They All Showed Up

They All Showed Up

Just a thought

It didn’t happen

Before a moon

Or the sun

Faced

Usually

Alone

Some doodles a while ago, after the sun, before the moon.

5”x 3.5” ballpoint pen

Suffering

Suffering

Some sketches the morning of a few poses of “ST” suffering.

1^st: 24”x 18” pastel

2^nd: 12”x 16” pastel on colored paper

Feelings Within

Feelings Within

“B” provided the pose for my painting here in the session I attended this morning with the Independent Painters Group.

18”x 24” watercolor on cold press

Three Silent Conversations

Silent Conversation

Conversing within her silence

Frozen in the stillness of a pose

Vulnerability displayed

Secrets seemingly revealed

Years with her artists

Presenting identical performances

Deep secrets are revealed

As more strokes fill the page

Seeing into history

Maybe her soul

As she counts how long to stay frozen

Knowing exactly when to thaw

I spent some time with the Queen yesterday. When asked, she said she has been modeling since the late 1950’s, back when I was eight or nine. I have seen slides showing paintings of a much younger version of her, painted by even older artists than me.

1^st: 9”x 12” fountain and felt tip pens, oil sanguine and chalk on toned paper

2^nd: 9”x 12” fountain pen, oil sanguine and chalk on toned paper

3^rd: 18”x 24” pastel on colored paper

Paranoid

Paranoid

They live in fear of being discovered, or so it seems. Not all is at peace in the islands.

Islands off Solitude

18”x 24” watercolor and ink.