Crossing the Event Horizon

           I apologize that I have been infrequent in posting the past few weeks. I recently started work at the Santa Fe Opera. I have been so totally consumed by my work painting, and in my journeys from New York, that the digital world has fallen by the wayside. In light of the new adventures and experiences I chose to post this piece. When making it I was considering how no matter where we go, we carry where we've been. 

"The things they carried"

Dip Pen and India ink on Bristol, 19x24" 

Garrett Ball

(detail)

Howling

I generally like to display this work next to another work, posted previously,  "Peek-a-boo." Mostly because they show polar views on women. They were made at roughly the same time, but one depicts women as sweet and misunderstood. This piece shows feelings that women are deceptive and cruel. But I figure there must be at least half as many types of women as there are types of people, and I hope one day to find time to draw them all. 

"Wolf Like Me"

Dip Pen and India ink on Bristol, 19x24" 

Garrett Ball

Detail of "Wolf Like Me"

transcendence

I recently took a new batch of portfolio photos, so look forward to plenty of new works. 

"Transcendence"

dip pen and India ink on bristol 19x24"

Garrett Ball

That Crunchy Copaesthetic

The model for this piece was a friend of mine, Amanda Kelly.The anatomical drawing came to me as a metaphor for introspection.  I wanted to make a piece that was beautiful calm and serene.

"short term memory"

India ink on bristol 19x24"

Garrett Ball

The Tasmanian Tiger

While working on  a few pieces regarding endangered animals I decided to include a piece that included the extinct tasmanian tiger. It was a species endemic to Tasmania that was hunted into extinction in the 20th century, only few photos survive of this wolf species. I wanted to use the piece to show defiance in the face of fear and mortality.

"Cessation"

India ink and dip pen on bristol 19x24"

By, Garrett Ball