Iowa Haystacks

 

I drew this piece in tribute to the Agricultural heart of America, Iowa. While creating this drawing, I kept thinking about the legendary painter of Iowa landscapes, Grant Wood. This is part of a series called World Tour - in which I use pages from an old atlas as canvases - painting images relating to the place on each map.

Signed prints of this piece are available here, in my Etsy shop.

World Tour Continued...

Here are impressions from the second leg of my world tour (inspired by a dilapidated old atlas). In case you missed my first dispatch from this journey, you can catch up right here.

Inspired  by Vilhelm Hammerchøi's Young Woman Sewing

After a Jose Posada 'calaveras (skull) cartoon'

After Edouard Manet's Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets

Ode to Grant Wood

Inspired by a Maori rock carving by Matahi Whakataka-Brightwell

Thanks for viewing.

Prints of these pieces are available for purchase here.

You can view more installments of my World Tour here, here and here!

World Tour

For decades I've been holding onto an old dilapidated atlas. It seemed to be calling out to me from the bookshelf, "You've got got the whole world at your fingertips. Go ahead, explore." So I finally honored this advice (with ample assistance from sumi ink). I hope you enjoy these impressions from the first leg of my journey!

A tribute to Polynesian ink (drawn with sumi ink)

A view of Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" on the Great Salt Lake

Ode to Peter Paul Rubens

A Veiled Society?

"Wall of Skulls" at Chichen Itza, a Mayan Temple

Inspired by Constantin Brâncuși's "The Kiss

I'd love to your thoughts on this essay. What images have left an impression on you in your travels? Stay tuned for more posts from the second leg of my journey!

Prints of all these pieces are available for purchase here.

You can view my entire World Tour collection here!