A sobering overview of the historical usage of chemical weapons usage during WWI, the Iraq wars, and the recent chemical atrocities by Syria and Russia. With former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired General Richard Myers, Dr. Tom Sack, President and CEO of MRIGlobal, and Dr. Ron Trewyn, the National Bio and Agro-defense […]
Pencil study of the sandstone Head of Buddha (584 AD) from the collection of the Nelson Atkins Museum:This sandstone Buddha head originally resided in Cave Eight of the Tianlongshan Buddhist caves in Shanxi province. It is dateable to 584 A.D. by the stele outside the Cave Eight entrance. Cave Eight is approximately 14 feet on a […]
Pencil study of The Elephant Hunter sculpture (1927), by Malvina Hoffman. This was one of the most striking pieces from the current retrospective of Hoffman’s work at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. If you are in Iowa, I recommend taking time to visit this exhibition.Like her mentors Borglum and Rodin, Hoffman gravitated toward interpreting the […]
A sketchbook page showing gouache drawings after Teniers (Temption of St. Anthony) and Pieter Aertsen (Adoration of the Magi – Presentation in the Temple). Here I am trying to figure out color and composition for my current paintings.
This is a gouache modello painted on laser-cut foam board, after Pieter Bruegel’s Card Players. A grotesque, brutal, ridiculous fight scene.
A small laser-cut cardboard modello for a larger oil painting after Adoration of the Magi, Francesco Bassano, 1568.
A wall-mounted amalgam of Tenier’s many (hundred) paintings of the Temptation of St. Anthony, in the style of a nativity creche. I’m trying to figure out the rear-most figure with the broom, and to consider how the piece might be lit from inside.
A watercolor and red pencil portrait of some Hallmarker, and a brown pencil and gold marker sketch after John Leech (1843) of the Ghost Of Christmas Present from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
A gouache study after David Teniers’ painting at the Minneapolis Institute Of Art. Teniers (and his workshop) painted this charming moralistic set-piece from the medieval Golden Legend several times during the later half of the 17th century.
A watercolor landscape using my diamond framework. This was made on the shore, as a rainstorm came in from the west end of the lake.
This is a large gouache and pencil landscape, from smaller watercolor studies I made from a friend’s front yard.
Visiting the Golden Age of Spanish Art exhibition at the Kunsthalle Munich with my daughter in March, I was struck by Counter Reformation master Alonso Cano’s powerful, lifelike polychrome bust of Paul, from 1660. Based on many preparatory drawings, sketches and photos made at the exhibit, I created this three-color silkscreen. The handmade screens themselves are hand-painted separations. […]
Old pencil sketch from 1995, City Union Mission. An african-american mother, her daughter and son. #sketchbook #lifedrawing #flesh #portrait #portraits #pencil #imagodei #fromlife #africanamerican
Old pencil sketch from 1995, City Union Mission. An african-american young man. Having rediscovered this from my sketchbooks many times over the last 20 years, I consider this one of the finest drawings I’ve ever made. #sketchbook #lifedrawing #flesh #portrait #portraits #pencil #imagodei #fromlife #africanamerican
#Pencil #drawing from 1992 of a mother #braiding her daughter’s hair, from City Union Mission.
#morning #watercolor and #pencil of the superlative #gulf #beach at St. Joseph State Park in #florida
2016 #Watercolor #sketch looking north at Evangel Presbyterian during #Presbytery break. #crabapple, #westernredcedar
Going through an old #sketchbook I found this #selfportrait #drawing from 1992 at #KCAI.
#watercolor #sketch of Chef Falcon’s seafood choices at @Jarochos in Armourdale, Kansas.
#sketch #portrait made in the dark of the #PeterKuper talk last night at #KCAI. He was an engaging speaker; clearly a real pro working on his own terms. I enjoyed his talk very much.
Another odd but wonderful moonscape gem of the National Park System. Don’t miss Eddie’s Burritos in nearby Alamagordo, along with the hidden treasure of Oliver Reed State Park.
A watercolor sketch, done with feet-in-pool. My family absolutely loved this place, everything about it: the fish, the snakes, the facilities, the nearby town, the surrounding mountains, the oasis-like nature of the park. Loved it.
An inadequate sketch after Kollwitz’ disturbingly penetrating self portrait etching, shown during the Nelson Atkins show World War I and the Rise of Modernism.
A sketch of Polish organist, composer, and conductor Gedyamin Grubba playing Bach on Southminster’s Casavant pipe organ.
A sketch study for Bruta The Witch, showing the protagonist metaphorically carrying the Devil on his head.
Two studies of sculpture at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. The left is of the foot of Atalanta from Mosca’s Atalanta and Meleager with the Calydonian Boar, ca. 1564-1565. The right is from the 12c. Indian Yoga-Narashimha.
Here is a ballpoint pen and ink wash illustration from Mark 5, the account of Christ healing the Gerasene demoniac.
A man looking at morning light through a partially open window. Watercolor and pencil on watercolor paper.
A small watercolor study of an idealized man looking at early light through a partially open window.
A 40 minute watercolor and pencil sketch of retiring Hallmark officer Ellen Junger. 9×12″.
Whether I destroy this or save it, I don’t care. I’m finishing this tonight. Tired of it taking up space in my studio/head.
A compositional watercolor sketch for a planned larger watercolor on board, after the Nelson Atkins Museum’s Temptation of St. Anthony by Jan Wellens de Cock.The original is so dominated by architecture that it appears to be a theatrical set, and the painting–instead of a being a didactic aid to private devotion–is rather depicting the crisis of an actual morality play.
A quick india ink and watercolor sketch of Bill Burns and Curt Mauk enjoying a beer on the patio of Red Crow Brewing, in Stillwell, KS.
This is the second state of a large watercolor I’m working, Four Figures. This is very large compared to the scale I’m used to working in, and it feels like I’m progressing at a glacial pace.
I was looking at and thinking of Witold Wojtkiewicz (1879-1909) and his painting, Christ and the Children, when I was painting this small study for a larger work I have planned, Four Figures.
I was able to make this little drawing of the Burgomaster on the spot from ter Borch’s painting while visiting the Nelson Atkins’ recent exhibition, Reflecting Class in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer.
