Drawings
PAINTING STUDIES: I want my drawings to be as energetic and adventurous as my paintings and to influence and inform each other. Charcoal becomes painterly when it gets wetted with a brush, or smeared with a finger on a drawing, and I have developed a practice of drawing with soft willow vine charcoal directly on top of my oil painting canvases. I attempt to draw landscapes like van Gogh, and figures like Raphael. I studiously copy them mark-by-mark frequently for practice. I take the advice of my teacher Wayne Thiebaud who once told me, “learn from the masters".




ALEXANDRA THE GREAT, 2023, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in |66x46 cm


DREAM DANCE, 2024, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in |66x46 cm




Equi-pose, 2024, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in |66x46 cm


ELEN SKETCHES #6, Pencil on paper, 14x11 in | 66x46 cm
BLANK STARE, 2023, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in |66x46 cm.
Elen's Pose, 2023, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in |66x46 cm






ELEN SKETCHES #32, 2023, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in |66x46 cm.
EQUI-POSE, 2023, Pencil on paper, 14x11 in | 66x46 cm
ELEN SKETCHES #33, 2023, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in |66x46 cm




BLANK STARE, 2022, Pencil on paper, 14x11 in | 66x46 cm






BLINDING LIGHT, 2023, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in | 66x46 cm
HOLDING MY LAST BREATH, 2023, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in |66x46 cm
DAVIDA, 2023, Pencil on paper, 14x11 in | 66x46 cm


GILGAMESHA, 2023, Charcoal on paper, 26x18 in | 66x46 cm


ECSTATIC LIGHT, 2022, Graphite/ paper, 14x11 in | 66x46 cm


LULLABY POSE, 2023, Charcoal on paper, 24x18 in | 61x46 cm
ELEN SKETCHES #3, 2022, Pencil on paper, 14x11 in | 66x46 cm