Artists Of Texas Contemporary Paintings and Art

This drawing started out as a gesture sketch from life at a dance, then I just filled it in with vine charcoal and the occasional swipe of my kneaded eraser.  Really, it is like the silhouette drawing exercise, which I think is so effective for showing each part of the figure in relation to everything else.  Charcoal on pastel paper, 12 x 9".  To see more of my artwork, please click here to visit my blog at Hackberry Street Studio.

This drawing is one that I did at a rodeo (albeit a total shorthand version that only I could decipher) and then worked over it loosely with ink and water-soluble pencil.  I thought this bull rider was about to bite the dust, but then he righted himself and lasted for eight.  This one is on 6 x 6" Bristol paper.  To see more of my artwork, please click  here  to visit my blog.

This drawing is done with vine charcoal, mostly using the side of the stick - on 14 x 11" drawing paper.  To see more of my artwork, click here to visit my daily painter's blog.

I drew with a 512EF bowl dip nib and then applied water.  I love the way these kinds of nibs make contact with the paper.  They don't move smoothly like ballpoints and they sort of 'catch' every now and then, which I think gives an interesting look.   Now I'm not saying the lines in  this  sketch are interesting, since I pretty much covered them up with water, but the nibs  can  and  do  provide these textures most of the time.  This sketch is on 12 x 9" mixed media paper.  To see more of my artwork, please click here to visit my daily painters blog, Hackberry Street Studio.