As the trees reach their peak — the beauty of the moment — the winds begin to sweep away.  Before fall comes firmly planted in the ground they dance in tune to the winds — they are Wind Swept — they dance in harmony to nature 

Wind Swept

A drawing of a female figure, rising up from a striped pillow with a dark background.

Ellen Rising

A profile portrait of Sophie Scholl surrounded by leaflets. A large white flower. White color pencil on black paper.

The White Rose

Symmetrical geometric line drawing on dotted grid paper of intersecting blue and red lines with varying crosshatch patterns within formed interlocking shapes

AQ' from Book 1

Using pencil, the drawing shows a dragon, with a regal squared jaw looking up.  The wing on the right is dark, cast in a shadow, with the left wing open revealing a sharp talon on the end.

Moon

Silhouette of a Peony 

A drawing of a girl, with blue eyes and fair skin, wearing a pink shirt and a gold skirt, her hair in a ponytail, standing next to a full bathtub and grimacing, while her white cat with gray and brown spots, sits nearby, next to a trail of muddy paw prints, and raises one muddy paw up, with the words "you're not making me" in a thought bubble above its head. 

Bathing the Cat

A graphite pencil drawing of three honeycrisp apples nestled together.  Two side by side with the third centered behind.

Honeycrisps

A swirling ink drawing on paper of various hands, walls, wire and rocks - exploring themes of oppression occupation and division.

Hands

A dancer who stands tall on a small stage to the chaos and squiggles that surround her in black and white.

Dancer in Chaos

Sleeping loki

A drawing of isolated people floating in a kite-like structure over waves. 

Quarantine quandary

This is a picture of Mickey Mouse in a stained glass style.

Stained glass Mickey Mouse

A small sketch of the face of a woman In her mid-sixties. I can only draw from my imagination what her true appearance is today. I’ve not seen her for close to twenty years. A loose sketch...using a dark charcoal pencil and a yellow-orange crayon...and using an erasure to blend and model. 

Old Friend 

Child’s silhouette composed with black outlines of a cage fence 

Children don’t belong in cages 

A pen drawing of a surreal idea that women are from Venus

Planet Venus

A bird's head painted in tones of sepia and white looks off the page to the left.

Bird

A sketch of a brown and white horse wearing a green coat and looking over a grey fence.

A surrealistic portrait including vines that are growing out of the fingertips, a wide range of color, and a bright golden background.

The Golden Terrace

A portrait of a man whose expression reveals the inner angst of the human condition. Black and gray on white paper, it is timeless. Its relevance transcends the limits of age, race, or gender. 

Everyman 1

A pen drawing in black and white ink on brown paper. The subject is a group of 5 lady slippers, the yellow variety (Cypripedium parviflorum).

Lady slippers 

This drawing is done on a simple piece of white paper with graphite pencil. It is a play off of a Norman Rockwell piece of a young girl on the run, palette and easel in hand, depicted as a modern day self portrait of the artist.

Little Artist On The Run

A drawing of a pair of beat-up green converse sitting on a black table with a dashed spiral pattern in the background.

Through Youth

Three big red Honeycrisp apples on brown branches with several green leaves. Four of the leaves have brown spots. These apples were grown in a Minnesota Landscape Arboretum garden. They were delicious!

Honeycrisp Apples at the ARB

Three hour sketch of live model in Spanish dress holding vegetables.

Maria

A papercut with black and white paper. The shadows are cast by the black paper onto the white paper behind. The images evoke veins in a leaf, with an open circle  at the middle representing beginning and ending : absence and presence

Framing the Light Between

A graphite drawing of an elderly woman completing a crossword puzzle. 

Nana

Side view of a trans-angel (the emotional self portrait of the artist,)arms and wings outstretched, rising to the stars from earth and bones. Razor wire intangibles the figure but is ineffective at holding the figure back. 5 pointed stars fall from the figure’s open left hand, and rises from the figure’s open right hand.

"Through Hardship: The Stars"

Graphite and wash drawing of a hand isolated against a plain background with graphite wash splatters.

Hands #3

A double spread illustration in a handmade book depicted a large red worm with human teeth looming over a young child.  In the background lie the bodies of the worm's previous victims, including a corpse with a television for a head, a dismembered torso, the head of a monster, and a man impaled by a sledgehammer.  The words "In Human Gore Imbued" are written on the righthand side of the page.

Wind Swept, 2018

Linda Davis