DRAWINGS
Pencil and Charcoal Pencil on Paper. 18”x24”
Working en plein air at Deception Pass.
Deception Pass
My son, Tommy, gave me this to keep me company at Deception Pass while I worked doing Plein Air Drawings and Paintings.
Mixed Media on Paper. 24”x18”
Sumi-e and Watercolor on Paper. 15”x12” Deception Pass, en Plein Air
16”x20” Charcoal Pencil on Paper.
Composite from 4 different herons drawn (through binoculars) over the course of four hours.
Charcoal Pencil and Colored Pencil on Paper. 15”x12”
Mixed media on Paper. 18”x24”
Charcoal on Paper. 12”x15”
The rock is revealed by an extremely low tide.
Mixed media on Paper. 16”x20”. Deception Pass, En Plein Air
Mixed media on Paper. Drawn en plein air. Deception Pass. 16”x20
Charcoal pencil on paper. 15”x12”. En plein air, Deception Pass
En plein air at Deception Pass. Watercolor, pencil, oil pastel and charcoal on Paper. 9”x12” each
Mixed media on paper. 18”x24”. Deception Pass, en Plein Air
Composite: Hat, Pencils, Foggy Campground in early morning, Madrona sparkles, charcoal on easel
En plein air at Deception Pass. Charcoal, pencil and oil pastel on paper. 12”x15”
En plein air study, Deception Pass
En plein air, Deception Pass. Watercolor on paper. 12”x15”
The Olympic Mountain Range can be seen on the far horizon.
Mixed Media
Watercolor (drawn through binoculars)
Watercolor (drawn through binoculars)
En plein air (Deception Pass). Mixed media on paper. 11”x14”
En plein air (Fir Bay at Deception Pass). Watercolor, Oil Pastel and Charcoal. 11”x14”
En plein air (Deception Pass). Charcoal on paper. 14”x17”
En plein air at Deception Pass (at noon). Each drawing is pencil and oil pastel on black paper, 8”x10”.
En plein air at Deception Pass. Charcoal on Paper. 12”x15”
En plein air, Deception Pass. 12”x15”
My 1st driftwood study, Deception Pass. Pencil on paper, 12”x15”
Charcoal, Oil Pastel and Pencil on Paper. Deception Pass, 8”x10” each
En plein air (through binoculars from a cliff above the bay at Deception Pass). Charcoal, pencil and oil pastel on one sheet of paper. 11”x14”
En plein air pencil on paper study. 11”x14”
On my birthday at dawn.
En plein air, through binoculars at Deception Pass, (Sketchbook)
Drawn at Madrona-ji, Deception Pass. On my birthday at dawn.
(Drawn through binoculars)
Madrona-ji, Deception Pass
En plein air, Shrub-steppe. Pastels and mixed media
All day under my canopy in the winds...
.... at the end of a very long day of work.
The work tent can just be seen silhouetted against the far horizon.
Rock supports, bags of sand and lots of rope tied all the tables, chairs and canopy to the sage country all around me.... the hot and cold winds were often quite strong and blew in different directions all day long.
I've known Barb since 1998. She (plus her late husband, relatives and other friends) has befriended me in countless ways, making my artwork and shrub-steppe-centric video/audio recordings and programs possible.
This panorama shows my blind and video camera during an early morning moonrise. Having gotten into position long before sunrise, I had just finished making field recordings of a Rock Wren at its favorite singing perch. The shots are featured in my program "The Vanishing Shrub-steppe" on this website.
My favorite columnar basalt cliffs, a boundless source of inspiration.
This particular section of cliff has many stunning, anthropomorphic columnar basalt "figures" that metamorphose all day with the changing light (which can make drawing and painting a challenge!).
The multi-directional winds would whip the cloth canopy all day with the snapping sounds and aural violence of a three-master in a storm at sea.
Shrub-steppe, Plein Air
These photos give you a sense of the remoteness of this area as well as the immensity which surrounded me all day long as I worked.
At The Elders site
Plein Air
Plein air
Plein air, watercolor
Drawing unfinished due to Cloudburst!
Waiting in the car so I can resume work on my drawings.....
Plein air, mixed media
Mixed media
I never drew from Photographs in the shrub-steppe (or at Deception Pass); all work was done en plein air. However, I DID dream of one day creating a miniature version of my favorite sections of columnar basalt (The Elders) in high-fired clay as a 3-dimensional tribute to a beloved sculptural world that I learned to honor in 2-dimensional drawings and paintings.
Mixed media
At the end of a long work day, I would stay in a semi-abandoned ranch house kindly loaned to me by Mike Zimbelman. It had belonged to his grandparents (his parents had grown up there).
Z-Ranch (with my wife, Christina)
Z-Ranch
Z-Ranch
Z-Ranch
Mixed Media on Paper, 18”x24”
for my son, Tommy
Sumi-e and traditional black ink on paper. 18”x24”
David Traylor created a number of unique ceramic "elements" for one of my multi-media/lightbox installations.
Multi-media
Oil Pastel on Paper. 8”x10”
Charcoal on Paper, 18”x24”
On prepared/painted background
Watercolor and Sumi-e
Sumi-e on Newsprint
En Plein Ari, Ink on Paper, 18”x24” (Drawing assignment at Pratt Institute), 1975
Charcoal Pencil on Paper, 18”x24”, Pratt Still Life Study
Charcoal Pencil on Paper, 18”x24”, Pratt Anatomy & Still Life Study
Pratt Perspective Assignment, Charcoal on Paper, 18”x24”
As seen from our apartment building, Charcoal on Paper, 18”x24”, Pratt Perspective Assignment
A drawing for a painting class at Pratt Institute, 1975. Colored pencil on 18”x24” artboard.
Pratt Institute Assignments, Mixed Media on Paper or Board
Drawings from my life drawing classes with Salvatore Montano,Pratt Institute, 1976
My 1st Pratt Life Drawing Class, Sepia Ink on Paper, 1975
Drawing assignment at Pratt Institute, Charcoal and Ink on Paper, 18”x24”
Watercolor
Charcoal Study (Plein air)
From a plein air crow study
Plein air in my backyard garden
Pastel on Rough Paper
Pencil on paper. Early calligraphy by my teenage son.
Colored pencil on paper (with calligraphy by my teenage son).
With Orion's Belt and Mars. Plein air while sitting on my back porch.
Mixed Media on Paper, 18”x24”
En Plein Air Studies, Mixed Media on Paper
Charcoal on Paper, 18”x24”
Pencil and Ink on Paper, 9”x12”
Ceramic vase created by a Japanese National Treasure
Mixed Media on Paper, 18”x24”
Pencil and/or Charcoal on Paper
Ink on Paper. 1971, 11”x14”
Sumi-e
Ink on Lined Grid Paper, 18”x24”
This was a study for a room-sized mural at Two, Inc. (a recording studio in Seattle): Yellow lines on a white background were applied with an automobile paint stripe applicator. The resulting shimmer was subtle and beautiful....
Charcoal on Paper, 18”x24”
Charcoal on Paper, all 18”x24”
Ink and gouache
Pastel on Black Artboard. 18”x24”
Ink on paper
Pieces of wood, insects and flowers mounted on a digital print. The objects were found and collected while I watched my son play on a playground.
Pencil and Colored Pencil rubbing on different wood pieces (on onion skin paper).
Photos mounted on paper with mixed media.
Preliminary Drawing for Oil Painting
Colored pencil and ink
Preliminary Drawing for Oil Painting
A freelance project for Green River Community College in 1973.