Studies & Sketches

Migrations IV (in progress, 2024-2025, Oil on Canvas, 48″ x 36″)

after Vieira da Silva - casa atelier
after Vieira da Silva - Sereias (azulejos da Casa-Atelier, estudos, Naufrágio or Historia Tragico-Marítima, exílio transatlantico)

selected studies during an art/research residency at the Casa-Atelier Vieira da Silva, Fundação Arpad Szenes Viera da Silva, 22-20 July 2025

Migrations III (2020-2021, Oil on Canvas, 48″ x 36″)
Migrations II (2019-2020, Oil and charcoal on canvas, 48″ x 36″)
Oil and charcoal on canvas, 12" x 24" x 1.5"
Sonho Azul II, Oil and charcoal on canvas, 12″ x 24″ x 1.5″

Figure Studies (life drawing):

selected longer sketches (2-3 hours in 20 minute stretches)

A few from the stacks of fiigure studies (2 – 40 minute studies in charcoal, pencil, chalk):

Glimpses from pocket sketchbooks:

  • Sketchbook - Notes on Paula Rego's work - CAM Gulbenkian 2020
    Sketchbook – Notes on Paula Rego’s work – CAM Gulbenkian 2020
  • migrating birds, watercolor sketch in notebook
  • migrating birds, watercolor sketch in notebook

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Selected drawings in Portugal, 1990s:

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