Machine: Odyssey Drypoint Etching

Machine: Odyssey (variation IV)

[Drypoint etching, artist's proof]

A sketch based on a painting by Raphael became this drypoint

etching which in turn became a 5x7 foot wall painting

Jane McGowen as Greta Garbo

Jane McGowen as Greta Garbo

[pencil on paper]

My girlfriend at the time looked enough like Garbo

to give me the idea for this combination portrait

Test Pattern

Test Pattern

[pencil on watercolor paper]

This was intended to be a watercolor painting, but

I never went back and painted over the drawing

Street People II

Street People II, Athens, Ga.

[ink on paper]

When I talked to these guys, they had the same story:

Lost their job, the wife left with the kids,

they were now homeless and penniless

This was an era well before "corporate outsourcing"

of American jobs to Asia, and massive layoffs,

short-term profits for long-term destruction

of the nation

Pharmacy Building Glass Repair

U of Ga Pharmacy Building Glass Repair

[pencil on paper]

Someone doing demolition on the street below with dynamite

managed to blow out all the windows in this facing corridor of

the Univ. of Georgia's pharmacy building - the entire corridor 

was filled with thick, heavy glass shards when we got there

Gilley at the Rizzer

Gilley At the Rizzer

[pencil on paper]
private collection

Maureen

Maureen

pencil on handmade paper
[Not For Sale]

Spent a month on this 18x24" portrait of an ex-gf and fellow artist. Friends would come by daily to check on the progress. I used handmade French paper ($5 a sheet in 1970 and more durable like cloth) so I could I erase and redraw as often as needed. I did one eye six times and the mouth four times before getting it all right. Since it's my best portrait (of over 500 I've done), I've never been able to part with it.

Wise Man

Wise Man, pencil
Framed, glass...$500
(Drawing size: 11x15")

This began as a portrait, then became my idea of a prophet or a sage, a wise man. I've used this one for my holiday greeting cards.

Street People Laughing

Street People Laughing, Athens, GA (detail)

1969,  pen and ink on paper... $200

These were some homeless guys I would regularly photograph and pay as models. Most lost their jobs, then their wives left them, so their circumstances were not of their own creating. It was during the Nixon years, yet another recession, high oil prices due to an oil embargo, and he implemented wage and price freezes, which just caused prices to skyrocket when lifted. In my lifetime, I can't remember a time of economic prosperity when a Republican was president other than Eisenhower, and even he warned of the "growing power and influence of the military-industrial complex" in his farewell address to the nation.