Recent Drawings

The Pleasant Street Bridge
sketchbook spread in brown pencil
26 Sept. 2011

The view above was drawn at a time of day when I'm usually home making dinner. Instead of coffee, I had a bottle of beer while I feverishly scribbled. By the end of the session I could hardly see my paper and the streetlights had come on. Deadlines are very useful. Do they help you?

A view of the dam through a fence
colored pencil
25 Sept. 2011

Water milfoil harvesting machine, Lake Waban
colored pencil
22 Sept. 2011

This machine is driven around the shallow places at Lake Waban where the water milfoil, an invasive weed is abundant. It's a scourge everywhere in New England and many ponds and lakes are defenseless against this slimy uninvited party guest. Wellesley College, which has deep pockets and an awareness of the milfoil's threat has invested in this harvester. It's interesting to watch it cruise back and forth in the morning fog like some gentle dinosaur scooping up the weeds.