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DANCE OF THE CRANES
50" X 77" collage, ink, charcoal, and pastel 2015
Cranescape Series
A Houston transplant, I am fortunate to find myself living in a major US city.
I grew up in a small, poor border community and seeing a skyline of construction cranes is “emotionally inspiring to me – a symbol of opportunity”. I drew the four monumental pieces in the series the spring/summer of 2015.
This past year while traveling I noticed that Miami, Washington DC, Dallas, Ft. Worth, and New York City all have skylines filled with construction cranes. With a bit of research I learned that the US is experiencing a construction boom.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2016/02/10/building-boom-towns-the-metro-areas-with-the-most-new-construction/#e0dba195a5e0
My cranescapes record this moment in US economic history ($469.5 billion in construction starts in 2015).
Each piece in the series is monumental in size
SUNRISE CRANES
9'6" X 8' pastels, ink, and charcoal 2015
CONDENSATION AND CRANES
60" X 50" charcoal, ink, and pastel 2015
RAINY DAY CRANES, HOUSTON 2015
50" X 64" charcoal, ink and pastel 2015
CRANES AT FIRST LIGHT
50" X 60" collage,ink, charcoal and pastels 2016
MURMUR OF THE WATER
79" X 50" paint, ink, and pastels on stonehenge 2015
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE I
30" X 22" charcoal, ink and bubbles 2015
Easter of 2015 - grateful to have both kids in town we decided to go to the Buffalo Bayou Dog Park - all of us. My son Griffin took a slow mo video of our elderly Labrador Kitty. Kitty loved the dog park and would retrieve tennis balls from the pond like she was a two-year-old pup. She would consistently drop the ball at your feet and as you would bend over to pick it up shake all the water off her coat right on to all those standing near by. My son’s video inspired my “shake shake shake” series.
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE II
30" X 22" charcoal, ink, and bubbles 2015
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE III
30"X 22" charcoal, ink, and bubbles 2015
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE IV
30" X 22" charcoal, ink, and bubbles 2015
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE V
30" X 22" charcoal, ink and bubbles 2015
MOOOVE
4' X 6' charcoal, ink pastels, 2015
DRAGONFLY I
4' X 5' charcoal, ink 2015
SAGE AND SPARROW REUNION 2013 IN NYC
22" X 30" charcoal, and ink 2015
FOCUSED ON THE FINISH
6' X 7' charcoal, ink and pastel 2015
BOUNDARIES
6'6"X 8' charcoal, pastel and ink 2015
THE ROAD TO SAN MIGUEL I - behind the costalas sillas
22" X 30" charcoal, pastel and ink 2015
ON THE ROAD TO SAN MIGUEL II, BUENOS DIAZ - behind the costales sillas
85" x 50" collage, charcoal, ink, and pastel 2015
ON THE ROAD TO SAN MIGUEL III - extrano burro
50" X 60" charcoal, ink and pastel 2015
THE SHADOW OF THE TEXAS RANGERS LATE 1920'S
22" X 30" charcoal and pastel 2015
"The Shadow of the Texas Rangers - late 1920's" The Texas Rangers in Fabens, Texas (a suburb of El Paso) This drawing is from an old photo my grandparents gave me. The shadows were really bad but I always loved the photo. These Texas Rangers used to board with my grand parents when they would go to the Texas/Mexico border during prohibition. My father remembers the Texas Rangers staying with them and going with his father to the edge of the Rio Grande River and leaving money under a rock. The next day someone from Mexico would wade across the river on a mule get the money and leave bottles of booze in a hole under the rock. This is where the term mule came from.
THE DARK SIDE - FOUR TEXAS RANGERS LATE 1920'S
70" X 50" charcoal an ink 2015
COMB HERE I
30" X 22" charcoal, ink and pastel 2015
Comb Here
This piece is inspired by an out of focus photo I took in 1993. My father stopped by my home as I was taking my son’s Easter photo. To make sure every hair was in place my father of little hair whipped out the comb he always carried in his shirt pocket. The quality of the photo was poor but the moment was priceless.
RADIANT HAPPINESS - Sage graduation 2013
30" X 22" ink, charcoal and pastel on stonehenge 2015
