Formula For Drawing

Who says you can't draw by using a formula?  Mine consists of six easy steps anyone can do: 1. Have pencil and sketchpad. 2. If indoors, sit in random chair. 3. Make sure pencil is sharp.  4. If not, sharpen pencil. 5. Look up.  6. Start to draw what you see.  Repeat steps 3 and 4 as required.  9x12 inches, pencil on paper.  

From The Rocking Chair

If we placed the last three studio drawings side-by-side, we'd have a panoramic view of the studio from the rocking chair.  For this third drawing, I looked more to the left.  12x9 inches, pencil on paper.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

This is the fifth studio chair painting, another 20x16 oil on multimedia board.  I started doing these paintings after I looked around the studio for Morandi type still life bottles and tins.  All I saw were chairs.  But unlike Morandi, I don't think I'm going to paint chairs for the rest of my life.  You may notice the pipe.  I put it there both for Vincent and Thor.  The painter Thor Wickstrom noticed that the pipe was missing from the previous chair done in homage to Vincent.

This Is Not a Chair

A 20x16 oil on multimedia board painting of another chair in the studio.

Homage to Van Gogh

Probably I should entitle this post "Homage to Vincent" since he used his first name to sign his painting of the chair in his room at Arles.  This is my third studio chair painting,  a 20 x 16 oil on multimedia board.  It's also an "as found" painting.  Vincent, you're welcome to come in, take a seat, and rest a while.