Hayman: Titled Series

After completing my Hayman drawing, I used parts of it to create unique, non-representational art images I call 'Kaleidoscopics.' This is the second series of twenty-five that I made a couple of weeks after the first. In this series I used a more complicated technique to create the image. As a result, they have a higher resolution, and can therefore be printed larger. Also, I have titled each of these newer images individually based upon a general first impression.


Limited edition prints of my Titled Series have an image that is 20 inches square on 30 inch square paper. Each are title stamped, signed and numbered up to 100. Approximately 10% more are labeled 'artist proof.'

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Hayman Mandalas

Every little bit of these images is derived from my Hayman drawing. There are two of them, so far. But I intend to make a few more. I have based the general design upon Tibetan Sand Mandalas. I always liked them. Their meticulous assembly is very similar to my drawing style, at least in spirit.

Limited edition prints of my Mandalas have an image that is 20 inches square on 30 inch square paper. Each are title stamped, signed and numbered up to 100. Approximately 10% more are labeled 'artist proof.' 

 

The best places serve them in pairs.

Hayman Eight-Panel Kaleidoscopics

After completing my Hayman drawing, I used parts of it to create unique, non-representational art images I call 'Kaleidoscopics.'

My first numerical series of these limited edition prints have images that are 10 inches square on 20 inch square paper. They have a title stamp, and each design is signed and numbered up to 100. Approximately 10% more are labeled 'artist proof.' 

I have produced twenty-five distinct pieces of art with this technique. View more of them below the page break . . .

Hayman Details

These prints are captured from distinctly different parts of my main drawing. Image dimensions are six by eight inches and are reproduced on sixteen by twenty inch paper. The images are slightly enlarged compared to the original drawing, revealing the grain of my pencil marks.

These five 'open edition' prints are available for $25 each. A full set goes for $100.

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Hayman

This June I finished a large pencil drawing entitled 'Hayman.' It incorporates the June of 2002 Hayman Wildfire smoke plume as I saw it from Denver, as well as sections of my apartment building at the time.  

The original drawing is 6 by 16 inches and was made with a drafting pencil and gum eraser. Reproductions preserve the original dimensions of the art on 18 by 26 inch paper. They have a title stamp, and are signed and numbered up to 500. Approximately 10% more are labeled 'artist proof.' 

Below is a two inch square segment I offer to illustrate the scale, sharpness of line, and smoothness of gradation required in my technique.

 

This drawing was a feat of concentration, as well as endurance. I worked on it off and on over nine years, in three towns, in two states. It's been sneezed on, coughed at, and dropped face down. I caught my kitty cat laying across it once, before I killed her. I remember almost spilling my coffee on it . . .  you could have sold tickets to that one. Most recently it fell out of a wheelbarrow into late snow-melt mud as I packed it away to leave Gothic. That was fun. Thank gods it was wrapped in plastic at the time.

Believe me when I say I never thought I'd see the day.
 
The wildfire depicted in my drawing was a genuinely horrific event in Colorado history, all the more awful because of its nefarious ignition. The image I remember most vividly is the one I incorporated into my drawing . . .  the view out my forth floor apartment window the second or third night of the fire.

That evening I saw a boiling mass of smoke erupting out of the mountains to the southwest of Denver. I thought it was a storm at first, but the more I looked the more I realized that it was moving too fast to be a normal cloud. It was back-lit by the sunset and resembled more a volcanic explosion than a thunderhead. After the sun went down the plume continued to glow red by its own light. To a man from anything-but-wild Indiana, it was an astonishing sight.

It is important to note that there was one civilian casualty as a result of smoke from this wildfire. Even more tragic, five fire fighters died in an automobile rollover accident on their way to help put it out. I dedicate my drawing to these six people as a remembrance. You can read more about them here.

I owe my first numbered print (1/500) to a person I knew in Denver just before I started the final version of the drawing. But I can't find him. Lee Crutchfield . . .  get a hold of me.