Art Drop Monday

As promised, every other Monday is “Art Drop Mondays”. This is where I upload new affordable matted sketches, studies and minor compositions to the Gallery section of my website. Today’s three offerings are: “Swing,” “Stately Man,” and “A Lady on a Stroll.”

The Stories Behind The Art

“Swing”

This gem of a piece came about as a random doodle that simply worked. On a small piece of scrap illustration board, I just started drawing with my pen, not sure where this was going to go. The result is my little high flying act of childhood, depicting a memory I have of imagining I could fly every time I launched myself from the swing set. For those brief seconds of weightlessness, I felt uninhibited… until I ultimately came crashing back down into the pea-sized gravel.

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“Stately Man”

Almost every morning I sit down in my studio, I always do a warm up sketch or painting. Often times, it is nothing more complicated than drawing my own hands. However, I do have a large folder of photos we’ve taken over the years that I think would make for good compositions. That is where this guy comes from.

We were watching the Buffalo Bill parade, and many of the floats have people dressed in period wear. Perhaps this guy was trying to be Lincoln, or perhaps just a man from that time (it wasn’t a very convincing Lincoln, which is why I’m going more generic with it, but if you see Lincoln, then by all means, let it be Lincoln!). It’s a tiny sketch, but fun.

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“A Lady on a Stroll”

I was giving a class on painting in acrylics and this was the demo that I produced. The image comes from a photograph we took of the Miniatures Exhibit in Manitou Springs, Colorado. I especially loved how the light played with the fabric and the form. Ultimately, the demo turned out, which is always good, and I, myself, learned much about color and light during this process.

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