PORTRAIT OF JULIE JANNEAN

 24" x 36"  Oil on board  1994  Private Collection

OLD SOLDIER

18" x 24" Pastel on paper

SUNNY FOX

26" x 31" Ink, pencil and Faber Castel brush pens on paper
What a great weekend I had! Our Miss Rio visited and we kept producing our art way past the time when out hands were hurting. It was that much fun and I learned a lot. Thanks Ryan Holbrook and Wendy Holbrook . She's great!

2ND AVENUE EAST 6TH STREET

 11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  ink and brush in Canson Sketchbook

Since I seem to be using a lot of ink this October I thought I'd touch up and finish this unfinished piece.  How do I know when a piece is finished? It stops being a pain in the butt.

THE CATCH

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Faber-Castel brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook
It's that time again in baseball. Great plays seem to manifest during autumn. I only know about this catch made by Willie Mays from the video, but what a play!
"In the eighth inning of Game 1, with the score tied 2-2 and two runners on base, Indians first baseman Vic Wertz hit a fly ball 440 feet deep into center field. Mays turned, ran and then caught the ball over his shoulder with his back to the infield, before spinning and firing the ball back into the infield to keep the runners from advancing. The catch preserved the tie, and the Giants won the game on a home run by Dusty Rhodes in the 10th inning. When he was asked later about the catch, Mays famously replied, “I don’t rank ‘em, I just catch ‘em.” The Giants went on to sweep the 1954 World Series." - from the History channel

RED HAIR

18" x 24" Oil on canvas
“Her heavy peasant face was fringed by a bang of red hair like a woolen table-spread, a color at once strange and attractive, an obstinate color, a color that seemed to make Lena feel something alien and bad-tempered had settled over her forehead...”
― Djuna Barnes

SEEKER OF VISIONS

24" x 24" Acrylic on hardboard
August 1992 Private Collection

PORTRAIT OF WOMAN

 10" x 8 " Pencil on paper

DAD

18" x 24" Acrylic on canvas

Another portrait of my father in law from the early 1990's.

BOOTS

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Fude brush, Faber-Castell big brush pens and china marker in Moleskine sketchbook

STUDY OF FREUD'S IRISHMAN

18" x 24"  Oil on canvas

PORTRAIT OF LUCIEN FREUD

18"x 24"oil on canvas

PORTRAIT OF SARAH BAKER

16" x 20"  Acrylic on canvass

EXPRESSIVE FIGURE STUDY

Studying with Bill Buchman. 11" x 14" Fude brush and watercolor in Strathmore sketchbook

LIVE MODEL FIGURE STUDY

                       19" x 25" Charcoal on paper

ART

ART  18" x 24"  Charcoal on paper

I've been going through some of my old drawings and paintings and came across this one of my father in law Art.  He is 84 years young and still going strong.  Those of you who know him know what I'm saying. The doctor just shakes his head in amazement when Art complains that he's getting old because he can't go full speed anymore, or "busheling", as he calls it.  I did this drawing back in the '90's and I think he still looks the same.

LIVE MODEL 1994

19"x 25" Pastel on paper.
More of the old work from our figure drawing group in North Bend, Oregon.

PORTRAIT OF LARRY WATSON

19" x 25" Charcoal on Strathmore paper
More early work from a live model session in 1994. Larry is an artist and was also the Director of the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon.

FIGURE DRAWING

19" x 25"  Charcoal on Strathmore paper

Early work from 1992 done at Peggy Oneal's studio in North Bend Oregon.  A group of us would meet once a week at Peggy's studio, chip in ten bucks for a model and really learn how to see and draw.

PORTRAIT OF DAVID HOCKNEY

18"x 24" Acrylic on canvass

Inspired by artist Linda Tennant I've decided to post some of my earlier work even though it may be chock full of honest mistakes.