatever i’m drawn to in the moment, and last night I was feeling this big one. I lost a little momentum looking for the right source photo. to work from.…
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The boy in the cactus
Popped into the Oak Park Conservatory, which is a nice little place to lose yourself among the plants, say hello to the birds, and warm up from the cold in the winter. I really like how my sketch turned out.
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Sharpie drawings
Just a couple of random sharpie drawings from 2006.
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Grapefruit
A simple grapefruit drawing from 1997, ten years before the Grocer became a thing.
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Joe’s Chicken Shack
I always liked this simple drawing that I made in the shack back in 1995. So many good and strange memories in that place.
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Gesture drawings
Gesture drawings from my time at MCAD, 1994-1995