Omelettes

Omelettes is a 25" by 36" pencil drawing, 1982

Two friends reflecting into a restaurant window with the train tracks behind them. This is one of the first in a long series of studies of the overlapping of images caused by reflections in windows. I'm really interested in discovering intersecting patterns and how they divide the space.

Ivinson Sunlight

Ivinson Sunlight is a 15" by 21" pencil drawing.

Two friends modeled for me in Laramie on a cool metal bench near the gallery where I worked.

Three Stoogies

Three Stoogies is a 16" by 20" pencil drawing.

They were saddled and waiting in the rain at Cheyenne Frontier Days.  I used the fence as a design element of negative space and to add a counterpoint to the realism of the horses.

Main Street Reflections

Main Street Reflections is a mixed media painting combining oil and pencil.

Walking Bridge over the Tracks

*Walking Bridge over the Tracks* is a pencil drawing.

Walking Bridge

Walking Bridge is a pencil study.

A pencil drawing studying bright sunlight and how it contrasts in the human face and the linear textures of the branches. I was also exploring leaving foreground features determined only by completion of negative spaces.

Self Portrait with Illuminati

Self Portrait with Illuminati is a compilation of forms  creating a still-life for a college class I had. I used pencil and one of my favorite sticks as well as a resin sculpture I'd made in a sculpture class.

Snow Shadows

Snow Shadows is a pencil drawing I did as a student.  I liked the contrast of hard and soft edges in the foilage and the shadows as they draped across the snow.

Cindy and her Plants

Cindy and her Plants is a pencil drawing.



A study of a friend interacting with her plants. The transparency of curtains and the "disappearing" figure interested me as a composition in transition.

Ocotillo Screen

Ocotillo Screen is a 16" by 20" pencil drawing.

A woman making fry bread at San Javier Mission was behind a bunch of ocotillo; the pattern intrigued me to use it as a means of exploring the negative spaces behind it and as a vertical division of the composition which occurred naturally. I loved the beauty and peace she exuded as she went about her work.

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Keeping Time

Keeping Time is a 20" by 30" pencil drawing.

A drawing from Cheyenne Frontier Days. I liked the pattern of the wire fence overlapping the horse and rider, lending an element of abstraction to the realism.

Frontier Days

Frontier Days is a 16" by 24" pencil drawing.

At a Cheyenne, Wyoming rodeo I was struck by the contestants on the sidelines so interested in the ongoing event.

Snowy Cabin

Snowy Cabin is a 14" by 24" pencil drawing.