Reading sketch

Here is another sketch from my sketchbook. In order to get everything in I had to continue the drawing of the figure on top to the next page on the bottom. I am currently building up sketches and ideas for a new series of woodcut prints for an upcoming show. I have been invited to produce a body of work for a show with two other artists: Richard Benoit and Akiko Matsuoka Thorson. It is curated by Claudia Creamer. The show will be presented at Union Street Gallery in Chicago Heights, IL. It will be called The Artists Marks and will begin Aug. 27 and run to Sept. 24th 2010. I am very excited about this opportunity. I will keep you updated on my progress as it, ummmmm, progresses. 

Oil Pastel Drawing on Scrap Cardboard

I did this drawing as a demo this morning for my figure studies class. I was trying to show the expressive qualities of using the oil pastels in a painterly mark making kind of way

Sketch of Graysen, my grandson...

Here is a sketch I did in my moleskine over the Easter weekend. I was holding my grandson on my lap and he was being wonderfully still. So, I asked my wife to fetch my sketchbook and I did this drawing.