DRAWINGS
Travel
Ramses The great
Pencil // 5.5" x 8" // 2009 // Memphis, Egypt
Near the Sphinx in the Memphis Museum is the Colossus of Ramses II, who died approx. 3,200 years ago.
Horemheb
Pencil // 5.25" x 5.25" // 2009 // Luxor, Egypt
Kneeling before the god Atum.
waterfall
Pencil // 11" x 14" // 2002 // Costa Rica
God of the Sea
Pencil // 4" x 6" // 2007 // Vietnam
Two views of the androgynous God of the Sea, which is located in Hoi An.
Hatshepsut Sphinx
Pencil // 8.25" x 5.25" // 2009 // Memphis, Egypt
Smaller than its more famous big brother at Giza, this Sphinx is still about 50 feet long and in far better condition. In Egypt, I was constantly amazed by the quality of larger than life sculptures 1000 years and more before the Greeks arrived.
Workers Tombs
Pencil // 7" x 3.5" // 2009 // Egypt
Sunset Kerela
Pencil // 6.25" x 4.5" // 2004 // India
“Like all great travelers,
I have seen more
than I remember
and remember
more than
I have seen.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
Thanh Playing Co
Pencil // 4" x 6" // 2007 // Vietnam
One day we crossed the rain-swollen river, went by hand-rowed skiff, and hiked to Quoi An village. The musician is one of several villagers playing native instruments.
Buddha at Wat Mai
Pencil // 5" x 9" // 2005 // Luang Prabang, Laos
In Luong Prabang, Laos, two figures are a study in contrasts. Above, a serene Buddha is squirreled away behind the main shrine at the city’s largest temple. The fierce figure below sits outside the Second Temple.
Pencil // 5" x 9" // 2005 // Luang Prabang, Laos
Horses at San Marco
Pencil // 10" x 6.5" // 2004 // Italy
The four horses were formerly on the façade but now are displayed in an upper story of the Cathedral San Marco in Venice.
Bagan, late afternoon
Pencil // 6" x 4" // 2005 // Myanmar
El Jaleo
Pencil // 14" x 11" // 2008 // Boston, MA
At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum hangs John Singer Sargent’s gigantic El Jaleo. You can feel the rhythm, the music. Sargent painted the wealthy society figures of his day and was an extraordinary watercolorist as well.
Aged Man and Woman
Pencil // 7.5" x 4.5" // 2004 // Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo
One of over two hundred life size sculptures by Gustav Vigeland in this park in Oslo.
Tumblers
Pencil // 6.25" x 10" // 2010 // Ca Rezzonico, Venice
A whimsical work by Giandomenico Tiepolo. A work by his more famous father is below.
Man Looking Up
Pencil // 8" x 7.5" // 2008 // Los Angeles
By Giovanni Battista Tiepolo at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles
musicians
Antonius
Pencil // 4" x 6" // 2011 // Santorini, Greece
Silvio at Guirito
Pencil // 5.5" x 8.5" // 2013 // Cuba
Silvio is playing Son Cubano, a form of Afro-Cuban music, which led to salsa and Cuban jazz.
Flautist
Pencil // 5.5" x 8.5" // 2013 // Cuba
Bass Player
Pencil // 6" x 5.25" // 2005 // Eugene, Oregon
Jazz musician at a Fourth of July celebration in a park in Eugene.
Michaelis
Pencil // 4" x 6" // 2011 // Santorini, Greece
“On Santorini, near the village of Oia, is Santorini Mou, our go-to place for music and entertainment. Michaelis, a larger-than-life presence, is accompanied by Antonius and Giannis.”
“God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
cellist at Buena Vista Social Club
Pencil // 5.5" x 8.5" // 2013 // Cuba
The noted Cuban jazz ensemble: Buena Vista Social Club.
Carl Woideck
Pencil // 5.25" x 6" // 2005 // Eugene, Oregon
Carl Woideck lecturers on jazz. A professional saxophonist, he teaches jazz, rock, and blues at the University of Oregon.
Giannnis
Pencil // 4" x 6" // 2011 // Santorini, Greece
Ventura at Guirito
Pencil // 5.5" x 8.5" // 2013 // Cuba
Ventura and Silvio played duets at Guirito, the birthplace of Son Cubano.
Saxophonist
Pencil // 5.5" x 8.5" // 2013 // Cuba
Alan Fanigian
Pencil // 5.25" x 6" // 2005 // Eugene, Oregon
Drummer at Fourth of July celebration in Eugene.
Melissa Holding Plays Koto
Pencil // 11" x 9" // 2000 // Japan
At a dinner the last night of our stay in the great and ancient city of Kyoto.
Mark Bell
Pencil // 11" x 13" // 2002 // Lark in the Morning, Mendocino, CA
Each summer, Mendocino hosts a two-week international folk music festival. The town sits on a point of land that juts into the Pacific. The vibe is from the Seventies.
A Passing Parade
Man on Glasgow Train
Pencil // 5.5" x 9" // 2000 // Scotland
Of the Scotland sketches, the man on the Glasgow train stands out. An excellent likeness – the face, hands and gesture.
Café at Boboli Gardens
Pencil // 5.5" x 8.5" // 2021 // Florence, Italy
An extraordinary face in a café at the foot of the Pitti Palace adjacent to the Boboli Gardens.
Captain Kalim at Aswan
Pencil // 14" x 11" // 2009 // Aswan, Egypt
Captain Kalim, our skipper at Aswan, is at the helm in the center. At first, he was very self-conscious. Ultimately, we got to be friends, and he posed twice.
Buddhist Nun
Pencil // 4" x 6" // 2006 // Myanmar
This young nun lives near a remote military outpost, that seemed unsettlingly close to me. If she felt at all disturbed, it did not show.
Girl on Train to Rovereto
Pencil // 4.5" x 6.5" // 2004 // Italy
Enroute by train from Venice to meet Giovanna Mier, widow of my best friend in graduate school, Erich Mier, I saw this young woman lost in thought.
Ship's Purser
Pencil // 4.25" x 7" // 2004 // Norway
On a cruise from the northern tip of Norway to Bergen, the ship’s purser gives an orientation lecture. He has a certain “buttoned-down” quality.
Chloe on zodiak
Pencil with watercolor // 8" x 14" // 1999 // Antarctica
Chloe, a young passenger on our Antarctic trip, is bobbing in a zodiac prior to making a landing.
BRahma Bull
Pencil // 6" x 9" // 2004 // India
Girl on Bus
Pencil // 4.25" x 7" // 2004 // Helsinki, Finland
Returning to Helsinki, I saw this woman on the public bus-ride from a museum island. After I got off, I discovered I had lost my wallet, raced back to the bus terminal and found my bulging wallet on the floor of the bus with contents intact.
Bayway Eatery
Pencil // 5.25" x 6" // 2006 // Nehalem, OR
At a rest stop for locals and truckers, a man quietly sips his morning coffee. Flowerpots outside hang from the trellis. A favorite sketch, full of light.
Fado Singer
Pencil // 3" x 3" // 2008 // Lisbon
Fado is fate. The expression of the woman speaks for itself. The setting is A Baiuca, a small cafe in the Alfama district of Lisbon.
Pammy Mahindroo
Pencil // 11 x 14" // 2004 // Delhi, India
Our flight was delayed by fog at the Delhi Airport, where I met Pammy Mahindroo, a Sikh, and an imposing figure. While I was trying to figure out how to do a surreptitious sketch of him, he approached and challenged me to draw him. This is the result.