Rosie’s Angel

Mary drew this charcoal and pencil sketch in 2009 for her childhood friend Rosie who was battling lung cancer and was in serious need of a guardian angel. The sketch was based on a photo of a Rastafarian on the island of Grenada.  Mary called the sketch...

Gypsy

Mary drew this sketch at a workshop taught by Tony Ryder in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2007.  The sketch was meant to be an under-painting for an oil portrait.  The model decided, on an impulse, to wrap a scarf around her head which led Mary to give her sketch the title...

Study of an Older Man

Mary attended a J.D. Hillberry workshop in Denver where she learned to draw realistic pencil and charcoal drawings of older people with wrinkled skin.  She learned that an artist needs a keen understanding of the way that light bends around the curves and wrinkles of...