Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Early '90s sketches

To go forward sometimes you need to look back


Been inspired lately to get back into working from observed moments, however fleeting, then work them into paintings.

Was at it back in the 90's. Started out just sketching people often long after they had left, called them memory sketches.

Next I'll post some that I developed further into compositional studies for paintings. 


I think the guy on the right was in medical garb.

Brown ink with white on toned paper

Brown ink with white on toned paper



Black ball point pen with white on toned paper


Graphite

Degas' little bronze dancer. Brown ink on white paper

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