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“Estelle and Morton” 52 x 74.5 inches drawing in 5 ink colors on panel
Morton & Estelle at home with Oldenburg shuttlecock maquette (click to visit Nelson-Atkins Museum bio) After Mom died, Dad moved back to Kansas City from Aspen where he’d lived since the late...
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“Carrie Americana” 80 x 52 inches drawing
In January, 2014 my then studio assistant, Carrie Riehl, walked in one morning wearing shorts (in January?) and showing off her new 2nd hand red, white, and blue leather jacket and I said, “let’s go...
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“Sniffing Armpit” 40 x 27 inches machine drawing & archival print
In late May and early June I produced a 40 x 27 inch drawing in black and white ink pen on paper I’d painted gray. The drawing is of Carrie, Johanna, and Ross standing on my platform and I’ve always...
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Several large watery landscape drawings output as archival prints
I also generated machine drawing toolpaths for several watery landscapes which Dolphin Printing output as archival prints.
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First textual drawings
I spent a few months working out a kind of self-referential process I had in mind. The idea I had was to build images from text. The first step was to code general subroutines to draw text characters...
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The code that moves the pen makes the image…
I had this confusing idea about somehow showing my code in a drawing. The drawing would be a self-portrait and the text that piled up to communicate the image would be the code that the pen followed...
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Wow Mom and other textual drawings
My mother was born January 7, 1931 and died May 5, 2013 at 82. She and Dad had been married since she was 18 and he 25. Her quality of life had been declining for seven or eight years due to a...
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Leone and Megan
In 2015, Megan Mantia and Leone Reeves were performance artists in Kansas City (later in Los Angeles). I’d done some CNC routing to make huge letters for a project of theirs. They’d agreed to model...
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Kelsey
Kelsey Wroten is an amazing illustrator and graphic novelist. Originally from Kansas City, Kelsey now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. This portrait exists in two versions; first a pen and ink drawing...
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What if Christ died of natural causes?
Having considered the act of creation through coding various processes to draw and paint, then documenting my code in my own image (see The code that moves the pen makes the image…), I’d been thinking...
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Dad and Linda: first small AxiDraw drawings
AxiDraw V3 The AxiDraw is a simple, precise, and versatile pen plotter, capable of writing or drawing on almost any flat surface. It can write with fountain pens, permanent markers, and many other...
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Linda
This drawing was made on a full sheet of Rives BFK Black paper, using white ink and the AxiDraw. The image area is 11 x 8 inches, more or less centered in the sheet. I like the big black space and how...
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Peregrine Bunny
For several months I’d been immersed in a large commission piece for a very large corporation. It was a big project and was required to sign an NDA / non-disclosure agreement. There was a lot of back...
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32 Small drawings with characters
July through November of 2018 I made a slew of small drawings in ink on paper using the two AxiDraw machines. From time to time as I work, I’ll edit and modify my program code so that the way I...
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Large drawing (Hal) with nested squares
One issue with my simple drawing tools is that, for the most part, the mark produced is uniform in width and color (one exception is a brush. The brush can be pushed into the surface to make a thicker...
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Small drawings with square spirals
Why spirals? Because I can vary the density of my lines in any area without cross-hatching and without lifting the pen. This lends itself to the kind of repeating procedures (program) I’ve been...
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“Elena” life size pen and ink drawing
This was a long LONG process. Large drawings like this always take a long time, but this one took about a month of more or less continuous drawing. Aerialist, Elena Sherman, daughter of my friend,...
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Sinjun drawing 50 x 34 inches
The fabulous photographer, Sinjun Strom, Minnesota native, was a student at the Kansas City Art Institute when she agreed to model for me. Not long after, she moved to New York to complete her Fine...
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Allyson 46 x 25
Drawing designed in 60 layers of colored ink lines but output via large format pigment printer rather than pen and ink. “Allyson” 2015 46 x 25 inches, archival pigment print on heavy paper
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Untitled self portrait: edition of 17 drawings
My untitled self portrait for a print exchange exhibited at Southern Graphics Council 2019 in Dallas. Description of processes A print is an image made from a matrix. The matrix is typically an...
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