A drawing of a cowboy riding a colorful alien-dinosaur creature.

Alien Cowboy

While staying in a rented house in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico I drew and painted these wonderful great-tailed grackles. They came everyday to our pool to drink and bathe. Plus they fascinated me because of all there many calls we'd hear every morning. I have done a series of them walking, flying, stretching, sneaking up to pieces of food left on outdoor restaurant tables. 

Mexican Great-tailed grackle

A drawing of emblematic Minnesota flora and fauna, brightly colored and arranged by habitat.

Ecosystems of Minnesota

Blue Dragon flying through radio active thunder storm.

Thunder Dragon

Scratchboard drawing of a golden retriever sun bathing laying down. Viewing the left side of the dog looking at something in front of him.

Dusty

A nest with eggs hidden among a zentangle forest.

Hidden nest

I was thinking of technology when I drew this. Is technology helping our advancement?
 Are we losing ourselves to the technology that was invented to make our lives richer?


Communication

A graphite drawing of what appears to be a nude male figure from the waist up, on a dark field of expressive textural marks with pinpoints of light.  His hands up over his head, a tangle of fabric like a scarf swirling around and obscuring his head and cowboy hat.

Night Spangled, Stars Unfurling Cowboy

There are three enlarged abstract faces with hair filling the entire page, they have settle contemplative facial expressions. Two are on the top half of the page and one is in the center of the bottom half. 

Curious 

Kill Bill Toucan juxtaposed on a black background, posed to show off the colorful bill of red, magenta, aqua, green with black borders. The black eye is encircled with yellow, the fluffy body feathers are yellow as well with chartreuse interspersed, the tail and legs are purposely obscured. 

Keel Billed Toucan

An ink painted partial squid extending it's tentacles 

Of Murky Depths 

"Here I am, existing in amongst some beautiful grasses. As I look out above me, I am wondering where I am - and where I am going. Colors and textures comfort me. Fireflies too!"

Wonderings

A contemporary still-life created with a cubistic influence and earth tones that offers a wish for tranquility.

A Toast to Tranquility

What do you see?

A painting of an off-centered kitchen counter containing four pieces of bread - laid out to make sandwiches - apples, apple peels, cheese, markers, cups and dirty dishes surrounded by negative space. framed by a gold plywood baroque style frame.

Peels

 wrote this description, thinking of how I would describe what we see in this drawing to a person who can not see the image but can hear my voice: 
This is a scan of two pages from the sketchbook of the artist. When fully open, the size of the two pages is 10 x 15 inches. The paper to the right is the one with the drawing. At the bottom of this page, taking half of the page space horizontally, you see a quick sketch of a 4 X 4 grid of rectangles drawn fast and freely by hand with a thin black marker. Inside eight of these rectangles are quick line drawings of portraits of different people, sketched with the same thin black marker as the grid. The drawings focus on each individual's expression and body language, rather than attempt to achieve a realistic accuracy of their facial features. 

In the upper part of the page, slightly to the left and taking about 2/3 of the space, there is another portrait. The drawing is done in pencil and filled in with various shades of gray markers. The person in the portrait has a short beard, short black curly hair, a T-shirt with vertical stripes and one eye is half shut with both eyebrows slightly raised expressing a deep intellectual urgency. Next to this portrait, there are a few words written in pencil (from the top down): 

Wolfgang Stark
Now community is very important 
project
New bank for communit
ideas
and 
Solutions 

Now community is very important

An illustration of a person looking at their smartphone and experiencing anxiety about COVID-19.

Anxiety

Man playing trombone on streets of New Orleans in French Quarter.

Street Musician, New Orleans

Simple cat with a outlined comprised of the colors pink, purple, and blue.

Outlined Cat

A drawing of a young, grey shaded Somali woman wearing a bright blue, silk hijab draped over her head and across her shoulders 

Blue and Beautiful

A charcoal drawing of three glass bottles surrounded by drapery

Glass Still Life

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

A young girl in the wind at her home on top of a mountain in the Southwest morning light.

Clarkie

Three chainmail-clad warriors stand before an ancient draug embedded in a tree in a gloomy, pale forest. One warrior is offering a returned sword that once belonged to the draug. 

The druźina return the ancestral sword to the ancient draugr

A pencil drawing of my white/gray cat Bailey.  

Bailey

Tiger eye

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

A silhouette of a pacing cougar in black on palest pink and blue, with forest trees, shrubs and logs in black standing, surrounding the cougar above and below. 

The Cougar at Nightfall

A circular labyrinth of bright and colorful abstract shapes that overlap with one another to create additional colors. These shapes mark the path upon which you will travel as you follow the yellow "lights" along the way. While the path winds around, it is open, transparent, therapeutic, and also energizing. It will lead to a peaceful and positive place. Inspired by the therapy art and art therapy of California-based artist and music composer Jo Verdis. 

Follow the Light (or Windy Path)

A handmade book depicting an image of a shaded hypercube (cube inside a cube) on the lefthand page. On the righthand page, the title "God of Geometrics" is up against the fold in the pages, and on the far right is a poem that reads "shadow of time / i know i cannot see your face / but we all obey your logic / i have not counted / every line, but / they are answers to / questions / we've never asked". 

ODD GOD

A portraiture drawing of a lone doll, against a hazy black charcoal background.

Alien Cowboy, 2020

Mike Rominski