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Small Drawing Show

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    In gathering material for Chasworld.com I find some of my own work doesn't fit into any particular category except an ubiquitous one that I could call "Drawing". But what is a drawing? What medium is drawing? Although I have lots of pencil and ink drawings of figure studies or studies for paintings and so forth that fit a more classical definition of drawing, I did not include any of these-I'll save them for a future show all their own.

    Paul Klee- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee  - made a few interesting comments about drawings. He said that a line is a dot going for a walk, and also that a drawing is taking a line for a walk. I like those ideas. I also like the simplicity of making a drawing, with a pencil, a pen(my favorite), a little pigment on a brush, or whatever is at hand. I began assembling the show back in October, with those drawings that were like taking a line for a walk, like the drawing above. I weeded out all of the objective, subject based drawings except for these two of conch shells below. Then I took a turn toward a more abstract vein with Firebird, also shown below. This was drawn at the performance of Stravinsky's Firebird by the Rochester City Ballet- www.rochestercityballet.org  -in 2009. I drew it during the scene where Prince Ivan is watching the Firebird dance before he chases and catches it.

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    I hope you will take a little time to really look at these, meditate on them and enjoy the hypnotic movement of the line. Enjoy where it is going and what it is saying. It's like a song.

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    At a certain point in collecting drawings for the show I began developing the drawings further. I started adding watercolor and other media to the drawings and realising one of the main purposes of this web site-that is to use it as a studio tool in developing and refining different aspects of my work. For example, the squiggly little drawing at the top of the page became this, below.

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Above, Parade, 2009, pen, ink, and watercolor on paper, 2.5" x 8.5"

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   Left, Dancer, 2009, pen and ink, 1.5" x 2.5", Center, Vox Machina, 2010, pen, ink, watercolor, 4" x 4.5",Right, Ernie, 2010, gouache, ink, marker, 3" x 5"

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(More to come-Continued . . . .)