Based on a photo, probably from the Washington Post Wednesday “Food” section.
#16 Pomegranates & Grapes
Based on a photo. Some of my variously colored lipsticks had become unwearable, so I experimented to see if they could be used for artwork. The colors of the fruit in the photo suggested the subject.
#1 2015 Kitchen still life
Based on a photo
#9 Violin head scroll
Based on a photo, probably from the Washington Post.
#18 Pheasant hen
Based on a drawing. I was experimenting with using the china markers. I suspect the brown paper was a repurposed grocery bag
#14 Apriums, Plum Cherries, Plumcots, Pluots
Based on a photo from the Washington Post Wednesday “Food” section. I used brown paper to imitate the wooden table on which the fruits in the photo were positioned.
#11 Red parrot
Based on a photo, probably from a wildlife calendar or magazine.
#6 Bamboo Study
Ink used might possibly be some I made at home following instructions from the Washington Post Kids’ Page.
#10 Heads
Based on photos, either from photos for sale in Hollywood auction catalogs or on images from Turner Classic Movies’ “Now Playing” guide.
#4 Peonies in White Vase
Based on a photo.
#17 George Burns
Based on a photo. I did this in college when I was just starting to learn how to use ink for artwork. Some years later I saw that the paper for various drawings from that time was disintegrating, so I cut out sketches I wanted to save and mounted them into a collage.
#20 Now-doan-telmee-wott
An homage to Dr. Seuss characters. GAC was putting on “Seussical” in 2016, so I created a few new Seussian-style creatures and scribbled some accompanying verses for them.
#12 Charles Dickens
Based on a photo. I wanted to experiment with a non-white background to use the white charcoal pencil for highlights and the black for shadows and emphasis.
#13 Marx Bros
Based on a photo. I wanted to try to capture the frivolity that I saw in the poses in the photo.
#8 Toto Escaping
I did this for GAC’s 2017 production of “The Wizard of Oz” – I chose brown ink to imitate the sepia tones of the 1939 film’s opening and closing sequences.
#2 Jug and Apple
Crackling on jug is accidental – I varnished the piece before the paint was entirely dry.
#7 Philip Jackson
I used a set of artist brush pens in various warm & cool grey shades. (Philip Jackson played Chief Inspector Japp in the BBC “Poirot” series with David Suchet.)
#5 Waves splashing Rock Cliffs
Combination of pen & brush.
#15 Peonies
Based on a photo. I used black paper to provide the black background shadow effect seen in the photo.
#19 LDC River + trees
Based on a photo. The LCD tablet was a Christmas gift. Using it was a challenge, because it made negative images (light on dark), so I had to work filling in all the areas that I would normally leave blank in a dark-on-light picture.
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