Salvaged Sketches

When our basement flooded, Mark was able to move most of our stored items out of harms way. Unfortunately, a box was overlooked, and even more unfortunate: it was the box holding all of my painting and sketch books. The paintings were all fine, though mildly discolored.

The sketch books were pretty soggy. Luckily they were not mucky--their cardboard box/shell saved them from that doom.

I spent sometime this last weekend peeling the sketches apart and laying them out to dry. It was fun to see them all again. (And I felt a little like I was in "Titanic," with my art being discovered and salavaged.) :)


















































These are some of my favorites:





















This set is from a college art class when we had a live model:





















I don't really know what this is from. Just a random thought from my mind, I suppose:





















Here I was visually expressing my experience of Jean Paul Sarte's "The Room." I did one of the "The Wall," too, but it's not pictured here.