Woods on a Snowy Evening

Pen, ink wash and white ink on toned paper

Ignorant Armies

And we are here as on a darkling plain,

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

Matthew Arnold Dover Beach

Pencil sketch 3” x 5.5”

50 years of sketchbooks

 

Filing away my latest sketchbook, I noticed that that oldest book on the shelf was from 1970. So there’s 50 years of sketching, cartooning, and doodling, as well as some blank books waiting to be filled.

Pyramus and Bossie

I glimpsed this moment of equi-bovine fraternization while driving down the road the other day. There was no time to stop and photograph it so I attempted to recreate it from memory.

 

I'm very pleased  to be included in the  third annual Small Works Show Exhibit 2020  presented by The Small Works Gallery at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, MA.

Due to the pandemic the show will be presented as a virtual experience online without any physical interaction.

The newly designed GCA website will be the platform to feature the artwork and all the promotions and sales will be handled online by GCA .

The Opening of this show will be presented on Saturday, December 5th at 5pm via streaming link. TBA shortly!

Facebook  Event https://www.facebook.com/events/4829157013821539

The shipping and/or pick up/delivery of the sold work will be handled directly with the artist.

The exhibit will open on December 5, 2020 and close December 31, 2020.

Featuring work by:
Mie Kurahara, Jen Delgado, Tom Raymo, Robert Markey, Steve Stankiewicz, Lahri Bond, Rachel Bellenoit, Jill Kovalchik, Dominique Thiebaut, Bernice Masse Rosenthal, Maddie McDougall, Erica Langevin, Hannah Rosenbaum, Matthew Mattingly, Becca Fite, Margaret Lloyd, Joanne Bell, Rochelle Shicoff, Jack Brown, Meredith Marciano, Bruce D. Chambers, Christina Giebner, David Barclay, Jessica Gorman, Betsy Koscher, Patricia Hinga, Bobbie Salthouse, Robert Salthouse, Marc Moses, and Vitek Kruta.

Finished making my new sketchbook. Here are some hitherto unpublished candid sketches from the old one, done before the pandemic. I’ve previously posted other sketches, watercolors, and toned paper drawings from this book and its predecessors.

 

Goalposts

I started this little sketch this gray and misty morning. I was struck by the way the goalposts showed light against the dark trees and dark against the sky. I had just been reading about this phenomenon, called “counterchange” in James Gurney’s book “Imaginative Realism” the night before, and here was a textbook case before my eyes!