Pen and Ink Series #61: Face of Letters, LA, 2025

I’m reading a fascinating piece about Paul Klee by Claude Cernuschi called ‘Paul Klee and Language’ (in ‘Paul Klee Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art’, John Sallis editor, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Distributed by The University of Chicago Press 2012). One insight suggested by this article is that Klee’s use of symbols, icons […]

Pen and Ink Series #15: Grayscale Portrait, LA, 2025

Previous sketches in this series were line drawings. In this sketch, I the lines by themselves were not important. They worked together to create the illusion of a grayscale surface.