All Zhenne & Everything

Bird Saviour Oil Pastel

On the last day of July in 2001, I decided to put away needle and thread for the entire month of August and just draw spontaneously everyday.  A friend had given me a rich amount of archival museum-quality ragboard...I got out my oil pastels and began drawing without any preconceived idea of what the image would be.  I drew everyday and into the night.  My intention was not to make art but to engage in a kind of wordless journaling.  It was a real journey...buffalo and waterfalls and portraits of imaginary men and women and trees and treasure-maps and boats and human hearts and this bird saint. 

Buffalo After A Blizzard in Morning Sun Oil Pastel

Here is another of the oil pastel drawings I made in August of 2001.

"Indian Summer Buffalo" Oil Pastel Drawing by Zhenne Wood

 

Another Peek Inside My Art Studio

It's not all about cakes in my art studio!  It's also about buffalo...and buffalo woman...and nests...and turtles and birds...more works in progress...

On the wall is an unfinished oil pastel drawing of a buffalo which I have decided to leave unfinished - I like this one that way...and so does the person who bought it!  I just need to frame it and ship it.  Also on the wall are two bird nests I made and a little beaded and painted shield I made...on the pedestal are: 1. an unfinished colored pencil sketch of a flicker 2. A buffalo doll I am working on 3. A bird in a nest of my own design. The standing figure is an evolving piece and the bamboo pole leaning against the wall is a kind of totemic thing I am putting together which one of my blue turtles is climbing.

copyright 2006/2010 Zhenne Wood
 

VAMPIRIANA, a Vintage Original Drawing/Painting by Zhenne Wood

I just listed this original illustration which I created in 1980 in my etsy shop this morning.  It is not a print, but the original illustration done with india ink, gouache, colored pencils.

The copyright info in these photos does not appear on the original which is signed and dated by me. 

 Here's the link to read more about it :

BLACK ON BLACK:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=42582387

BLACK ON BLACK:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=42582387