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Friday, April 7th, 2006
Dusk - 8 x 10, dry pastels, pencil, eraser on charcoal paper. A few sketches for Poet Hannah Gerber’s book The Perfection of Small Birds will be posted this week. This one was inspired by Dawn, a recent acrylic painting, as well as the sketches for Hannah.
Dawn
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Dawn – 13 x 37 x 2 inches – Acrylics on wrapped canvas, frame painted as part of the painting.
Inspired by sparrows on the fence in our back yard, singing during dawn every morning as if to create the day with their song!
Gold In The Mountains #2
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
Gold In The Mountains #2 ~ 11 x 14 Oil Pastels, framed 22 x 26 inches
Poplar Trees (Aspen) in the Rocky Mountains during Autumn display large golden-yellow masses of leaves, represented here with strokes in diagonal direction. Tree trunks are marked vertically across the entire page, grounding the drawing as a whole compositionally. The green-black portion displays the vertical growth of evergreens. Less obvious are the horizontal strokes I felt were appropriate for the mountain, softening its nature and place it back in distance.
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