Archive for April, 2006
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
Goldenrod, Alberta 14 x 11 Oil Pastels on paper
There are so many different goals to choose from with individual pieces; not attempting depth or realism so much here as playing with design, contrasting colors and texture.
Grand Canyon
Friday, April 21st, 2006
14 x 11 Oil Pastels and pencil on paper, Framed 26 x 22 inches
Part of the Paper Places series
Arkansas July 6:45 a.m.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Arkansas July 6:45 a.m. ~ 14 x 11 Oil Pastels, part of the Paper Places series ~ $550.00
Driving back to Texas on our annual 2 1/2 day trip to eastern Ontario, I enjoy being on the road before sunrise. On lengthy journeys it’s best to take advantage of every splendor along the way, then the trip doesn’t seem to take so long.
Eucalyptus Tree
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
14 x 11 Oil Pastels on paper, Eucalyptus Tree (Queen Mary’s Falls, Queensland, Australia) ~ Available 26 x 22 inches total framed size
I think this is my favorite tree picture so far, along with Wild Canada in the same series.
Post-dated note: This drawing earned a spot in American Art Jury’s 2007 Spring/Summer online exhibition and gallery http://www.artjury.com
Eucalyptus Tree is part of the Paper Places series, accomplanied by and inspiring the following poem:
It remains
when things are gone
and people
passed and roads
and paths and places
we belong
to the Essence.
Galahs in Traffic, reworked
Friday, April 14th, 2006
Galahs in Traffic - Flocks of Galahs fly head on into cars on the road to Kangaroo Island, South Australia. 14 x 11 Oil Pastels ~ Available
All drawings in the series Paper Places are framed with 3″ white mat, 3″ wide white wood classic style frame 26 x 22 inches.
Post-dated note: Galahs in Traffic placed in Artjury.com’s 2007 Fall/Winter Juried Online Exhibition.
Galahs in Traffic, version 1
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Galahs in Traffic - Version 1 - This drawing started out to be a portrait of the Norfolk Island Pines growing in this coastal area of South Australia. Many of the pieces in the Paper Places series have a first stage at the end of a day or two worth of work where it could be called finished, then further scrutiny says that it needs to be changed.
1) This is an area unlike any other, where flocks of Galahs flew directly into the traffic on the main highway leading to the Kangaroo Island ferry. Dead Galahs lay along the side of the road for miles. After two days of work and remembering the horrifying feelings of that scene, it was undeniably clear that the drawing as it is in the stage above, even though it could be called finished, is stagnant, ordinary, and so very unsuitable for the subject and what takes place there every day.
Eneggma
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Eneggma - Set of 4 x 4 Dry Pastels - part of sketches for The Perfection of Small Birds, a book of poetry by Hannah Gerber.
Dust Bath
Monday, April 10th, 2006
4 x 6 iches Dry pastels on charcoal paper
…for Hannah Gerber’s The Perfection of Small Birds
http://www.buy.com/search/q/loc/106/search_store/3/querytype/books/hannah+gerber.html
Chickadee #2
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
4 x 6 Dry pastels on charcoal paper
Another sketch for Hannah Gerber’s The Perfection of Small Birds.
http://www.buy.com/search/q/loc/106/search_store/3/querytype/books/hannah+gerber.html
Chickadee #1
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Drawing for The Perfection of Small Birds, by Poet Hannah Gerber, http://www.buy.com/search/q/loc/106/search_store/3/querytype/books/hannah+gerber.html
Chickadee #1 - 8 x 10 charcoal on paper - the space of the paper is considered as much as the charcoal applied.
Hannah was only looking for cover Art, but usually when asked to do only one design, a lot of preliminary sketches are presented also, as a way of warming up, but also to give clients a selection, so some extras were also used on inside pages.
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