Field near Possum Run, Richland county, Ohio, gouache on masonite, 3″ x 7″
Columbus airport, Ohio 2019
A five inch by eight inch gridded sketchbook is my go-to for life drawing on the fly…And by life drawing I mean real life…not drawing from photographs. While traveling abroad, sketching and drawing require that I slow down a bit and savor experience in a way that taking pictures with a camera does not. Many of these were completed in airports or public spaces (pre-Covid of course).
Lunatico cafe, Corfu, Greece, 2018
Sitges, Catalonia, Spain, 2019
Park at the Old Town Harbor, Corfu, Greece, 2017
Open Moleskine sketch journal, Malabar Farm, Richland County, Ohio
Late autumn in Richland County, Ohio. This is a gouache painting on primed masonite panel…about 3″ x 7″
Fukushima-ken, Japan. Quick skeletal undercoats on the fly, finished from memory. Watercolor on Fabriano watercolor paper, 5″ x 7″
My neighbor the bullfrog. Beautiful animal. Brush and walnut ink with white ink corrections.
Ohio Bird Sanctuary, Seymour, charcoal pencil and watercolor on cardboard, 14″ x 18″
The Ohio Bird Sanctuary in Richland county has welcomed my students over the years by allowing us to do studies of their birds. Seymour is a popular subject. He’s not much on flying because of a bad wing, but he’ll stare you down like a boss.