Original artwork description:

Serving as the lead juror in a first degree murder case was the inspiration for this drawing. The defendent's apparent emotionless presence horrified me.

Drawings Statement: I want my drawings to be as energetic and adventurous as my paintings and to influence and inform each other. Charcoal becomes painterly when it gets wetted with a brush, or smeared with a finger on a drawing, and I have developed a practice of drawing with soft willow vine charcoal directly on top of my oil painting canvases. I attempt to draw landscapes like van Gogh, and figures like Raphael. I studiously copy them mark-by-mark frequently for practice. I take the advice of my teacher Wayne Thiebaud who once told me, “learn from the masters".

Shipping: I used the highest quality soft willow vine charcoal that I can find and draw on archival, acid free paper. This artwork is offered UN-FRAMED and it is shipped rolled in a tube. This makes it significantly more affordable and, provides you with your own frame choices, and is safer to transport. I use for my work standard frame sizes so providing your own should be easy.

Master of Visual Art Degree - MFA, Maryland Institute, Mt. Royal School of Painting.
Bachelor Arts Degree – BA, University of California, Davis

Primary Influences: Renaissance; Raphael figure drawings; Post-Impressionists, Van Gogh Landscapes.

Darren Jekel is married and fathers two daughters in northern California’s wine growing region.

Materials used:

charcoal on paper

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