Earth-currents VII
Pencil on Illustration board 12” x 12”

This type of drawing does not have the initial impact as some of my portraits or surreal work but they are very important in that they show what people miss and don’t see. Personally they act as a buffer between works or as in this case a diversion while working on a major piece that’s overwhelming like my current wip (stripped).

This is part of a sires of works called “observing the insignificant” it’s more about natural abstraction then drawing nature in a botanical sense, although it is very carefully observed and rendered. An artist has the ability to engage someone with an image that they would normal not see and just walk by it, like this three inch piece of turf underfoot. Every day people walk by this insignificant scene, never noticing, never looking, at some point I did. As in abstraction its all about composition, the movement of the individual parts is what draws my interest. Subject matter is abundant if you can truly see the world around you.

Armin