"Amsterdam by Memory"
2001, ink/watercolor pencil on paper,
9" x
6", collection of Katie Harker
I'd spent the day enjoying the sites via bike tour. I'd gone to Amsterdam for the weekend with friends, one being a US Soldier who'd been given instructions not to leave the hostel as the US had just bombed Afganistan. I made this drawing from memory in the youth hostel.
"From Barcelona Alley" 2004, ink/watercolor on paper, 11.5" x 9"
"Blue Dluga"
2008, ink/watercolor on paper, 4" x
5.5", collection of Heidi Larson
from the street in Gdansk
"A Street Filled with Lonliness"
2000,
ink/watercolor pencil on paper,
9" x
6",
private collection
This is a painting of my favorite street in Gdansk, Poland. From colorful buildings to flocks of pigeons that circled above, Dluga street never ceased to amaze me. With each visit, I soaked in it's beauty, but not without a nostalgic ache for the magical feeling significant to my first trip to the city. I'd probably need a thousand words to explain it all...but the friendships I developed their changed my life...and comforted my heart and soul in a time when I felt very alone.
"Ships by Gdansk" 2000, ink/watercolor on paper, 9" x 6", collection of Batista Simpson
"Playa Del Rey"
2004, ink/watercolor on paper, 9.5" x
12",collection of Verona Larson
I had such an amusing day attempting to make this sketch, which took two separate trips because I met so many random people. I ended up sketching portrait after portrait for members of a nearby family picnic. A man even joined me with an out of tune version of La Cooka Rocha on his violin and gifted me a small dirty Piglet stuffed animal. I laughed a lot that day.
"Beijing Rooftops"
2001, ink/watercolor pencil on paper, 4" x
5"
collection of Lexi Jourden
from the steps of a little Chinese shop, I waited while my friends shopped
"Temple of Heaven" 2001, ink/watercolor pencil on paper, 5" x 4"
"Summer Palace of Empress Xixi"
2001, ink/watercolor pencil on paper, 9" x
6", private collection
I developed a fascinaton with Empress Xixi when I learned that every year on her birthday she would set free 10,000 caged birds...Apparently she also locked her son in a part of the palace called the the jade corridors for ten years.
"Tianamen Square" 2001, ink/watercolor on paper, 5" x 4", unknown collection