Friday, June 27, 2014

Sunday, June 22, 2014

...before a fall



Drawn from life at a Keyhole Session in Toronto, Ontario, with various Copic markers.

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Transitory things

A snapshot of a drawing still in progress, to be titled Alles Vergāngliche ist nur ein Gleichnis (Everything impermanent is but a parable). It's a line from Goethe's Faust, but it appears in a number of places, not least the tombstone of Max Weber, the great theorist of early capitalism.

The drawing depicts a confrontation between two characters, perhaps of a spiritual or metaphysical nature, that is nonetheless taking place in a setting redolent of advanced materialism.



Friday, June 13, 2014

out of the Aldo



 

Romney and I were in Italy, in the Museo di Arte Contemporanea.

We were marvelling at the indigenous talent when we saw this half naked young woman engaged in study of an Aldo Salvadori painting.  She looked over at us and we were both struck as if she had walked out of the very picture.

This was some time ago.  I have drawn her from memory.


Monday, June 9, 2014

the orator



Drawn from life at a Keyhole Session in Toronto, Ontario, with various markers and crayons.