In honor of Lost tomorrow night

Convenient Landscape, Smoke Monster, 2010
gouache, colored pencil and gesso on paper
9" x 12"

Inspired by Charlie Brown

Convenient Landscape, Zigzag, 2010
gouache, colored pencil and gesso on paper
14" x 20"

Space Invaders

Convenient Landscape, Space Invaders, 2010
gouache, colored pencil and gesso on paper
9" x 12"

Borrowed Words

I have two drawings in this show - go check it out!

Convenient Landscape Statement

Ice Cream, 2010, gouache, colored pencil and gesso on paper

Convenient Landscape

My eyes are like magpies swirling and dipping as they take in the world. They alight on various fancies: a phrase, an object, a pattern. In turn, I feel the need to recognize these small delights. This acquisitive impulse is the underpinning of this series of drawings.

Keeping my responses open to what my visual reality provides; I make a decision through indecision. These drawings are done with no boundaries in style and subject matter beyond size and media: sheets of 9” x 12” watercolor paper, gouache, colored pencil and gesso. Light and immediate materials allow for an unlabored response.

These small, quick works teach me about what my eyes seek out: the end credits of a John Carpenter film, elements of atmospheric perspective and relative scale that I’m teaching my students, snowflakes and cloud forms reflecting my non-native’s fascination with Ohio’s winter weather, all the romantic facets of my everyday landscape. Here, through drawing, I allow myself to reflect on the bright churning pleasures of a full world.

The FOG

Convenient Landscape, The Fog, 2010
gouache, colored pencil and graphite on paper
9" x 12"

Convenient Landscapes Grid #2

Convenient Landscape 2, 2010
gouache, colored pencil, graphite and gesso on paper
grid of 9, 9" x 12" each

Convenient Landscapes Grid #1

Convenient Landscape 1, 2010
gouache, colored pencil, graphite and gesso on paper
grid of 9, 9" x 12"