Design Fantasy

Changing gears- Through my drawing/art history I have often sat down with pencil and paper and started by just making a line and seeing where the drawing takes me. I guess this is drawing on the right side of the brain. My high interest in anatomy, science, dreams, and mechanics often slip into these designs. My major direction when I'm doing these works is design, composition, and often color. Sometimes they are very dream like other times they can be quite mechanical in nature. What they mean I'm not sure. I don't worry or think heavily about that while I'm working. I'll leave that up to you.

Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico sketch circa 1974

San Maguel de Allende courtyard

This courtyard was in the town on the high plateau. It has great architecture and at the time I was there was a true Mexican village. A splendid place with splendid people. Their celebration of Easter was amazing.

Simple toy

This illustration was created for a class in drawing. After covering the basics in shading the simple geometric forms I wanted to give the students a practice drawing subject for their next assignment. This simple toy was what developed.

Fishing Boat, Monterey Harbor

Fishing Boat in Monterey is a sketch from one of the sketch books I often drew in while staying on our sail boat in Monterey, Ca. Most of the drawing listed below were strongly influenced by that experience.

Triptych Eagle with heart

Triptych Eagle has the symbol central in the body to symbolize the heart. The inside of the symbol depicts three heart shapes. The wake patterns in the backgrounds were early explorations of the movement idea in this drawing.

Triptych Lizard

Triptych Lizard became a study in texture and detail. The Triptych symbol is being used to represent the center of movement awareness.

Natures Triptych

The Land, the Water, the Air, where they all meet is the stuff of Life.