Thursday, August 20, 2015

two sketches

Man.  I've been working.  But not on these.  I'm sorry. 


charcoal & collage
11x14 sketch paper


charcoal & pencil
11x14 sketch paper

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

really what are you doin?

I know.  I've been very irregular with my postings.  I'm sorry.  And these are again just a couple of my drawings that I get out of that sketch book.  But you see, my eldest son Guthrie made an incredible book with 334 pages, a fantastic cover, and Japanese binding -and then he gave it to me...!

So I am working on it frantically, trying to get started on it, to get a move on it, to finish it, to work on it like I work on everything else -get it all done at once, at the exclusion of anything else.

So I am sorry.  
I am moving along. 
 I will post some pictures of it down the line.  
When it's finished.


charcoal  Blick sketch pad 11x14


charcoal & pencil
Blick sketch pad  11x14

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

yuck...what are these...?

well today is complaining day.
for me.  an I get to explain
what is goin on.


well. these are the backs of some of my paintings.   After I sign them I turn them over and put the date, the materials I used or at least the paints, my signature, the town where they were made and the kind and size of the paper I used.


But this summer it got kind of crazy around here and I couldn't do them all as I usually do, and they ended up sitting around in a big pile while I tried to get things together.  Some didn't have anything written on the backs of them and some had no signature even on the front.


What a mess.  And just now I'm finally getting them together and fixing them up.


Hallelujah

Imagination again

By the power of imagination all men, certainly imaginative men, 
are forever casting forth enchantments, 
and all men, especially unimaginative men, 
are continually passing under their power.

please do not misunderstand.
I do not class myself as Imaginative
but as one thoroughly
under their influence.


charcoal & pencil
Canon drawing paper
11x14


Charcoal
Canon drawing paper
11x14

imagination

By the power of imagination all men, certainly imaginative men,
 are forever casting forth enchantments,
 and all men, especially unimaginative men, 
are continually passing under their power.



charcoal
canon drawing paper
11x14


charcoal
Canon drawing paper
11x14

Monday, August 10, 2015

don't forget me

okay we won't 
strangely calm


collage bfk rives 11x15

these be some of them

these are a few of the drawings I've been doing.
I kind of like them.  This top one sure looks 1920's
doesn't it?


charcoal  canon 11x14


pencil charcoal & ink
canon 11x14


charcoal  canon 11x14

Thursday, August 6, 2015

where has he been pt 2

and when I wake up I go for a walk
and I've made lists of what I saw 
and what I didn't see

and I've been drawing a lot 
and not painting
I try to do this stuff 
all in the morning

though I did paint some large ones
which I haven't photographed.


ink and transfer on Canon drawing paper  11x14


ink and transfer on Canon drawing paper  11x14

where has he been?

where has he been? 
well I've been around but it's been busy
I did a show in Indiana



collage  bfk rives 11x15



 collage and pencil  bfk rives 11x15