July 26th, 2017 Lake of the Woods, Ontario Pencil sketch I’m not sure who he is but he asked to be drawn and when I saw him, I felt I have or will know him forever.
July 26th, 2017
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Red Auerbach
Red Auerbach October, 2014 Pencil, 16 x 20 in This is just one of the sketches I’ve done as practice for a portrait I’ll be doing soon. It’s not plein air and it’s not from life, obviously – but because I’ve been sick I’ve been stuck inside and would like to show I’ve not been…
Emily
Emily April 20th, 2014 Pencil, 8 x 10 in approx. My niece is a remarkable artist, and one morning while we were both visiting her grandparents for Easter we decided to draw each other’s portraits. She was working very hard, hence the serious expression and downcast eyes. When not looking so studious, she’s bright eyed…
January 22nd, 2014
January 22nd, 2014 This was just a sketch I did this week. I had Robert Frost’s “Come In” running through my head, and also a parable a friend’s mother once told me. I may type out the parable later, but the poem is this: As I came to the edge of the woods, Thrush music…
April 20th, 2013
April 20th, 2013 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Pencil Sketch, 16 x 20 in Though I carried all my painting gear around the Greenbelt for at least an hour in search of something to paint, nothing “spoke to me.” Whatever’s been dogging me these past months, Lyme or otherwise, flared up again this weekend. I almost…