Back to the basics

Charcoal is one of the oldest drawing mediums.
Charcoal is also one of my favorite drawing tools, especially in large scale work.  One of my old time favorites is "After 5".  I had fun creating it and often refer back to it as an example of what charcoal could do for me.  It is great fun spending a few hours working with charcoal whenever time allows.

Fun in the morning

Quick exercise in pastel

Apple Apple

       

Charcoal quick sketch under 10 strokes              " Honeycrisp"  Oil Pastel

Creativity

“Creativity is contagious, pass it on” 
Albert Einstein

Perfection

"Have no fear of perfection, you will never reach it"
Salvador Dali

Pillow Talk

Mixed Media

A new day

Composition

"Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful."
Henri Matisse

Doodling...

Started this morning with a lot of doodling..... hoping it will lead to something more interesting.

Fun... Fun... Fun

Picked up an old unfinished painting and started working on it.  Seems like it is going a different direction this time, will have to step back and look at it for a while... maybe a new idea will crop up...

A Perfect Morning

As Willie Nelson sings: - "Blue skies smiling at me... Nothing but blue skies do I see...."  
I do not mind long rides, especially when someone else is doing the driving.  This was from an early morning ride, no clouds in sight, clear bright blue for miles.

Degas on painting

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."       Edgar Degas

Legs

Mixed Media

Passages

Colored Pencil in progress

Collage - "The Fans"

Mixed Media Collage

"On The Road Again" update

Woodless Colored Pencil on paper

Second Run

Monotype without a press

Red Field

Acrylic on paper