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“Last Days Of Fall”
15x11in.
Mixed media on paper.
Kate Delancel Schultz 2019
“Coral Reef”
15x11in.
Mixed media on paper.
Kate Delancel Schultz 2019
A Little Something
7 x 5 in
Mixed Media on paper
Kate Delancel Art 2024
Sketchbook time
Kate Delancel 2024
4.5in. x 5.5in.
Mixed media on paper.
Kate Delancel Art 2024
Ocean Sweetness 🌸🌊
The "correct way" to veiw my art 😂 close enough to see the swirls of color and the movement of the paintbrush 🥰🖌️
Pastel, on smooth, 300gsm paper, approx 85mm x 100mm.
A memory and feeling from a camping trip on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides.
Sky and sea and time stretching out forever.
Pastel drawing, approx 97mm x 51mm.
The Isle of Kerrera from Oban.
Early morning, Spring sun on an island still brown from winter.
Pastel drawing, approx 115mm x 41mm.
“Calm Water to Kerrera.”
Peace and tranquility while walking to catch the ferry from Oban to the Isle of Kerrera, Scotland.
So very lonely
Black sharpie on paper
Los Angeles 2016
De Kooning once said, "In order for art to work the finished piece needs to at least look better than the original blank canvas."
I think de Kooning said that.
Maybe I imagined it.
In that case I said it.
I don't know.
The Rolling Stones- 2000 Lightyears from home
Early mornings
black sharpie and water color
Westwood 1986
Let me try to explain myself.
When I was a young man I loved illustration.
Perhaps the two illustrators who had the greatest influence on me were Aubrey Beardsley and Jean Giraud aka Moebius. Both artist drew with a fine line and I tried to emulate that.
Here's an old drawing of mine.
pencil drawing
Venice CA 1978
So back then I saw myself as an illustrator.
Then sometime around 1980 I was introduced to Abstract Expressionism and I had an epiphany...
Could I approach Abstract Expressionism with an illustrator's line?
A new world opened up to me and I started having fun with my drawing.
And then, for about 35 years I never drew an identifiable object.
No joke.
Still Life
black sharpie
Westwood 1985
Attitude Adjustment
pen, colored pencil and watercolor
Duarte CA 1996
Time never began
black sharpie on bond paper
San Francisco 2003
Dan's drawing
black sharpie
Rosemead 2011
i did a lot of these drawings. And I really enjoyed making them. For over thirty years I completely liberated myself from the rigors of drawing something that had to look like something. And I loved it. But then...
Sometime around 2015 I returned to illustration. Why? I'll be honest with you, I started to miss it.
Call it full circle but that's where I'm at now.
I still treasure my line though.
little boxes
black sharpie on paper
Los Angeles 2019
Thank you Aubrey and Jean.
Aubrey Beardsley
Jean Giraud aka Moebius
Aluminum can #1
Watercolor and pen
Los Angeles 2016
A friend of mine once told me that she liked Mark Rothko because she liked how he applied paint.
That got me thinking.
What I need, I thought, is a simple image to serve as a vehicle for the application of paint.
With this thought in mind I began painting fantasy aluminum cans.
Some of them turned out very pretty.
Here's another one.
Aluminum can #2
Watercolor and pen
Los Angeles 2016
These days I'm not so ambitious. When I want to apply pigment I just freakin' apply it.
All blue
Colored pencil and alcohol
Calbayog City 2024
T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Nougbo Vehou
This really blows me away. Going back I'm finding that I like my colored pieces better in black & white than in the original color. SMH
This really bothers me.
Next day...
It's not that I don't like the drawing's color. It's more that the drawing becomes lost in the colors and it becomes flat
Back when I did this drawing I wanted my drawings to have no there there. Nothing to suggest a shape other than the image in its entirely.
But now looking at it I want something to define something.
I'm going to do another one of these to show you what I mean.
Kind of Pink
Colored pencil
Los Angeles 2015
A blue, so long ago
colored pencil and black sharpie
Calbayog City 2024
The Philippine Sea is a deep almost violet blue.
It came to me in a dream once.
And now I'm here.
But I'm not there.
And isn't that where I've always been?
This drawing is pretty much done, but it's not done.
In any case, I've moved on to the next piece.
Write that on my tombstone.
Samar, Philippines 2024
Akae Beka - The Earth is the Lord
Untitled
Black sharpie on paper
Los Angeles 2015
I really like this drawing.
It has a relaxed natural flow. And it has a lovely texture.
What more do you need man?
I know the signature is upside down.
But so is the drawing.
Destiny - Zero 7
Nothing is permanent (in progress)
Colored pencil and sharpie
Calbayog City 2024
A new one.
Not done yet but it's starting to take on character.
When I do this kind of drawing I keep getting the feeling of painting myself into a corner. But I keep reminding myself that there are no wrong answers and that accidents are gifts. Also I've discovered that I can somewhat erase colored pencil so nothing is permanent.
Nothing is permanent.
Nothing is permanent
Colored pencil and sharpie
Calbayog City 2024
The Tao is an image that has no form - Lao Tsu
My daughter had asked for a drawing with more pink in it. I didn't realize it for a few days but in the dim light of my study one of the pencils that I thought was pink was actually tangerine. As I drew I had been appreciating a richness to the fields of pink and it was only when I took it out into the sunlight that I realized that the richness was due to the glow of the tangerine.
Life is full of surprises.
I believe this drawing is complete. It conveys the promise of form without demand and yet it takes my eye on a journey. I like that.
My drawings are really never meant to be any more than something nice to look at.
On a separate note my brother said he liked it more when it still had some white areas.
Maybe..
Time for coffee.
Apocalypse - Cigarettes after sex
Mystery and manifestation
Black sharpie on paper
Los Angeles 2022
Mystery and manifestation
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
- Lao Tsu
Zero 7 - Warm Sound