4B Or Not 4B

I have been participating in David Barranti's drawing class all this week in Cloudcroft, New Mexico.  His challenge to us is to find out how many marks are in a 4B pencil, alone, for the whole week.  We have done modified contour, free style drawing, blind contour, vase-face, combinations of all and varieties of tonal drawing, all with one 4B pencil.  It's really liberating and informing!  Can't wait to see what else I can do with a 4B pencil!

I'll try to post a drawing or two in the next day or so.

Wild Roses

The wild roses have been fabulous this year in the mountains!  Here is a study that I did last week in an effort to express the *pow* of pink that they give me!  (6x6 oil/canvas)


Mark Overby says, “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”