~ Major Drawings ~

I refer to these pieces as Major Drawings for the amount of time and effort involved in their creation. I have an affinity for small detail and enjoy putting a lot of work into a small space. All the gridwork was done by hand, no computers involved.

Centerpeace: The Light Within

A grid (graph paper) drawing on a sheet of 84,000 millimeter-sized squares. It was done with felt-tipped pens, such as Flair Pens, in the late 1970's. It took four years to complete and is about eight inches square. It won a 'Purchase Award' in the annual Union League Club of Chicago Art Show in 1978.

Vortal Locus

A color pencil drawing on a 16/inch blue grid containing 111,296 squares. It is 22" by 18" and took two and one half years to complete.

Garden Delight

A color pencil drawing on a blue 16/inch grid containing 111,296 squares and is 22" by 18 " It was a commission and took nine months to create.

Psidereal Matrix

A mixed media design from 16/inch blue grid of 90,000 squares. This was a commission for a friend.

Many Jeweled Lotus

The first grid/graph paper drawing done where I filled in each and every square individually, taking a year to do it. Felt-tipped, water based markers, such as Flair Pens, were the medium. The grid is millimeter, approximately 28 squares to the inch. This remains one of my personal favorites.

Peripheral Intent

A colored pencil drawing in which I drew my own grid and border. It is 34" by 26" and took several months to finish. I mainly used regular colored pencils and some fluorescent pencils that cause the extra bright colors in the picture, which is a fun technique that I utilize often. The matting is actually a single sheet of gray matboard on which I used pastels, pencils and ink to make the mat appear multi-leveled with several colors, accenting the central art and giving greater depth to the entire piece.

Provocated Slant

A bit of mixed media using colored pencils for the interior and ball point pens for the border. I sketched out a rectangle and scribble lines of color within it, filling every bit of pare that I could discern. The outer squiggling border brings out the pinks and purples nicely. A fun project! This was a commission for a friend at work (my day job) and the art is approximately 24" by 18".

Transpectral Respite

I drew this to produce a pattern of blending and contrasting colors across the page, coloring the individual squares in patterns that produce an almost kaleidoscopic effect. I refer to this technique as Colorblend. It is approximately 26" and 20". This photo was taken while the art was framed under glass.

Windowflux.

This is the first drawing I finished on a newly acquired, at the time, sheet of blue grid graph paper that is 22" by 18" with a grid of 16 squares to the inch. This was much larger than the millimeter grids I had been using. Having such an area to work on was fun to play, and inspired me to try out various ideas of colors, patterns and objects mixed together to produce this chaotic conglomeration of colors, patterns and shapes. It was chosen into the Chicago Art Institute's 1978 Chicago and Vicinity Show, Works On Paper.

Chromatic Pause

I drew this grid to make a colorblend design and added the sinuous shape in the middle as something new. The pattern design is colored pencil, with an interesting shading technique, and the curved item in the middle is ball point pen. The surrounding chaotic border is colored pencil. It took a couple months is 38" by 30" framed.

Creative Edge

I sketched out a variety of lines and shapes on a larger sheet of 28" by 22" paper. I used those lines to give direction to filling in the space with color, texture, pattern and shape using non-ink stick media. This included colored pencils, metallic pencils, graphite pencils, grease pencils (China markers), pastels, charcoal, crayons and fluorescent crayons. I used China markers for the outside texture on the matboard.

Transpectral Diffusion

This is a colored pencil drawing within a freehand drawn grid. It was the first time I drew my own grid and I wanted a loose feeling to it, although it appears more haphazard than I wanted. I added four areas of curved lines to the grid to give the impression of bulging. It is approximately 34" by 28" and took a couple months to create.