Gilley at the Rizzer

Gilley At the Rizzer

[pencil on paper]
private collection

Wupatki Indian Ruins

Wupatki Indian Ruins

pencil on paper.....[Not For Sale]

Some of the Native American ruins in the southwest were estimated to be cities housing thousands, like Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, which was thought to be a domed city holding 5000 people. This one in Arizona was merely a castle sized building with maybe 30-50 rooms. It's now being turned into a beautiful sculpture by wind, water, and time. I think this is my favorite drawing that I've done.

New Orleans Levee

New Orleans Levee

watercolor...$1000

I was there for Mardi Gras, and many people camped out along the levee here. The boat in the distance was for people who could afford to take a luxury liner to New Orleans for four days, they slept on the boat. One night it fell below freezing, and the best churches opened their doors for sleeping, so I then slept in the cathedral near Plaza de Armas. This levee at the Governor Nicholls Street Wharf protects the French Quarter from flooding

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.

Navajo Madonna

Navajo Madonna (large version), charcoal pencil..NFS

This was the first of eight drawings of this Navajo girl (from a photograph by American master Edward Curtis in the late 1800's), and was actually done on watercolor paper, intending this to become a watercolor. I have two remaining, six others are in private collections. She has the most incredible eyes I've ever seen, and "eyes are the window to the soul".

Farm in Virginia

Farm in Virginia, watercolor
Unframed (shrinkwrapped)...$1000

This watercolor took me a month, so I guess you could say it was 'overworked', a common problem with realistic art.

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.

Navajo Madonna 2

Navajo Madonna 2 

small version, pencil on paper....NFS
(From a photo by Edward Curtis)

My guide for these portraits are numerous Renaissance portrait drawings, I have books of these and have spent years studying them.

Nigerian Village

Nigerian Village

[watercolor on paper]
from a photograph by Gail Pearson

(Collection of Linda Pace)

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.

Italian Postcard

Italian Postcard

Acrylics on masonite (9x12")...$500

This was an Italian postcard I found in the attic that was sent to a relative in the 1920's, which was a hand tinted black and white photo; great colors I thought.

Sausalito Marina

Sausalito Marina

[acrylic on canvas board]

Private Collection (of Angelique Gulledge)

Mexican Ferry

Mexican Ferry
[watercolor & ink]

(From a photo by Charlton D. McMillan)
Collection of Charlton D. McMillan

He shot this photo on a ferry to Cozamel; I liked the composition and assortment of colors.

Wm. Jose Sinclair : Artwork

This post originally introduced my artwork, and I included a batch of works in one post. I've since reposted them individually so they can be easier referenced and the site will load faster.

I kept this post here because of the comments, I didn't want to lose those.
Thanks to all who posted comments or sent eMails so far, you've been very nice.




This self-portrait, at age 18, was done overnight when we were assigned to do a 'flat painting' in college, which is impossible. As soon as you put anything down with paint, you create space and destroy the two dimensional aspect of a surface. My solution was to do a painting of a flat object, so to signify that it was flat I used a yearbook proof photograph so the realistic painting was of a flat object. My professor said I solved it intellectually, so he loved it.