P O S T S C R I P T A R T S T U D I O S

The majority of my career was spent as an art director and graphic designer but I have a passion for drawing. It's having my hand in the work...the human element is soul of art itself. There's a craftsmanship involved when creating a piece with your hands that I value and respect. My drawings in pen and ink and pencils focus on themes revolving around the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia where I was born and never left. It's a wonderful and awe-filled landscape that becomes a part of who you are. My detailed stipple drawings in pen and ink involve applying individual dots of ink, one at a time, with a fine point technical drawing pen. The dots are used then to create the values and areas of shading in the drawing. My work is inspired by a beautiful scenic river one day, or something much more mundane like an rusty old truck the next. In the end, the technique requires many hours of drawing time, many of my drawings take 40 hours or more to complete but the technique creates a wonderful texture and allows me to capture subtle details, textures, and contrasts. I hope my work will afford the viewer an opportunity for a nostalgic "inner grin" and moment of wonder at the complexity of the technique itself.