The Naked Silo

Selections from Sketchbook #29 (2008). These are experimental doodles drawn with flourescent highlighters. I drew in the highlights, leaving the paper alone for the shadows. When tilted at a certain angle, the negative effect is clear, but it wasn't until I photographed these sketches and inverted the colours in Photoshop that I got to see them as I had hoped they'd turn out all those years ago. It's a pretty neat effect! Darth Vader (played by David Prowse) from 1977's Star Wars . Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) also from Star Wars . Commander Adama (played by Lorne Greene) from the 1970s version of Battlestar Galactica . Tron (played by Bruce Boxleitner) from 1982's Tron .

More selections from Sketchbook #29. I like C-3PO . I've been drawing Star Wars imagery since the first movie came out in 1977 when I would have been all of five years old (turning six in October of that year). Preliminary sketches for (abandoned?) puppet show. That's right: I was going to make a William Shatner-as-Kirk hand-and-rod puppet and perform Shakespeare monologues with it. I figured performing this material would be easy, since I could sorta do a passable Shatner impression and memorization* wouldn't be an issue because I could refer to the script while being hidden from view myself. I thought I might take it around to various venues in Prince Edward County, singing for my supper, so to speak...maybe open for real performers... I hadn't (and still haven't) built a puppet of this kind, but once the idea entered my head and I started sketching, I grew more excited about the proposed project. Will it ever happen? Who knows? The night i...

More selections from Sketchbook #29.

Selections from Sketchbook #29. Boba Fett. I was doing a graphic design/photography contract with a shoe store at this time. A good way to avoid boredom and ease tedium is to draw what's in front of you.

Selections from Sketchbook #22 (2003-04). Pencil, pastels, and that's either conté or charcoal pencil for the blacks. Unused preliminary poster design for a friend's production. Sketch of a statue of George Washington in Boston. Live-sketching a cat named Darwin.

15" x 22", watercolour, 2016 I took the photo* this painting is based on while also on horseback, right behind this woman (our guide). It was my first (and, for now, last) time on horseback, but I enjoyed it immensely and I long to get back on the horse...literally and figuratively. Not to be confused with this  crossing , or these two other crossings  (all of which are due for a re-do as oil paintings soon...probably with different names, this time, to minimize the crossings). *Shot while in Banff during the same Wagons West road trip that  this painting  derives from.

More selections from Sketchbook #21. Messing around with a messy charcoal pencil. Obvious song reference.