When life gives you lemons, draw them, 11 x 14 inches dry pastels, graphite on paper

"When life gives you lemons, draw them". (Nikki)

"...the painting has a life of its own. My mission is to bring forth this life". (Jackson Pollock)

"Trust your intuition, it's just like goin' fishin'; you cast your line 'til you get a bite." (Paul Simon)

The Perfection of Small Birds

Eneggma

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

 Eneggma 01   Eneggma 02

 Eneggma 03   Eneggma 04

Eneggma – Set of 4 x 4 Dry Pastels – part of sketches for The Perfection of Small Birds, by American Poet Hannah Gerber. Dry pastels, frames use crackle glaze and off-white over robin-egg blue.

Dust Bath

Monday, April 10th, 2006

  Dust Bath

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

  Chickadee #2

          4 x 6 Dry pastels on charcoal paper

Another sketch for Hannah Gerber’s The Perfection of Small Birds.

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Chickadee #1

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

  Chickadee #1

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.

Dusk

Friday, April 7th, 2006

                  Dusk 

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.