Here are a few portraits I did in one minute each (OK, probably a few minutes in most cases) while waiting in line dealing with a stolen passport. I completed about 70 of them which gives you a sense of the time it took to get to the front of the line.

Portraits in pencil and brush pen, Moleskine pocket book (3.5″ x 5.5″ each); all completed on the same basic grid. Click on the images to enlarge.

A new page for “Drowning in venice”. Ink and watercolor on paper, 11″ x 17″.

A few autoportraits for an upcoming story. Ink and watercolor on paper, 11″ x 17″ each. Click on the images to enlarge.

Drawings made on a London Heathrow to San Francisco flight. The last two are photoshop composite of the previous sketches and of a few others completed during the flight -what they call “postproduction” in the movies.

“Insemination”, ballpoint on paper.

Hello blog; Another Sunday, and a new page of “Drowning in Venice” inked and abundantly splattered. I had quite a go on that one, and it turned out good. This was one of these drawings where in the end you just have to risk the whole thing and engulf the composition and main character into a wash of china ink. It’s random to a large extent and it worked on this version and not so well on another one.

What’s with all these drowning pictures anyway? Well I went through the rinse cycle and nearly drowned several times surfing here in San Francisco so it does bring back some good memories.

Ink and watercolor on paper, 11″ x 17″.