An excersize in time and space.  This has become a month long side trip while working on a “space station” that my son constructed out of twist ties during a trip to the supermarket one day.  I was exploring possible backgrounds when I got drawn into this little thumbnail.

You never know when something will become so significant to you, moving forward.  I told myself I’d be done with it yesterday, even going so far as to sign it.  However there were some elusive parts of it, particularly the bright light at the center, that I desire to leave with a sense of having conquered it, instead of just moving on.

This picture is composed of dots.  Points of ink with an archival ink pen.  The reference was a picture in a children’s book of knowledge.

I am so close…

Here is the original sketch from my son’s twist tie sculpture.

And some color studies of the subject.

This drawing was done January-June 2007.

I’ve always enjoyed the ideas of  the presence of spirits in trees, water, rocks and anywhere else I look.  Perhaps it is something in me that is brought out in the light when I am drawing.  Look and see what you can experience.  Enjoy.

When I am in the right place and time I become full of a spirit that fills me with a joy and the possibilities of all that can be.  The two dimensional draws me in and I move through a most magical place where I can roam to my hearts content.  Through the myriad curves and swirls of my pen I can see beyond the page and be taken away at once on a journey of spirit.  It is a place where the more you look, the more you see and many things are revealed never even imagined.

This basic design of this picture was first drawn with pencil and then completed with an ink pen on an 11×14 Strathmore drawing paper with a 1 1/4″ border on the side and a 1 1/2″ border on the top and bottom, allowing for some overgrown branches.