"GE" Yesterday

“GE” Yesterday

Yesterday he posed for a costume figure session.

1^st: 18”x 24” pastel on colored charcoal paper

2^nd: 24”x 18” graphite warm up sketches

Temporary

Temporary

There are so few places left, and they are now only temporary, waiting to be invaded too. For years now I watch them disappear, devoured by those like me, and the crowd, just behind. 

22”x 28” Sharpe and acrylic on stretched canvas

Within

Within

I had them escape

After I invented them

Finding their way back

Back to where they claimed

They were from

Decided I belonged

With them

Them from within

So here I am now

Searching with these lines

Drawing the entrance

Filling it with ink

Foolishly pretending

I too can escape

Islands off solitude

3.5”x 6” fountain pen 

"ST" on a Beach

“ST” on a Beach

It was snowing and blowing and cold outside the studio and getting later into the evening when he sat on the modeling stage in the glow a stage light bulb. But he posed long enough to sketch him, with time to place him somewhere else.

14”x 11” ink and watercolor on Bristol paper

This second sketch of “ST” was earlier in the evening, before I decided he belonged somewhere else.

11”x 14” ink and watercolor on Bristol paper

"ST" This Morning

“ST” This Morning

My sketch of one of his longer poses today, looking into the shadows.

9”x 12” ink on toned grey paper