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ORIGINAL DRAWINGS

NOTE: These images are all low resolution representations of the original pen & ink drawings, and do not do the drawings justice. High resolution scans of these drawings average about 10 - 20 megabytes each, too big for convenient posting and downloading on this web page.

I started doing pen and ink drawings at least 35 years ago. It was the age of pychedelia, and I was influenced by rock posters and album covers, as well as by artists such as Jack Wise (who produced images of a similar nature by coming at them from a religious and historic direction) and Bob Masse. More recent influences include a continuing love of the work of Jack Wise, also the work of William Perceval Weston, Alistair Bell, Lin-Chien Shih, Paul Goranson, H. Eric Bergman, E.J. Hughes, and Walter J. Phillips.

My drawing production has never been large or consistent. I have just drawn on a whim, as I wished. Thus, for many years I never did a series of drawings, and I hardly ever did more than one at a given size. My preferred medium for many years has been Bristol Board, plate finish, and I still do some drawings on paper purchased 30 years ago. More recently I have tried drawing on illustration board, and on OPUS coated drawing paper. In 2006 I completed 2 large drawing series on onion-skin and on translucent vellum.

In the past few years my drawing production has increased substantially, and I have produced one series of drawings in the same format, another series with the same theme, plus a series of cartoons, a series of Christmas cards, and a number of "one-off" drawings.

Dates on artwork generally adhere to the following format:
     Day / month / year means the artwork was started and completed on that day.
     Month / year means the artwork was started and completed in that month, on more than one day. Alternately, the drawing may have been completed on a single day in that particular month - but I didn't note which day it was.
     Year by itself means the artwork was completed in that year, but may have been started much earlier, or was created over a period of more than one month.

The drawings posted here are just a small sampling of the drawings available for purchase. Please contact Sim Publishing for further information. Additional drawings will be posted on this web site as time and inclination permit.