I saw a grand tree in Auroville, India in February, 2017. The tree was wide and deeply hung to the earth, but also split open with its womb and breath vessels twisted and exposed. Inspired by the photograph I took, which showed off its naked soul, I did a drawing and as the drawing evolved,…
On Day 6, we decided we could no longer recycle our clothes; we had to find a laundromat because it was just ridiculously expensive to have the hotel do our laundry. We googled and found one conveniently located near to the old town of Tavira. I had quality time to shop while Steve noodled on…
This 4×4″ pen and ink drawing is based on an amphora I had seen in the Archaeological Museum in Rhodes way back in 2016. I recently came across the postcard I had purchased and fell in love with the stag, the simplicity of the lines, the sense of movement and the abstract element reflected in…
This 8×8″ collage is a thank you note to flowers, because they are foremost fun to draw and second fun to study.
We left Alvor on Tuesday November 16 to spend the day in Faro, the capital of the Algarve. We entered the “cidade velha”, underneath the imposing arch that acts as an usher for the the narrow cobbled streets and heavy hinged doors that characterize the medieval essence of the old town, all of which is…
On our third day in Portugal, we departed Lisboa to start the journey south to the Algarve. It was about a 3 hour drive and we took the coastal route through the Arrabida National Park. The park is a natural forest where the shapes, sizes, and textures of the trees, their branches, limbs and twigs…
