Studio Tour

Go on a tour of my studio and see my latest Tree Series drawings. 

Experimenting with Paper

This is an experiment in paper with one of my tree series drawings. Usually I use sketch paper, but this is printing paper which is much thicker than sketch paper. Because of the thickness the initial step of rubbing texture from the tree is more subtle than my past drawings. This drawing is coming out with less dark values, interesting. We will see what happens. 

Large Scale Tree Series drawing in the works!

This is a 3 x 4 foot drawing on sketch paper which is in process. It's about 50% complete. I began this drawing in Penland and have continued working on it at my studio at the McColl Center. This is the largest drawing I have done in this series to date. 

 

Tour of my studio at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation

 

Studio at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation

My studio at the MCcoll Center is just awesome. It is in te re-purposed church in uptown Charlotte. Great space. My studio is on the 3rd floor. 

 

Cityscapes of Charlotte - A New Series

 

Here is my new series of Charlotte Cityscapes. The series has 10 paintings. The entire series are 8 x 10 monoprints on paper with watercolor and colored pencil. The above painting is the Common Market in South End. They have the best pimento cheese sandwich in town! It's great how you can see through the building structure. All paintings are $190 plus shipping. Three have already found new homes in private collections. 

 Camp North End at dusk. The water tower at Camp North End is massive. I need to do a paintings of the Gamma Goat truck from the Army located on the property. 

Meredith Connelly's mushroom sculpture at Tremont and Camden. Sullivan's restaurant in the background. 

Hawkers at dusk! 

Cabo Fish Taco early evening! I like the distorted perspective in the cross walks. 

Meredith Connelly's sculpture from another view. This is in South End Charlotte near Atherton Mill.

Flower Child at sunset. The old Charlotte Art League in the background. 

Uptown from NODA. SOLD

Light rail dusk. SOLD

Cabo Fish Taco with a little memorial day flair! People just love the food here. SOLD

 

Cityscape Series Complete!

I have finished my new series of 10 Cityscapes. Here is a gird of 9 of the 10. Fun to see them like this. The Camp North End painting is not in the grid. 

Tree Series: Drawing 14 Complete!

Here is Tree Series Drawing 14! While I was at Penland School of Arts & Craft in the NC Mountains this summer I began expanding and experimenting with my Tree Series. For this drawing I choose to use a very textured and lightly colored paper. All previous drawings in this seresin had been on white, 18 x 24 sketch paper. 

I took the paper into the woods near Spruce Pine NC and rubbed it onto a tree in several places. Then I went back to my studio and enhanced the natural texture. I decided to show the most detail in the middle of the tree trunk and allow the details to fade toward the edges. 

Last two cityscapes in new Series

Just worked on this yesterday: Camp North End! I went by there for the Van Gogh exhibit, I could add more lights! 

Love being able to see the sky through the building; the Common Market in SouthEnd Charlotte. Such a cool building!