Today I am primarily a Sculptor. But when I started out as a child in the early 1950’s through high school, I was an artist. Amazingly, there was an Art program at Amarillo High School , in Amarillo Texas, where I went. I was mostly doing drawings and painting, but was an Art Major in high school. My drawings were very conservative renderings usually of black and white from photos of my brothers and our bulldog “Spike”. Through the years that practice has evolved as you will see here.
These are a samples of my work in Printmaking and Drawing after I became a “Sculptor”. The prints are generally overlaid “collages” of my three dimensional “sculpture” work. The prints here were made in the early 2000’s at the Donkey Mill Art Center in Kailua Kona Hawaii. I worked with master printers Hiroki Morinoue and Jeera Ratanangkoon there.
The next images you will find are “erased charcoal drawings” completed during the early 2000’s. They were generally done in my studio in San Antonio Texas. They were usually studies in form, since I made them in preparation for making the three dimensional cast bronze and cast iron “masks”. The erased charcoal technique is very similar to actually “Carving”. First you coat a sheet of paper with charcoal, then you erase out the form. I used these drawings to plan the “carving” for the three dimensional forms in my work.
The last series are drawings on $1 Bills in 2004. These were related to the sculptural work I had done and covered I $ Bills. I guess they are sort of “echoes” of their three dimensional forms.
