This is the first page of my last completed sketchbook. You will see many, many text based drawings in these sketchbooks. As we move backwards chonologically you will see how they developed and the range of things they involve. This drawing is really just simple diary entries with bubble letters and cross hatching. At the same time they are drawings with there own unique visual qualities. The blue underdrawing was something I was doing for a while to lay out the text.
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| First Page, April 2019 |
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| A combination of things; swimming yardage, doodle, car rental confirmation.... |
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| May 11, 2019 |
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| May 2019 |
Same media as the text-based drawings (Pigma Micron Black Pen) and same technique (crosshatching) but to a different end. The 'ominous music playing' component came from me watching TCM (Turner Classic Movies) with the closed caption on. The close captioning often supplies it's own interpretation of the background music in the movies themselves.
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| June 6, 2019 |
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| 'Basket' drawing |
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| June 6, 2019 |
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| June 9, 2019 |
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| Silver Tape |
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| June 2019 - Gay Pride Parade.... |
I do still occasionally draw from observation, this is the view out my condo window. I expect I will be drawing this landscape frequently the next month as I will be working from home and have my work table set up in front of the window with this view.
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| View Out My Condo Window |
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| August 19, 2019 |
I also include in my sketch book examples of things I am working on in the studio, either to work out the ideas and/or to be able to keep a record of a series for myself. This is a collage, the media is Arches watercolor paper painted with Holbein Acryla Gouache. I cut them into wedges and glue the pieces in with acid free glue (PVA).
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| Collage. Holbein Acryla Gouache, Arches Watercolor Paper, PVA |
More observational drawing, this time from the pool in my building this past summer. The shadow of my building creeps across the neighboring building late in the day. I did not finish the shadow, it moved too quickly and the drawing was too time-consuming.
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| View From the Pool at 555 Cornelia. |
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| August, September 2019 |
More text based pages, my To-Do list from September 2019.
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| To Do List - September 2019 |
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| Calendar September 2019 |
An abstraction of architectural drawings. These drawings are fun for me to make, very process driven, one step follows the last. I like the movement of the hand-drawn line vs. the structure of the 'facade'.
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| Facade 1 |
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| Facade2 |
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| Facade 3 |
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| Trip To Michigan |
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| Trip To Michigan |
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| Facade 4 |
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| Ride Home From Michigan |
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| October 2019 |
While dog sitting for someone that had Netflix I binged (truly binged, six hours one evening the stayed home from the studio the following morning to watch the last three episodes), on 'Unbelievable'. An amazing miniseries with Toni Colette, Merritt Wever and Kaitlyn Dever. Harrowing storyline based on a true story. Well done on every front. I cross hatched this page while watching. Here is a link to the Wikipedia page about the miniseries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbelievable_(miniseries)
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| October 28, 2019 |
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| Thoughts On The Upcoming 'World AIDS Day Show. |
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| November 12, 2019 |
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| November 2019 |
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| November 2019 |
World Aids Day.
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| World AIDS Day |
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| December 21, 2019 |
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| December 22, 2019 |
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| December 30, 2019 |
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| Late December 2019 |
A record of my friend Steven being in town.
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| January 7, 2020 |
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| Andy Warhol Show At The Art Institute Of Chicago |
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| Isometric Drawing 1 |
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| Isometric Drawing 2 |
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| January 2020 |
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| February 11, 2020 |
Dog sitting again, but under the weather. Stayed home and binged watched old movies. Sometimes I do not finish the crosshatching if I like he way the drawing looks in process.
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| February 16, 2020 |
The I believe I was so bored with being sick while dog sitting I crosshatch a circle guide I had in my back pack. I laid it on the page, carefully out line it, and fill in with media of your choice. It is really just my own version of a coloring book. Crosshatching though tedious and time consuming can be very meditative and calming.
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| February 17, 2020 |
I make variations on this type of architectural drawing all the time, I find them fun to make and I have a process for creating them that is very systematic. Lately I have been adding shadows to change these drawings up a bit. The conventions of how the shadows fall in an isometric drawing like this are well defined, I'm not sure I was completely accurate in their execution here. The shadow makes the 'buildings' more dramatic and the shape of the shadow has its' own abstract quality.
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| Isometric Drawing 3 |
The last page in a sketchbook can come somewhat randomly. I usually try to begin a new sketchbook right away, which I have done. I am three pages into the next sketchbook already.
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| Another view out my window. |
So this is my first posted sketchbook, and my most recently finished. I did not post every page, there are fifty pages per book and I posted 43. More to follow.
