"there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" Sir Frances Bacon, "Of Beauty, Essays" 1625
One of the pieces I’m working on this fall is The Wedding of the Earth and Sky. It will be entirely stippled with my trusty Rapidograph pens. I am pleased the progress so far. Apart from the pencilling, these images represent about 4-5 hours work thus far. I plan to submit piece for a show coming up in November, so really it will be one large Inktober effort. I’m already penciling two more pieces in this cycle of work. I’ll be posting updates as work progresses.
– Richard
Wrath is my latest drawing. It was done for an upcoming show at Copro Gallery in California called 7 Sins. The show, curated by Cris Velasco, opens June 8.
Symphonist No.5 is a silverpoint miniature (4″x3″). It’s one of an ongoing series. Silverpoint lends itself beautifully to miniature work due to the precision you can get with the silver stylus. Over time, this drawing will darken as the particles of silver trapped by the ground begin to tarnish.
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a series of cross hatched drawings. It started out as a test of some paper I found in the back of my paper rack called #234 Paris Bleedproof Paper for Pens by Borden and Riley. I have a habit of picking up tablets of paper that look promising and stashing them away for later. I really love this paper for Pigma Micron markers. It’s like the two things were made to go together. So, like potato chips, one followed the other. Here is what I’ve done so far.
This image is my most recent work. I am re-posting two other works below that were completed in late 2014, and part of the same cycle.
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These are images of my new drawing called “Pins.” To see a larger view, click on the image. I’ll be sending this one to a show in July called “of Beauties and Beasts” in Troy, New York at Clement Art Gallery.
– Richard.
I now have 10 giclee prints of my drawing “The Drowned Library” available in my print webstore.
