My spine has an abnormal curvature called kyphosis. I wore this back brace for a couple years as a kid in order to correct my posture.
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 1.15
This was sketched in person while my wife was feeding my newborn daughter. I love that my wife is so experienced and confident in her nurturing nature, and maintains that tenderness that only a mother can provide. I so appreciate getting to be a part of this family and experience moments like this.
In this drawing, I enjoy the charged space of the couch and the way it seems to be emanating from the figure. I also appreciate how very quickly you can describe a volume by using the line to form the contours of the form, notably around the leg and alongside the right side of the couch arm.
What’s visible will sometimes change shape. Look at what is beneath the surface.
I visited the National Gallery of Art this month during a business trip to Washington D.C. where I saw the exhibit In the Tower: Mel Bochner. His paintings were based on wordplay that is aided by a thesaurus to unpack, extrapolate, unravel, and literally tease out the physicality of words. Continue Reading →
I spent some time prepping for a drawing by throwing together this little composite in Photoshop. My goal was to set up the composition, proportions, and setting. However, I thought the mock up turned out pretty interesting all on its own. It’s fascinating how the brain works to creative a narrative in the absence of a pre-existing one, how it must reconcile all that it sees and wrestles to compose a whole, even if there was no original narrative or whole to be conceived of.
I’ve had this concept for an interactive sculpture for some years now. I’m resurrecting the idea from my sketchbook and trying to breathe life back in to it.
This photo collage is a small visual rumination on the concept.
For this sketch, I tried to speed things up and quickly capture proportions and lights and darks. I like the angularity. I view these quick sketches like running back and forth across the basketball court before you actually play the game.
A discipline in any area is something in my power that I do to enable me to do what I cannot do by direct effort.
- Dallas Willard
I reflected on and prayed for this young woman that I sketched. She’s a very bright girl.
This pen and ink sketch was of someone I deeply love and admire. We had a chance to digitally exchange some deep thoughts lately, and those conversations stirred me. Many people call themselves seekers as a cowardly way to avoid closing their open mind on truth. But, sincere seekers have a fire in their belly and brave the cold in pursuit of truth.
He’s sincere.
