You are invited to visit my studio for POST this coming weekend. Bonus, I'll be participating with a group of artists.

This drawing was a complete surprise when I made it and it surprises me each time I look at it again.
More like my pastel drawings than the ink of pencil drawings, it inspires me to mix my media a bit more.

My drawings always seem to flow from more to less —chaos to order.
This is one of the more ordered drawings and it uses a subset of the common language in all my drawings.
Often this set of marks has the feeling of weaving or textiles. I’m glad that they do.

A pile of loose debris.
Often I sweep up these little piles on my studio floor and then draw my impressions.
Dead leaves and fine strips of paper like shavings are always finding their way to my studio floor.

Schrubs?
We have these little bushes outside by the sidewalk. These come to mind now — not sure they were in my mind when I drew it.
Funny little elipse of marks.

Somehow I think this was all about having passed that scrubby pine with a squirrel’s nest in it.

Funny how those things make such lovely picticures in one’s mind and they can make it out the ends of your fingers.

Feels like a rubbing, yes?
That’s how I made the marks, rubbing over and over again.

A more successful effort toward the weaving of marks and the enclosure of objects.

More opacity here and more interesting shapes.

I've been getting my studio ready for Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. We have tracks for lighting in our hallways and I'm hanging work there. Got these puppies and they should cover the space I have picked out just right. Now to install them so I can select the work.

Everything about this one is stiff, spiky.

The color reflects that I had some serious energy when I drew it. The eliptical forms feel as though they are stuck together and I like that.

The layers have less depth than I had hoped for when I began the drawing.