paper sculpture - Caryatid

Testing ideas about bringing the last paintings to sculpture.

Caryatid

The last in a series of some ten different figures.

The Acrobats

The Acrobats, 2010
Chalk and pastel on paper
36" x 48"

During the summer of 2009, I started a series of pictures called "The Acrobats". I had been working with illustrations of Yoga poses that I found really interesting and decided to combine three figures into one picture. While alluding to myself and my wife and child, I wanted to make a picture that was more about the flexibility of the figures and how the tangled forms work together as one design element. This drawing is one of 5 large drawings that have led to numerous smaller paintings.