Starbucks Pastel Drawing: Caught on a stop

Caught in a Stop
This Nupastel drawing was done on black paper at Starbucks on an outdoor table while I was having my Friday evening iced coffee. I drew it as if I had caught the action as the photographer had taken a photo at that instant with a strobe.

These are a series of experiments with Golden Open Acrylics. I had purchased these paints a few months ago but am just able to experiment with them.


American Indian War Horse Mask This is based on sketches and promotional ad photos for the Dallas Museum of Art Exhibit Art of the American Indian, The Thaw Collection

Below are a series of Color Field studies:

Today's Art Projects

I had two art adventures today. First I attended a Fast Sketching class led by Walt Davis who with Isabel Davis, wrote the book Exploring The Edges of Texas. I had a great time learning how to Sketch For Traveling at the Heritage Village of Dallas

After that was over I drove to the Dallas Museum of Art were Natalie Macellaio led a class in converting flat paper to sculpture. Here is my project:

Thursday at the DMA Center for Creative Connections: Color Field Studies

This past Thursday we experimented with color and how it can be perceived differently depending on context. We created a few studies and then went to the galleries to look at paintings including those of Josef Albers and Mark Rothko amd then returned for more.

Oil Pastel Sketch

Still Life oil pastel sketch on black paper
original photo of same still life

Grandfathers Box II

Last month I attended a DIY@DMA program where we worked with cigar boxes, creating assemblage sculptures. After I returned I recreated my box, painting the inside black and photographing the assemblage. I have returned to this box, this time with the inside painted white, and the assemblage created from a brass safety razor and blade box, along with a two belt buckles which belonged to my grandfather. In the spirit of Joseph Cornell and his assemblage boxes, This is a Homage to my grandfather who passed away in 1985

DIY at DMA: Rock Music 2

This past Thursday I attended a new program at in the Dallas Museum of Art Center for Creative Connections entitled DIY@DMA (Do it Yourself at DMA). In this Third Thursday class, much like the Sketching, We are led by a professional artist. At each class we create some work of art inspired by a current exhibit. This month we were inspired by the Private Universes Exhibit and came back to the studio and created Cigar Box Collages. The idea was to start but not necessarily finish. I created a painting in a box which I later discarded by painting the inside. Today after reading a section in an art book about Cornell and his shadow box asemblages I created my own which I have entitled Rock Music 2. This is not a permanent box, and I may once again paint the inside of the box and create another assemblage.

Vizsla Dogs: An Ink, Watercolor, and Gouache Sketch

Although the paper was not so good for watermedia, I wanted to finish out this ink contour drawing I did a few weeks ago with watercolor and gouache.

Dallas Arts District Museum Block Party

Friday night I went to the Late Nights Art District Block Party where the Dallas Museum of Art, The Nasher Sculpture Center, and the Crow Collection of Asian Art were all open late. I first visited the American Galleries where I had seen the evening before a great shadow play on the walls with the George Washington Sculpture.
I then went to the Nasher Sculpture Center where I found another great shadow display with David Smiths' "The Forest" on the travertine walls.
I then photographed these two views of the Jonathan Borofsky Sculpture "Walking to the Sky."

One of my favorites at the Nasher is this Giant Steel Sculpture by Richard Serra. When the museum is not crowded you can walk inside between these two curved slabs of steel. I found this narrow frame of a skyscraper as I looked up.



After Dark there was European Music (Tre Versi) which you might hear in the Sidewalk Cafes of Paris.

Sketchbook: Fantastic Cat

While I was doing my laundry tonight I sat down and sketched this image of Fantastic Cat in the Texas Cutting Futurity from an 8x10 print I had. Hopefully I can find more time in the future to do more cutting horse drawings.

Sketching In The Galleries: Ancient Halloween Mask?

This week we were supposed to go to the Nasher Sculpture Center, but that did not work out so we went to the Early Americas Section. I chose this Olmec Mask from a the Veracruz Mexico 900-500 BC. In this drawing I used graphite and White Watercolor Pencil on Black Paper. I first drew the middle ground values in graphite pencil and came back with the white with the highlights and texture. I finished with a very soft dark graphite/clay pencil adding dark areas and additional textural features.

Art Walk: New DMA Painting and a Walk through the Sculpture Garden

This is one of the most recent acquisitions by the Dallas Museum of art and one of my favorite. I became familiar with Marsden Hartley in my studies of Artists and Photographers working in Northern New Mexico in the early 20th Century.


Through the DMA Sculpture garden there a several waterfalls. I took this closeup showing the patterns created by the water falling.

There are many walls and water channels through the garden.















Two Part Bench: A Pair, 1988
Porto-beige limestone.

Scott Burton, American 1939-89


This is part of the Rachofsky Collection.
and is one of my favorites. I have sketched this in charcoal.




Sea Form (Atlantic) 1964
Bronze

Barbara Hepworth, Great Britain 1903-75

Another one of my favorites. I have also sketched this bronze in Charcoal.












I walked behind the Seaform and looked through one of the holes to see what it framed and found this.