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Night Owl (digitally enhanced drawing) Limited Edition
Night Owl (India ink 15 x 15) available
Another surreal pen and ink drawing. This night owl isn’t a party animal. He is the bringer of the night. He carries it under his wing. But be carful–he may sell you the moon.
The Pen is Mightier Than the Quill (16 x 16 ink) available
Like most of my surreal drawings, the title of this little piece came first. It’s only after I’d played around with the possibilities for awhile that this little hedgehog came to have ink squirting out of his fountain pens.
BiPolar Bear (India Ink on cold-press paper 12 x 14 inches).
Bi-polar disorder is a bear to suffer through. Being a bipolar bear may not be much better. But this one seems to be barring up well.
I have changed him up a little digitally:
BiPolar Bear II (digital drawing available in 8 x 10 and 11 x 14 images)
Foxgloves (12 x 15 India Ink) available
Yes I have a visual mind and yes the results can be silly.
Limited Edition Digitally altered prints: 11 x 14 $75 unframed.
Fox Gloves on Lavender (digitally altered pen and ink 11 x 14) $75 unframed
I hear the sound of geese returning and I imagine something like these.
Canadian Brass Geese (11 x 14 India Ink) available
Horn-Necked Goose (12 x 15 India Ink) $600 framed; $500 unframed
I Keep Him in My Heart (9 x 12 India ink) available
Limited Edition Digitally Altered Prints:
I Keep Him in My Heart on gray lavender (digitally altered pen and ink 9 x 12) $60
Green Traveler or Silver Back (India Ink 11 x 14) available
Digitally Altered Limited Edition Prints:
Green Traveler on 60's Blue (digitally altered pen and ink) 11 x 14 $75
Bird Brain (India Ink 14 x 16) available
I have a very visual mind. When someone says “bird brain,” I’m apt to see something like this. But I particularly liked this visual pun, because it hints at the intelligence of birds, which is often as great or greater than mammals with similar lifestyles. Ironically, owls are not particularly bright birds, but crows, hawks, and ravens are.
Urban Chimera (India Ink 19 x 16) available
I think of this as a chimera, but given all of the city equipment, I guess he’s a little bit of a cyborg too.
Canine Nemesis (Technical Pen 12 x 12) available
Our dog thinks the vacuum cleaner is public enemy number one. This is how I think she sees it.
Counting Sheep (pen and ink 11 x 11) $500 framed; $450 unframed
My daughter says my sheep is smug–smug because he can count. Let him be smug, as long as he, not me, does the midnight counting.
The Whale Titanic (archival pen 10 x 14) sold limited edition prints available
The Titanic was whale of a ship. This Titanic is a whale and unlike the original, it’s meant to dive.
The Raven Tree (2 x 21 archival pen) available
When I look at pines I often see things in the branches the way other people see things in the clouds. From there to a tree of ravens wasn’t much of a stretch.
Fine art prints are available. I’ve also digital manipulated the tree so as to place it on a couple different backgrounds for printing. Those images can be seen and purchased here.
Paint Tube Hill (16 x 22 watercolor) Available
Realistic paintings are representations of three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface. This painting plays with that concept by depicting three dimensional objects like paint tubes and brushes resting on a two dimensional painting. But of course the tubes and brushes are also two dimensional representations of three dimensional space.
Pygmalion Joins the Band, (16 x 22 watercolor) available
When painting Flugel and Friends, I was struck by the way in which the unfinished the flugelhorn appeared ultra three dimensional. It just wanted to hover above the paper. It took some effort playing with the shadow to get it lay down and behave itself. But I was struck by how beautiful the floating horn was.
Flugle and Friends In Progress
The experience got me to thinking about the trick of making the flat paper look three dimensional and reminded me of M.C. Escher’s various perspective games playing with this concept. So I decided to play around with the idea a little within a painting in a painting.
The process has been fun, but very meta. I painted Pygmalion Joins the Band, with the very brush depicted in the painting with palette shown, using the paints in the tubes I painted. If you paint on block pads, you may recognize the border of the pad cover peaking out from under the painting in a painting. The most challenging part of the painting turned out to be depicting paint on the plastic palette and making it look like paint on plastic rather than paint of paper. I had the most fun painting the tubes and now plotting excuses to paint them again.
