During the cold winter months, I take a different tact with my art. The shop is big, and takes a lot of wood to keep warm. So, I move my operation to a studio in the musuem. I have never been particularly comfortable with color, but I love to draw. The contrast of the jet black ink against the stark white of the paper has an appeal. Below are some of the works that I have done.
Raven
Springtime In Montana
There is a blue heron rookery a few miles from my home. Last year, as I was driving by, I saw a heron standing in a nest, braced against an early spring blizzard. |
Mayfly
Evening Hatch, Youngs Creek
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A Work In Progress
My partner's granddaughter, and her brother, when they were little, would sit for hours while I drew them pictures of dragons, dinosaurs, and anything they could dream up. When we found out that she was expecting, I thought of her child as a little dragon, not quite done, a work in progress. This drawing came from those thoughts; it is not finished, a work in progress. |
Retired-Beaverslide
For decades, a common way to 'put up hay'-pile the hay to store until winter feeding-was using a beaverslide. Invented in the Big Hole Valley of SW Montana, it was the icon of hayfields everywhere. The round baler began to replace it, and the venerable old structures were dragged to the edge of the fields and left. They are slowly falling to pieces, but they are still seen, often with a hawk sitting on the crossbar. |