So I cheated a little this past month.That’s how I’m starting June. I had planned to share an oil painting I’ve been working on, but things aren’t going well there. It may need a complete reworking, so I’m putting it aside for a while. Instead, I’m cheating a bit and using a small charcoal drawing … Read more
On a plane ride back from visiting my daughter’s family, I was sketching from a photo on my phone of our six-month-old granddaughter. During that quiet, awkward period while waiting to “deplane” (what a strange word), a woman across the aisle commented on my sketch. I hadn’t realized she could see what I was doing, … Read more
I have a few projects started now but it is had to push them over the goal line. This is one that I think I will call done for now if only for the reason of saying one finished piece this month. It is a 12″x12” oil painting on a canvas board. I have not … Read more
A figure drawing session at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in February 2025
I have a lot of projects started but unfortunately I am falling short of my goal to get one done every month this month. Maybe I can try for two next month, we will have to wait and see. To be fair, I did lose a little bit of time this week due to some other … Read more
Life still just happening here, same as always… A new piece finished, (I think), over the past few weeks. This is a largish charcoal drawing, largish for me, I know there are people who like to work big, BIG, but for someone whose work is mostly small scale and in sketch books, this is largish. … Read more
Sometime in the past month, I completed my 63rd trip around the sun. While these journeys have started to feel more routine and uneventful, they’ve also taken on a deeper meaning. I’m increasingly aware of how fortunate I’ve been to have 63 of them—and I find myself thinking more often about the limited number left … Read more
For the last 6 months or so I have been studying with Steve Huston, a favorite artist of mine, at his “Draws From Life” course. I have grown a great deal already in my confidence and my ability, (at least in my mind), to make a little better sense of gesture and structure. As well … Read more
We were blessed with a new granddaughter a few weeks ago. Here is a page from a small sketch book I had with me on a recent visit. Not great for sure, there is always the struggle with proportions of children and babys. Here I am trying to work out the structures with quick ink … Read more
What started as a sketch recently in a sketchbook became something a little more ambitious. This is using charcoal and some Carbothello pencil. The sketch paper turned out not to be the best for the charcoal rendering, seems a little blotchy in places, but overall I think it turned out OK. I realize I avoided … Read more