A Person, Artist, Software Engineer, Geologist.

Early on I bought a book by Austin Kleon - "Steal Like an Artist".  Since then I had also bought another of his books - "Show Your Work!" and I've taken it to heart.   This drawing is of a "Sinclair" gas station in Summit county close to where my son owns a couple of lots.  It's an old timey type of station where the pumps don't match, the building old but with a unique style and there is a "real" Sinclair dinosaur on the roof.  Just one of those sights on a back county road trip. So here it is in a drawing.  My drawing is rough, simplistic and has an illustration type style to it, done only in grays.  When I first started these, I thought they where next but I didn't feel they were "Art" as it was the style I could do.   But I showed my work to others. I thought the response would be that they where nice but simplistic (they are) but art?  I didn't know.  I had fear (read the book - Art and Fear) that they where jus...

Mostly it's barns and mines, but today it's a light house somewhere in the northeast.  It's a little different as it's more of a setting rather than a single building.   I could continue to do barns and mines (not done with mines quite yet) till the cows come home but I'm looking for other subjects.  I've taken a number of photos of "other" objects, landscapes, etc. that I'm interested in and drawing those.   Not so easy to change a bit as change is always different.  Different == Scary, but not always.  I just need to do it and move on.  Not really moving aways from my drawing just learning more.  More is different more is fun more is ..... There are a number of drawings and studies that I've done that I've not posted.  They are for myself, my practice and understanding.  Not for public consumption, thus no posting.  I'd rather not display my learning steps and failures (yet I know, Art have no failures but it sure feels like it to...

I don't always (well maybe never) have interesting posts but I try to come up with something if only to show my latest drawing. This latest drawing part of my "Mine" series from the Park City, Utah area.  This is labeled "Master Control" as it's part of an (?) electrical panel in an old mine building.  It's been stripped of parts long ago with only some panels remaining that have been adorned with "local color".  Still an interesting subject for a drawing. On a different topic, I go back and forth between drawing, watercolor and different styles.  Still looking for another style that I can explore and like (and others like too).  I need to bounce some of my artwork off of others to validate a path I'm exploring.  Most times I don't as I know what I've just done is working or not, so it's only the ones that pass the "me" test do I show others. Winter is finally arriving and that limits the hiking / fishing days as the t...