Labor Day 2023 Two drawings: one labored, the other belabored.

Collage

Three more in a series of current drawings continuing my explorations of peculiar decorative styles and forms while making them particular to me.

Edward Fella (b. 1938), Self Portrait as the Clean Out Your Paint Brushes Blue Man Gorilla Glue Cookie Art Monster, 2023, 6 x 7 inches, Acrylic on Bristol Board, Courtesy of the artist.

The sidewalk sideway face that stopped the passing parade.

Two consecutive drawings: one drawn with my color pencils and the other a collage made from cut up, rearranged bits and pieces, of a found child’s drawing.

Collage with drawing and drawing collage

A drawing and a drawing/collage, one day apart and in the purple, 2023

Same drawing, two stages: the first (top) is when I probably should have stopped, signed it, scanned it, and filed it away into my binder of completed drawings. But then, unsure, I continued with some additions and turned it the other way round to this, now the final version (below). Maybe sometimes quit while you’re ahead ?

A new collage added to my continued combining of found at-large printed elements and paper scraps with my own at-hoc marks and drawings.