Three Old Sketches

These sketches from the year 2000 are an object lesson in using archival quality materials.  While the pencils I used were artist quality charcoal pencils, the paper was not artist quality.  Thus, while it started out as bright white it has since been altered by mere exposure to household air.  Had they been preserved under glass in a sealed environment, they might have been less altered.  Still, they are representative of good pencil work, but poor composition.  The drawings should have been a little smaller so as not to fall off the paper the way the hand and the mannequin do.  The hand is mine own -- proof that an artist will draw anything to "hand" (bad pun, I know) when at a loss for a subject. 

 

 

 

A Recent Work in Pastel

"Walk on the Beach" is  a 9 x 12 (23 x 30 cm) pastel on bristol sheet that I completed in February of this year.  It is currently framed and matted under glass, and for sale at Ste G's General Store.

More colors of Sunset

"Into the West 1"  is another 12 x 18 pastel on sanded paper completed in February 2014.  Dense fog diffuses the sun's light making the trunks of the trees look like the legs of giant beasts whose heads are hidden in the clouds.

 

 

 

The colors of sunset

 

"Into the West 2", a 12 x 18 pastel on sanded paper, completed in February 2014.  The close up shows how the color of the rolling hills reflects in the low hanging cloud, and how the rays of the setting sun diffuse and obscure part of the horizon.

 



 

 

 

 

 

Some old drawings



Three drawings from pre 2005 when I was a constant traveller with hubby in the big rig.  These were done while the truck was in motion, not an easy task.  I call the first one "The fiddler".  The second is titled "Mona" because of the lady's enigmatic smile.  Both of them are developed pencil drawings on paper.  They are about 9.5 x 9.5.  The third is a small (4x4?) sketch that I don't even have any more.  THAT is a lesson in keeping your drawings together in one place, and a lesson in the wisdom of scanning or photographing your work so that you have a record of it.