“Evening, Subway, A Senior Couple” 18 × 24 inches, Crayon on paper
This is a handmade, original work of art NOT A PRINT and NOT AI GENERATED
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This is another drawing from the subway series I’m planning. I’ve been collecting images of subway interiors and sleeping people, piecing them together into scenes that I can explore through drawings and paintings. Here I’ve reused the backdrop from the smaller “Companions on the Subway,” but this time I went pretty large. At 18 × 24 inches, the sheet is twice the height and width of that earlier drawing.
The figures and their relationship to the setting have changed. One sits more upright, with an arm around the other, whose head rests against their shoulder. Their bodies lean together, and the overlapping arms and clothing connect them into a single group. Compared with the close view of the two suited men in the smaller drawing, this version gives more room to the seated bodies and the surrounding subway car.
The upright pole and window frames establish a firm structure on the left. Against those verticals, the leaning head, shoulders and bent arms create a different rhythm. The darker windows and trousers help organize the drawing, while the lighter shirts leave broad areas of paper visible. Quick lines describe the hair and faces, and patches of grainy crayon give weight to the clothing and the bodies underneath it.
I’m interested in using this setting more than once. Keeping some of the surroundings familiar lets me change the people, their clothes and the ways they sit or lean against one another. I’ve imagined both same-sex and heterosexual couples in related poses as the series develops.
Drawing gives me a way to work through those possibilities. Here, the larger format makes the arrangement of the bodies and the marks describing them more prominent. I can explore companionship through the simple physical details of a head resting on a shoulder, an arm around another person and two people sharing a seat.
“Evening, Subway, A Senior Couple” 18 × 24 inches, Crayon on paper
This is a handmade, original work of art NOT A PRINT and NOT AI GENERATED
FREE SHIPPING Shipping takes 3–4 Weeks This ships from San Carlos, California (The San Francisco Bay Area). I use UPS and sometimes US Post.
This is another drawing from the subway series I’m planning. I’ve been collecting images of subway interiors and sleeping people, piecing them together into scenes that I can explore through drawings and paintings. Here I’ve reused the backdrop from the smaller “Companions on the Subway,” but this time I went pretty large. At 18 × 24 inches, the sheet is twice the height and width of that earlier drawing.
The figures and their relationship to the setting have changed. One sits more upright, with an arm around the other, whose head rests against their shoulder. Their bodies lean together, and the overlapping arms and clothing connect them into a single group. Compared with the close view of the two suited men in the smaller drawing, this version gives more room to the seated bodies and the surrounding subway car.
The upright pole and window frames establish a firm structure on the left. Against those verticals, the leaning head, shoulders and bent arms create a different rhythm. The darker windows and trousers help organize the drawing, while the lighter shirts leave broad areas of paper visible. Quick lines describe the hair and faces, and patches of grainy crayon give weight to the clothing and the bodies underneath it.
I’m interested in using this setting more than once. Keeping some of the surroundings familiar lets me change the people, their clothes and the ways they sit or lean against one another. I’ve imagined both same-sex and heterosexual couples in related poses as the series develops.
Drawing gives me a way to work through those possibilities. Here, the larger format makes the arrangement of the bodies and the marks describing them more prominent. I can explore companionship through the simple physical details of a head resting on a shoulder, an arm around another person and two people sharing a seat.
