MARCH 24,2023. MY BLACK BOOKS always start with a self portrait done from memory. Double page spread from a 9X6 inch sketchbook. Done with a selection of fountain pen inks and pens.
2023, November 19. Character studies.
2023, November 22. The Gathering.
2023, August 27, 2023, Pool side Venus
2023, JUNE 23, Natural gas.
MAY 27,2023, Todays cast of characters and the study of Capillary action.
APRIL 22, 2023. A relic from the past, a FORD Fairlane. Double page spread from a 8X12 inch sketchbook. Done with a selection of fountain pen inks and pens.
APRIL 13, 2023. Easter with the Mancuso family. Double page spread from a 8X12 inch sketchbook. Done with a selection of fountain pen inks and pens.
APRIL 7, 2023. Easter with the Mancuso family. Double page spread from a 8X12 inch sketchbook. Done with a selection of fountain pen inks and pens.
APRIL 9, 2023. Easter with the Mancuso family. Double page spread from a 8X12 inch sketchbook. Done with a selection of fountain pen inks and pens.
MARCH 4, 2023, FAMILY GATHERING
MARCH 2, 2023. Size is 6X9 inches. Parking Lots and Car studies in fountain ink.
MARCH 1, 2023, My father is dying, Giacomin won no cups and the joy of old school V8 Muscle. Double page spread from a 9X6 inch sketchbook. Done with a selection of fountain pen inks and pens.
FEBRUARY 27, 2023. Size is 6X9 inches. GOYA, the Black paintings in fountain pen ink.
FEBRUARY 26, 2023. Size is 6X9 inches. WESTERNS in fountain pen ink.
FEBUARY 20,2023, FACE to FACE, Size is 6X9 inches.
FEBRUARY 17, 2023. Size is 6X9 inches. Sacred Goalies studies in fountain ink.
FEBRUARY 13, 2023. Size is 6X9 inches. WESTERNS in fountain pen ink.
FEBRUARY 7, 2023. Size is 6X9 inches. FORTINO,
DECEMBER 10, 2022,
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022, THE BAND PALYED ON, dear friend and artist Wallace Edwards passes away.
AUGUST 25, 2022.
Double page spread from a 8.75X5.5 inch sketchbook. Done with a selection of fountain pen inks and pens
AUGUST 3, 2022
JANUARY 31, 2022, FACE TO FACE, The human face, the most important image we every experience.
AUGUST 23, 2022
2021, NARCO
The drawings you see here are pages from my personal sketch books, in effect my visual diaries. It is a daily practice which creates a flow and ease with drawing. By design, it allows me the immediacy of translating anything I think of into an image. A discipline I have exercised everyday for 37 years.
It places drawing and the use of line at the center of my art practice. It is from here that everything else springs. At its most formal it is simply intersecting lines of width, height and depth over and over again. In its most romantic form it is expressionistic symbolism drawn from a life lived, a life learned and a life imagined. What is important to me is that the learned past, the experienced present and the imagined future are represented in the pages of MY BLACK BOOKS.