During our recent move, I came across three ink paintings that I completed about fifteen years ago.  They were stark elegant pieces that really stuck in my mind.  I painted them on the side of the road while driving across the country.  And seeing them recently reminded me of how lively and haunting art can be when it is created in the moment.  So I set out to create new images with that same feeling.  This piece is one of my very first attempts at ink painting since those pieces from way back when.  It is clumsy and crude in places.  It is a rough sketch.  But it also has a great playful dreamlike quality to it.

Because I am so rusty at ink painting, it is a media that feels foreign to me.  I was not comfortable with the black and gray and white images that resulted.  I felt they needed color, so I went back into them with oil pastels and gave them the attention they needed to mature more fully.  Eventually, I would like to get to the point where the black ink alone is enough.

How Driving was created.....   This piece began as a freehand ink painting on heavy acid-free watercolor paper.  I painted this image while parked on the side of the road along a rural county highway in Minnesota.  Once I got home, I used oil pastels to give the painting depth and light.  The oil pastels are more heavily layers in some areas than in others.  The strong sense of light and shadow seen in this image come from the underlying ink painting.

Driving was painted on an acid-free white mat board.  You will want to frame this piece to protect your investment.  One affordable way to frame this unique drawing would be to purchase a standard-sized 11" x 14" frame at your local home store and then bring the frame and the drawing together to a custom-framer.  Ask the framer to mat the drawing to fit the frame.  That would give you a decent sized mat border on all sides and would allow for a lovely presentation of your new drawing.

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