Rabbititus studies.

I like this direction...

...now to work on movement.

Line composition studies.

I was into the simple line for a time.  I felt that I could design a line that eludes to multiple subjects.  

Here are a few of those older illustrations where I was working out that idea.

Thanks for taking a look at these...

...they are simply studies but i turned them all into cool oil paintings.

Word composition studies.

These studies were all improvisational.  While woking on my poetry volumes I found myself just zoning out sketching out these ideas.  I didn't turn these into oil paintings, but they ruled the eventual series of Word compositions a few weeks later.