Drawings from Life

Before Lyle Walks the Dogs, the majority of my drawings were abstract. But I took so many urban photographs for the book that I got very caught up in the visual rhythms and colors of the city. Seeing an exhibition of the paintings of Rudy Burckhardt was a particular inspiration. I fell in love with the way some of his paintings zeroed in on the smallest details of urban landscape. His painting of a manhole is wonderful.

Most of my drawings are done in some combination of marker, watercolor, and pencil on bristol paper. I like working small. I love building layers of color and find the monotony of small pencil strokes soothing. A few drawings are digital. I've used Adobe Ideas thus far.

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