One year blog anniversary today!

Ink on paper

I realized this afternoon that today marks one year since my first post on this blog. That post included a charcoal drawing of a five year old dancer (below), rendered in a meticulously realistic style. This one here is a funny little drawing I did today in my Moleskin journal while on a conference call. You might say the character of my work has changed a bit over the year.

Might even say the change has been fairly drastic, but I think that stems more from gaps and selectivity in my posting than from any major shifts in my actual art practice. When I look back through my journals and finished work over the past year I can see a gradual and intentional progression from realistic figurative and portrait drawing to the more abstract forms I've been doing these days.

Well, onward and, one hopes, upward. Happy blog day to me!

12x9; charcoal and Conte crayon on paper.
Check out that copyright watermark!
So professional . . .