Category: drawing

Sketch journal April 2023

We went to France in April 2023 to visit Sam’s daughter who was in pastry school there. Instead of taking my chunky book, I took some paper in a folder and some pens. I...

Sketch journal March 2023

I sketched a lot of rocks. There are a lot of rocks here, so a readily available subject. This drawing shows snow on the rocks – that black and white contrast that I really...

Sketch Journal February 2023

This drawing of my left hand may be my favorite in the whole sketchbook. Hands are notoriously hard to draw, but this really does look like a hand. It’s got a sketchy quality and...

Sketch journal January 2023

The first drawing came from copying something I liked – I can’t remember where I copied this from. I should have made a note on the page. I like the simple graphic nature of...

A release of some kind

I have been wanting to make a trace monotype since I discovered what they are. Maybe it was a few years ago that I saw one on Instagram. The medium entered my consciousness. Something...

Thought feathers

Drawings are thought feathers, they are ideas that I seize in mid-flight and put down on paper. Louise Bourgeois I took a Zoom class yesterday with London Drawing Group. “Louise Bourgeois: Doodling and the...

What I’m up to

A new plan for the khaki cloth. I’m going to double up the strips on the sides. The earlier design had strips horizontally through the upper area, which now feels too constraining. I’m going...