Printmaking
Back to printmaking in 2016-2017 through CCSF Fort Mason Center. Returning to intaglio or etching, and lino-cut and picking up where I left off 30 years ago.
17th Street Afternoon – Three plate intaglio
Agave Pines – Two plate intaglio
Baby Egret – Two color intaglio
Bush and Taylor Corner – Single color intaglio
Bush and Taylor Corner – Three plate intaglio
Winter Front – Two color intaglio
Land’s End #2 – Two color intaglio
Land’s End #1 – Two color intaglio
Mezcal Factory – Linoleum cut
Mother with Child – Linoleum cut
Oaxaca Diptych #1 – Etching, chine-collé
Oaxaca Diptych #2 – Etching
Spring Pond Foliage – Three plate intaglio
Simple Choice Farm – Etching
Big Basin Suite.
Plein-air painting – June and July 2015. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz County, CA.
Plein Air 2015
Best way to paint is to paint directly from life. Clears my head and frees up my hand. Outdoor discomforts are a small price.
Encaustic Painting
Shoreline San Francisco
From Mexico with Love
These drawings and paintings were inspired by and made during an artist residency in San Miguel deAllende during the fall of 2013.
Sizes vary in acrylic and pastel drawn artwork.
Newer Cityscapes 2011-2015
All oil on canvas in sizes ranging from 36″ to 12″ in vertical dimensions. Paintings are roughly proportional as pictured.
Painting Cityscapes 1999-2011
The city as a subject and inspiration for creative art.
Paintings sizes are roughly proportional as seen on this page
Life Drawing – Figurative Art
Sampling of my Figurative drawings; 1999-2011.
Drawing the figure is one of the quickest ways to gain drawing proficiency, hand-eye coordination and develop a personal manner or style with a chosen media. Because models pose for short periods of time, the artist must learn to work rapidly to capture the “gesture” of the pose, while generating the structural form of the model’s figure. Highlights and shadows are essential components of structure and must be regarded to be equally important as the contour of the figure. Students need to learn to focus on this in drawing from the live model. The drawings on this post represent images made directly from a live model in under twenty minutes, however, some had been made during multiple poses. Drawings sizes are pictured roughly proportional with one another; the average size is 18×24″.
The drawings above are sketches made with graphite or pencil in ten minutes or less. The drawings below are made with charcoal in five minutes or less.
The drawings below have been made with charcoal and colored chalk from poses held for more than twenty minutes or multiple sessions.
