Calamity!

It's true, I have no Internet connection. It's terrible for all of us, I know. Rest assured, hope is cresting the horizon, brilliant and juicy.
I make no claims of fecundity, I must only say:

I'll be back.

"it"

"It" is that precious quality which lets you make artwork which is better than good and sometimes "it" allows for work which is truly inspired. I learned early on, you can't rely on "it" to get you out of a mess. It is capricious and wispy, disappearing for periods at a time, sometimes only half returning, or returning for only half as long as you need it. It's also a problem to have to work without "it". That is killer. Too much of that kind of thing will sink you into a strange kind of self-loathing, hard to describe, but which makes it hard to face yourself in the mirror. And sometimes it just inexplicably goes away. But you can get "it" to come and stay with you when you have great discipline and work hard without distractions. That is why I've always liked working for three days straight, and why I built a trapdoor for "it" so it can come and go quickly when I lose the three day luxury. I find if you keep working until "it" comes back, "it" always does eventually. It eventually gets curious and wants to see what you've been doing while it was away. When I'm feeling most discouraged, and begin thinking I've lost it, I recognize this as simply the lowest ebb of the process of making art and ride it out."

- Paul Pope

The Suicide Kid

A quick portrait of the writer Charles Bukowski drawn from an old photograph. I may come back and bring the hands up to the same level as the face, we'll see.

16 x 24 white Rives BFK
(© credit to the original photographer, whoever you are.)

"nobody would help me
die as
the drinks kept
coming,
as the next day
waited for me
with its steel clamps,
its stinking
anonymity,
its incogitant
attitude."

Lack of updates.. (edit: 6/12)

Been slacking on the art updates, I'm working on some larger projects that are taking a lot of boring development and some experimental paintings that aren't worth showing just yet. Here's a crop of another large drawing that isn't quite completed.
(Edit: Posted up a shot showing the rest of that drawing, it's about 18 inches tall.)











































Thanks for stopping in, more stuff real soon!

Wanderlust Photography

I've been spending a lot of time traveling and admittedly don't have very much new drawing and painting as a result. What I do have is about 3000 photographs. On this trip I put some effort into taking pictures just for the sake of pictures. Here are a few shots from Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado.
(Note: a couple of these were shot by Larissa, who also provided the nice SLR I was shooting with.)

Drifting from door to door...

Sketching late with the ebony pencil, tonight..

"Self-Portrait as Forgotten Old Man, Age 22"

Rives BFK, 18x24, Wolfe Carbon Pencil























Detail

Two ink sketches...

Some drawings of people sitting in the airport.

More studio shots...

Working on a portrait painting:

















Tools of the trade:


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