7/29/25 draw-lage, 11.5x14.5” drawing & collage on strathmore 500 bristol as she looked at the end of my painting day
2:35 PM: i made up draw-lage to indicate that this is a drawing using colored pencil and crayons, with collaged elements. i was moved this morning to take a piece of strathmore bristol 500 to create this 11 1/2x 14 1/2” piece. the thickness of the bristol allowed me to collage freely with wrinkling, as a thinner paper would have. included in the collaged elements is a cut up ‘90’s drawing i made and abandoned, which i found in my large pile of works on paper.
some pieces of collaged paper contain gestural marks using a fan brush dipped in black ink.
my work table as it looked following work on the collage
the san luis valley, 1997, 4.5x10.5”, gouache on paper, painted in my car one afternoon
12:17 PM: this 4 1/2 x 10 1/2” gouache on paper was painted in 1997. during that period i would drive out to various spots in our san luis valley and make little studies in gouache or watercolor while sitting in the car. this is one of them.