“Joe”, 2014, 9″ x 9″, 2B Grumbacher Pentalic Woodless Pencil on Fabriano CFM Ingres 90 gsm acid free paper

This drawing is a result of simple pleasures: sitting outside in the Coffee Bar patio one morning with an excellent caffe latte while sketching my good friend Joe. The simple pleasure of making a sketch from direct observation of a subject, as a opposed to drawing from a photograph, cannot be underestimated. It’s something I encourage everyone to do! In this case part of the pleasure was leaving lots of empty space on the page and deciding when enough was enough…

January, 2014