sketchbook

(5 works)

pencil drawing of a child asleep with their head turned into a pillow, hair worked in heavy hatching above a barely drawn shoulder and hand

Sleeping Child

Portraits

Graphite and colored pencil on paper • 2020

pencil drawing of a hooded woman holding an infant against her shoulder, both faces close together over densely hatched cloth

Mother and Child

blue colored pencil and graphite drawing of a woman in a soft bonnet turned three-quarters toward the viewer, the face shaded in fine blue hatching

Woman in a Bonnet

pencil drawing of a seated man hunched under a wide-brimmed hat, his face lost in shadow, a pale bowl on the table before him

Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat

pencil drawing of a figure in a feathered headdress and shell breastplate holding a starred banner on a long staff, a small child standing at their side

Standard Bearer

Ceremonial

Graphite and colored pencil on paper • 2020

graphite and colored pencil drawing on cream paper of a dancer in an antlered headdress striding forward with a staff, red and blue marks scattered above the raised hand

Antlered Dancer

Centaur with Lance

Centaur and Monument

Graphite on paper • 2020

pencil drawing of a small dark rider halted on an empty plain before a faceted rock monument floating above the horizon

Rider before the Monument

pencil drawing of a bison inverted in mid-fall, legs splayed upward and the head massed in heavy shadow

Falling Bison

fine-line drawing of a long-haired rider twisting in the saddle with a pistol raised, the horse's head dropping hard to the right

Warrior with Pistol

Riders

Graphite and ink on paper • 2020

fine-line drawing of a rider in a forage cap coming straight at the viewer with a rifle across the saddle, the horse's head lowered

Rider with Rifle

pencil drawing of a horse at full stride with its head thrown back, the rider reduced to a hatched silhouette behind

Charging Horse

faint pencil drawing of a mounted officer standing square to the viewer, the head and shoulders worked up in dark hatching while the horse stays open contour

Cavalry Officer

small pencil drawing of an officer in a bicorne hat mounted on a pale horse, standing on a lightly ruled rectangle of ground

Officer on a Grey

Meadowlark and Eagle

Graphite on paper • 2020

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