For me, drawing is a base constructed with line. And those lines can be constructed from anything. I love to make purposely flat drawing works to be either developed with value, texture, and color later at my leisure or gifted for the new owner to finish. Its not that I cannot draw with traditional tools such as graphite or conte, I just prefer the liquidity of liquid media, flatness and linear works that are collaborative in nature. I love making opportunities for collaborative interactive drawings. I find my drawings to have many elements of intent. For me, the drawing can be a start to later transform. But often I draw linear works I invite others to finish years later. I love my flat work and understand my flat work as samples removes intimidation for students while opening a path to deeper understanding of two dimensional work.

A great example of drawing to remove intimidation is my stick figure information sheet which I include on this page for anyone to use. Stick people are drawn by some of youngest (creatively or chronologically) creative folks and they are a wonderful starting point for figure drawing, simplistic but very welcoming, and often entangled with a sense of humor.

I also like to draw with less familiar media such as twig and ink. I get branches and sharpen them and use India ink to draw with, I include some works here. I also like to use pyrography as a method of drawing and put one of my favorite drawing here. Drawing with burns on maple is challenging and fun!

Drawing is a formative tool interacting with so many other processes of artmaking processes, drawing is needful, necessary, providing many methods of (counter)storytelling. Here is a sample of my work.