Long time, no see! Another 30 Sketches Project has begun. I've tortured myself with this same mission six times before - I wanted to see if I still had it in me. Today I set out to make a drawing everyday for 30 days. Each project has a different twist, this time the focus is curves found in nature. The images come from photos I have taken over the last five years. Day One is a wee white flower I saw in my mom's backyard in Glen Rose, TX on April 13, 2013.
The two people out there that happen to stumble upon this project are probably asking themselves, "What's up with the red curve"? Well friend(s), wonder no longer. It all began with a drawing...
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| Two Hopi Pueblos and Three Wikiups, pastel and Flashe paint on paper, 11"x15", 2017 |
The dude above instigated a body of work I've been calling Shapes of Shelters. I drew it earlier this year while doing an artist residency at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in the lovely town of Nebraska City, NE. For my time at the Kimmel, I brought along an obsession with drawing simple shelters, some may even call primitive - caves, tipis, wikiups, pueblos, etc. One of our most basic needs is shelter. It provides protection and security and the simplest way I could articulate the form of a shelter was with a curve made from a conte crayon. Next came a set of five small paintings then exploded into larger scale paintings which are still growing in number.
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| One Shelter, Five Days and Distances, 7.5"x42"x5.25", shelf, pastel, and acrylic, 2017 |
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| 15 Shelters, 32"x25", oil and conte on canvas, 2017 |
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| Big and Light with Dark Little Gremlins Underneath, 36"x24", oil on wood, 2017 |
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| Bird's Eye View of a Circular Home Then Two Tipis, 36"x25", oil on canvas, 2017 |
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| Cave Painting, 38"x28", Flashe paint on canvas, 2017 |
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| Like the Underside of an Iceberg, 32"x25", oil on canvas, 2017 |
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| When the Fog Meets Wyeth Grass, 36"x27", Flashe paint and oil on canvas, 2017 |
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