Visitor

I live alongside a spring-fed creek, surrounded by woods, despite being only five minutes from downtown. That means there is always a menagerie outside my home studio--songbirds, squirrels, a groundhog or two, deer in abundance, and the occasional surprise, even in winter.

This is a graphite sketch from a few years ago of a stag heading into the woods across our creek. I drew him quickly with a soft pencil on toned paper, emphasizing a few darks, then added lights with chalk.