Extra good bits

Fast travel sketches and figures.

Quick drawings from my photographs, sneaky people watching or live models. Sketching helps me train my eye to see in a short window, what is the focus and the most important thing on that page, as a recorder and artist. And it's fun!

Tasa Temple, South Korea

While exploring on a hike, our family took us to this beautiful temple. Ink and watercolor from photo.

Cornelia in profile

Pencil drawing from photo, courtesy of artist Stephen Bauman.

No bananas?

At the ice cream museum, my daughter was very confused by the sign that stood next to the interactive bananas, that read "do not touch the bananas". Pen and color pencil.

Milton

From the best office cubicle movie ever made, Milton and his Swingline stapler.

Portland Table

We gave the food a solid B, but the interiors were a beaut! Ink with watercolor.

Figure Session

From a session at the New Salem Art Museum, vine charcoal on newsprint. 20 minutes.

9/11 Teddy

From my photo at ground zero, the months following 9/11. Ink with watercolor.

Grief, Smithsonian

Augustus St. Gauden's bronze cast of this memorial for wife of Henry Adams, Marian Adams.

Savannah

One of the many historical, and beautifully cared for (haunted!) brownstones. Ink and watercolor.