InkTracks

Doodling with charcoal and white chalk. In a sketchbook I made of really old (1970s) paper. It has a great tooth and takes water well too.

Practicing faces, from paintings in a book on portraits in oils. Ink and pencil in a Robert Bateman sketchbook. The paper is great but the...

Two backgrounds, waiting for more. Or maybe they'll just be colorful breaks in the ongoing story. Acrylic, in the journal.

This one took longer, penciling in the perspective, then inked with a .05 pen. On Strathmore drawing paper (80#?), which takes water prett...

An 8 minute got-to-draw piece where I'm going for the feeling of drawing fast--the scribble-swish sensation is the goal, not the result...

Whenever I want to draw but have only 5 minutes and nothing new in sight, this is one of the objects I pick. He's one of two clay mugs...

I seldom draw from a photo, but besides her interesting features, I was fascinated by this tangle of fingers. Graphite, in the journal.

My feet are perfectly shaped to fit into pointed shoes. The center toe is the longest. And I can't wear Birkenstocks, because they ass...

When I randomly fill a page with a map doodle, I never put in anything figurative. This time the dove appeared and I like the focusing eff...

After watching a documentary on the minimalist style of Richard Tuttle , I painted the cover of a new journal volume. One simple trail of ...

I found a few empty pages in one of these journals so caught the cat. I never liked the strong texture of the paper. After painting with o...

This time I saw eyes and a bulbous nose. The 3/4 profile was quite accidental. This image reminded me of the somewhat entertaining blog Fa...

I pressed a 2.5 x 5.5 piece of paper into palette leftovers and got this. It looks like a geology slice or a biology slide under magnificati...

A background waiting for more. Acrylic, in the journal.