torn paper edges

torn paper edges

will i ever need a studio again? today i found brushes for procreate that make torn edges. on sunday jake and i went to the heard museum to see a new exhibit, while there i took some more photos of cacti. i made a new drawing, and instead of taking the drawing to...
first class mail

first class mail

once in a while things really veer off from where i thought i was going. in this series i was going to pretend that my “actors” were part of a mystery plot. but as i began to think about the real story that i am going to base my fiction on, i decided that...
creating actors

creating actors

relying on my well used edition of USA, i decided to create the main characters that appear throughout the trilogy. dos passos interspersed these fictional characters with his stream of consciousness writing and headlines pulled from the time (1930s). i used mostly...
cactus for carol

cactus for carol

when carol asked me why i don’t draw cacti, i really couldn’t say much else than, i’m not really attracted to them as a source of inspiration, or something of that nature. well, since then shari has sent me an inspired cactus drawing and now i must...
building materials

building materials

using materials that were given to me by a friend, all from her father’s building of their house in paradise valley in the 1960s i built the bases of these collages. there were contracts, appliance books, specs, hand written notes, blue prints and invoices....