Recent Sketches

These are two pieces I've been working on lately. The top one is a 3x3' conte crayon drawing of two sows in gestation crates... And the lower one is the underpainting for a portrait of young Condeleezza Rice, done with charcoal dust and turpentine on the canvas. That's a great, great way to do underpaintings by the way - pretty & expressive, and - once dry - erasable! Very cool.