dragon fly in charcoal

I found a dead dragonfly while walking the dog and took it home, robbing the ants of their lunch.

“Dragonfly”, Charcoal on paper, 14” x 17”, 2009-07-10

Portrait of a Young man in graphite

"Young Man", Graphite Pencil on paper, 7"x5", 2009-06-24

Aquatic Hobby Horse

I jammed out another in my hobby horse series, this one based on a sea horse shaped hobby horse. The hobby horse itself is a solid royal blue and sits in a play area with other animal themed hobby horses. This one is located in Waite Park in Minneapolis.

“Aquatic Hobby Horse”, Pastel on paper, 22” x 30”, 2009-06-21



The original drawing as well as fine art prints are available for sale at:
http://www.yessy.com/braindead/drawings.html?i=19343

Protrait of Bob

Last week I started making small portrait drawings in the 5x7 size with color pencil. Here is the third one I did.

"Bob", Color Pencil on paper, 7"x5", 2009-06-21

Spring Art Party

Last weekend was the Spring Art Party located in Weber park Minneapolis MN. The day was perfect and a lot of people came out to the park. I only had time to do one drawing while there and I did a 6x9 greyhound.

"Green and Red Greyhound", color pencil, 6"x9", 2009-06-08



The original drawing and fine art prints of it can be purchased online at:
http://www.yessy.com/braindead/drawings.html?i=18174

A Bad Heart

In this drawing I use the biohazard symbol in the center of the chest region of the figure.
“A Bad Heart”, Pastel and charcoal on paper, 22” x 30”, 2009-04-04

Sniffing

A green and yellow dog is shown sniffing around a blue background.

"Sniffing", color pencil, 6"x9", 2009-04-26

Doggy Reverberations

Here is another drawing of a dog in which I focus on lines in and outside of the dogs silhouette. I chose a lavender base for the interior with green on the outside and yellow tying the whole together.

"Doggy Reverberations", color pencil, 6"x9", 2009-04-25



This original drawing as well as fine art prints can be purchased at:
http://www.yessy.com/braindead/drawings.html?i=2749

Blue Belly dog

Another little dog drawn while I waited. This last batch was all drawn at six by nine inches because this size scales exactly to four by six for postcards. I will be matting the originals to eleven by fourteen for display and sale at art festivals.

"Blue Belly", color pencil, 6"x9", 2009-04-25



This original drawing as well as fine art prints can be purchased online at:

http://www.yessy.com/braindead/drawings.html?i=607

Intense

Last weekend was spent at the Saint Paul Art crawl. I had a space in the hallway of the Rossmor building which is a nice converted wharehouse full of artists lofts/condos. Interesting to see gentrification in action as many of the units are owned by non-artists and demand and prices go up.

Foot traffic through the building was slow where I was set up, possibly because there were no open artist studios on the floor I was on, possibly because the building is so big the space becomes to diffuse. End result is sales were very slow for me so I worked on some little drawings. Here is the first one I did.

"Intense", color pencil, 6"x9", 2009-04-25