Descending Ashtray

To help keep in practice. I am going to start doing a drawing or a painting study a day for 1 month. So every day I will post a new drawing. I was even thinking about auctioning them off for very affordable prices. If anyone is interested in a drawing that comes up in the next month send an e-mail to gabelueders@gmail.com.

This drawing was done on Sunday down at my father’s farm. It was warm and I sat outside on a rock looking west. I liked the way the branches hooked up at the ends. I was trying not to feel obligated to fill the entire page rather I wanted to focus on one thing that interested me. In this case it was the tree.

Later on in the day I went to work on the sweat lodge and got my Dad’s old beater farm truck stuck in the field. The ground was softer than I thought, even for 4-wheel drive.

I have a feeling Dave is out there somewhere traveling around in foreign countries, going to great museums and drinking good beer. Those of us back here stateside were wondering if we could get an “in the field” report of art on the other side of the ocean.
(Dave:That is if you have access to a computer that is. Hope you are having a good time!)

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13″ x 21″

Oil on Canvas

This is a painting I have been working on this week. It is inspired by photograph that my friend Ryan O’meara took of a landscape in Aruba. I was really drawn to the trunk of the tree. I like the way it is so twisted and spiraling around itself. Ryan said the tree had grown this way from the constant coastal wind blowing in one direction.

This is a puzzle that I made for Brandy. I painted a piece of 1/4″ masonite and wrote a secret message on the back side. Then I cut out the pieces on the scroll saw. The secret message told her where to meet me for dinner. She was surprised and we had a great time.

(After)

This is the same painting after I changed the sky. Can you tell the difference? Do you think it is better then before?

(Before)

This is a study for the mechanical sculpture that I am working on. It is hard to explain how it is going to work within the larger sculpture. Right now this simply shows that when you move the large gear in the center the five smaller gears work simultaneously.