The pencil drawings in this Handbook sketchbook are a mix of copies drawn in museums, from online images, and from life in airports and a Vivaldi rehearsal in a London church. This book took a while to fill. Some pages have been erased and redrawn on later dates. It began as a travel book on a brief trip to Amsterdam in September 2017 and ended at home in February 2024. One of the dates says 2022 … [Read more...]
Shape, Color & Pattern
Workshop Art: Ken Kewley's Looking and Inventing “Separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.” — Werner Heisenberg, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . Participating in a Ken Kewley collage workshop has become a nearly annual event for me since 2015. The quantity and scope of work produced is hard to equal elsewhere. The pace is fast. Each set of instructions … [Read more...]
Tv Portraits
Journalists, politicians, reporters, and policy experts are the portrait subjects of the five minute animated gif in this post. Drawings were made while watching tv news shows during the three month period between the presidential election and first six weeks of the new administration. News of the day opportunistically provided subjects for drawings that are presented in roughly the order they … [Read more...]