Two more pastels for

Inspired By...

This one is titled "Not A Fairy" and was inspired by

Josilyn Bouffard.

The title came from her note on the original drawing.

This piece was inspired by Sophie Unkauf. I'm not exactly sure what it is, as Sophie did not include a title. I will have to ask her about it the next time I see her.

So far, this project has been a lot of fun. I have picked out my next three drawings

and hope to have the posted soon.

Right now I am working on a larger still life titled "Putting All My Ducks in a Row"

This is the start of a project that began with my pastel painting of one

of my grandson Alex's creature drawings. I got the idea to have kids, and

some adults do drawings from their imagination while they were at the opening

for my solo show at the Shirt Factory Gallery.

I ended up with nearly 35 drawings from that opening, and now I am starting

to work on each of them. The first three are shown below.

I call this project:

Inspired by...

"Happy Alien in Space"

Drawing on the left is by Alexander Francis

My pastel is on the right

"Candy Striped Sea-zebra" 

Drawing on the left by Aveleen Unkauf

"Asian Chicken Shrimp"

Drawing on the left by Maddie Unkauf

Each of the young (and not so young) artists that have contributed to this idea

have inspired me with their creativity and joy of drawing.